Anyone out here have some cool animal encounter stories? I kind of want to fight a mountain lion and I want to know how fucked you think I would be. I also want to know how I would go about finding one. I'll share a story of my own to get started>be me>hunting in Arizona mountains with gramps and uncle>We pull into a small glade to eat lunch>There's a little "pond", not much more than a dirty puddle honestly >Start to hear some galloping sounds>Look around confused, we can't really see anything>A minute or two a group of wild horses come to drink the water>Surprised how soon we could hear them>They're kind of nervous, but eventually start to drink>They probably should be a little scared lol, my uncle's dog very clearly wants to chase them down but we keep him restrained>Cool moment, we just vibe and watch the horsesLet's year (you)rs, anon
>>2788773I was backpacking alone in the mountains in southern AZ when I heard a strange grunting sound from behind a bush. It turned out to be a huge black bull (bovine) with its dick almost touching the ground.
>>2788773>be me>texas>go out to some dual pond water reservoir >see some white tails>pretty nice>trail leading up to the lakes is pretty massive and there are a lot of other places to explore>spend about an hour just vibing and walking around>final get to the ponds>take some pics>walk back>hour walk back to the car>Fucking hogs across the river that i didnt see squeals and runs away scaredthing was massivei dont blame it for running awayid run away too if i saw me sneak up on myselfi was unarmed tooi think i got lucky and that it got scared.Im october i had a second """encounter""" while bow hunting except the hogs just looked at ussnorted and then walked awaythere was no stand off
>>2788796>huge black bull (bovine)
>>2788773>be me>go camping with friends>after a good night go to sleep>get woken up around 4am by a very deep thud>it repeats, getting faster and faster, like a big engine trying to start, but it's deep thudding that seems to come from the ground i'm sleeping on>i picture a cow or bull or elk outside my tent stamping the ground>it repeats the start-up cycles for about 5 mins then stops>go back to sleepi found out later it was a grouse.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrJghW-WEk
>>2788796probably in a similar place to where I was then. >>2788816yeaaaaaaah. out is a cut above but it's still 4chan>>2788814do you reckon your bow or carry gun could take down a hog if it charged at close range or would you be in trouble>>2788822how'd you find out? did yall trail cam your own campsite?
>>2788773>Be me>In Nepal, on my way to climb Ama Dablam>Trekking through the Himalayas>Finally get off the crowded Everest Base Camp route and into some truly beautiful mountain trails. >That's when the food poisoning kicks in. Every day becomes a desperate battle not to shit myself. Altitude sickness is nothing in comparison.>Day three since the food poisoning hit finds me squatting behind a boulder, spraying last night's dhal like an Italian grandfather pressure-washing his driveway, while my watch beeps warnings about low blood oxygen levels.>Hear someone stumbling over the rocky ground towards me>Shout that this boulder is taken.>They stumble closer, sounds like multiple people.>Warn them again.>And again.>If they step into the firing line, I can't be responsible for what happens.>I hear someone climbing onto the boulder.>I hear another person walking around the boulder.>I look up.>I see them.>It's a pair of fucking yaks. >One standing on top of the boulder looking down at me. Another beside me, about 10 inches away. >Continue shitting in waves for another 5 minutes as they stand there, chewing their cud and snorting in my face until I finish my business.>Make it back to the trail. Catch up to my wife who's stopped a polite distance down the trail for me to catch up. >"Hey, anon, did you see those two wild yaks? They walked right by us!"
>>2788826>how'd you find out?Talking to people after the fact. Not many things make a thumping sound out there.
This is copy pasta but it's OC I posted a few years back:>be me>living in my rural redneck hometown for a couple years while "between things">really into camping, nature photography, field recording>one summer night decide to record the wildlife at a swamp in a 1000-acre nature reserve a few miles down the road>hop on my mountainbike>huff down there just at twilight >lock my bike to a tree and take my pack of gear into the woods>dark and spoopy, no moon at all this night>hike about 30mins through the reserve until I get to the swamp>hastily setup all my recording gear at the edge of the swamp; so full of frogs and crickets and insects and beavers and birds, perfect>once it's recording it's basically completely dark out>hike about 15mins away from the recorder so I don't interfere with any wildlife>get to the big rock™, a giant boulder about the size of a single car garage>scuttle up the side and sit atop to just wait in silence, want to get at least an hour+ recording>dark as fuck, can't see my hand in front of my face, looking up through the trees I can see a few stars peeking through, that's it>after about 30mins or so I get bored, pull out a ciggie>flick my lighter>there's a big fucking lion face right in front of me>HISSSSS>it runs away, crashing through the woods>a fucking mountain lion was skulking up the boulder about to fucking neck me>turn all my lights on and book it back to the recorder>packup as fast as I can, still takes like 45mins before I get back to my bike, horrified I'm being stalked the whole timea couple days later pic related was in the local paper, spotted about 1 mile from where I was
>>2788826>do you reckon your bow or carry gun could take down a hog if it charged at close range or would you be in troublei shoot a 50lb so yes. I dont carry a secondary firearm(yet) but the person i went hunting with has a .40 s&w.
>>278886150lb recurve*
>>2788773>be me>half Swedish/Danish>at my grandmothers farm (Swedish side)>check the gate to the goats dont escape again>casually walk down the road to the local fishing spot>spend my time there, as you do>start walking back to my grandmas farm>female moose come out the brushi am now in way more danger then i can comprehend, i was like 10-12 years old>i just think the moose is being cute and wants to follow me home>get to grandmas farm>she lets me in, i tell her about the friendly moose i just met>her first response is grabbing and racking the rifle by the door
>be me>peacefully sleeping inna tent>weird noise, something bumping me tent>VERY stern man tells me to come out, slowlyapparently i was sleeping where the police and the army train their dogs and it was just a cute little german shepard pupalso one time i was just sleeping under a tarp, some lady lost control of her cocker spaniel and it woke me up by licking my face like it was ice cream
>>2788814pic rela bridge that was thereneed to make plans to do mini hikes again now that the weather in texas is a lot cooler
>>2788897no fucking clue why that came out sidewayshate phone postingit's over
>>2788773>want to know how I would go about finding onegood luck. Most people use hounds to track them. Without hounds you need to get lucky and find fresh tracks in the snow/mud or a fresh kill but even then they will see/smell you a mile away. They roam far and wide.>be me>backpacking in Yellowstone by myself>sit down in a pleasant meadow by the edge of a creek to eat lunch>big bull mooses meaders out of the brush/marshy area about 30yards away>sees me, cares not, keeps feeding>I sit and eat my lunch and watch this big dude for 20 minutes. >I get up to go and he tiptoes across the creek and fucks of. the end.picrel was cool too but technically I was /in
>>2788927cute dog
>>2788773>be me>riding my bike 2 days ago>pitbull leaps out of someone's backyard and comes straight for me>I duel it with my bicycle for like 5 minutes before the owner comes that's all, just a regular day living around poor people
>>2788773>Be me>middle of a French Guyana swamp while serving in the FFL>out on patrol>we have a pause in the march>leave the boys to piss and find a couple wild watermelons as I'm drenched in sweat and dehydrated>an unbearable stench assaults me>dead body me thinks, ought to investigate>go back to the boys>they're nowhere to be found>orders are to wait on spot if lost, in the meanwhile I decide to seek the corpse>follow the ungodly stench to a massive hollow tree>guttural growl shakes my bones>out of it comes a fucking abomination: a hairy, lurid, ulcerated obese living cancer with a pink gash oozing a white viscous fluid>it's OP's mother>empty rifle in a single long burts and run>trip over something, last thing I remember is a massive slimy tentacle grabbing my ankle and dragging me towards the opening in the tree>wake up a week later in a military hospital>officially my team got lost and succumbed to the elements, am only survivor>for about three years, patrols in the area would sometimes receive a barely perceptible radio interference on our (reserved) frequency at odd hours of the night resembling faint screams of agony, some men swore they heard latin prayers
>>2788836That's actually hilarios 10/10 OP>>2788838That's wild. How big did it seem in person>>2788864Nice.>>2788867Still animals I guess, you pass>>2788898It could be worse>>2788927I guess a mountain lion would have no interest in fighting me Unrequited love strikes againNice story though>>2788935Pitbulls are probably more "wild" than a lot of actual wild animals honestly>>2788936Honestly, decent greentext
>>2788960>How big did it seem in personWell when it was a few feet from my face in the dark I thought it was Simba's fucking mother. I guess it's the size of a large dog but with longer legs. Nasty face, it's eyeballs were like horse's eyes to me.
