Taking down animals

[DimeBrite]

Rams seem pretty easy to dispatch.

You know better...

 

[FinLuver]

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You know better...

I used to do that with the pet goat when we both were youngins…

Could explain some things today.
(That n 30 years of soccer.)

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Well some dude in the Wuhan wet market was all "I can take this bat-eatin' Pangolin, no problem" then it hisses at him and whammo, we get this COVID comin' in.

Then some other dude in Africa's like "see that pox covered monkey? I can take that, for sure, I mean look at it, all covered in open sores" next thing we know we got this monkeypox comin' in.

Pretty soon some guy in Australia's like "see that Koala with chlamydia in its eyes, that there blind Koala? I can take that one...." next thing we know we got Koala Chlamydia comin' in

 

[Nick Clayton]

I'm pretty sure I could take an adult Dungeness crab 1 on 1. No way am I messing with a Red Rock though

 

[Brian in OR.]

I tried to man handle my sisters cat one time to show him who's boss....... Big mistake, the harder i squeezed the harder he dug into my arm with his claws and teeth. I ended up losing the battle with a good lesson learned

 

[Chadk]

I've faced off with, wrestled, wrangled and sometimes killed more than my far share of animals.

Charging herd of brahmas
Crazed cow trying to break down her pen after getting spooked by a bear
As a vet assistant in college - huge young great Dane needing eye drops, crazy cats refusing to take pills, etc
In Texas as a kid - dozens of large snakes wrangled, some venomous killed, caught armadillos, large snapping turtles, gar fish. Close encounters with a number of gators. Once got into a scrap with a nutria and killed it with my dad's Vietnam kbar.

I have raised some mean roosters, angry geese, escape artist goats and hogs...and killed and butcherd the hogs.

Used to own exotics.. giant tortoises, big boas and pythons, large monitor lizards, etc

I've killed mule deer and whitetail. Dozens of other wild games and farm animals.

Point being, not much intimidates me. But I wouldn't want to square up with a bear or cougar without some sort of weapon.

 

[_WW_]

I prefer to use other methods and not have to put my hands on them.

 

[jasmillo]

I once had a prairie chicken of some kind chase me around my car in Yellowstone National Park. I was loading up a camera and spotting scope when all of the sudden the little bastard got strong and started attacking my leg. I gave him a quick swat with a tripod but he was relentless. Now I am a 220+ lb man give or take 30lbs depending on the year and probably could have taken him. The thought of ending up on the Tourons of Yellowstone Instagram feed or an article in Mother Earth with a bullseye across my face made me think twice, so I chose flight over fight and skedaddled.

Since that day at least once a month I am shaken awake by my wife saying.. “honey, you’re talking in your sleep again…the prairie chicke”? “Yes, sweetie, sorry for waking you”….and then she starts laughing hysterically to the point of crying exactly like she did the day it happened.

 

[Yard Sale]

I'm more of a lover than a fighter.

 

[Stonedfish]

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Not the best picture because he was pretty upset but I did get my lure back. I would never fight a turtle.

Those snappers are the real deal.
I was fishing a smaller creek in Minnesota and saw two of them fighting or spawning, I’m not sure what they were doing but they were going at it.
Shortly afterwards I hear some noice and this one is climbing over the rocks towards me. I almost needed Travers……
I’m very happy we don’t have them here.
SF

 

[Mossback]

Worried you can't outrun a turtle... ?

 

[Stonedfish]

Worried you can't outrun a turtle... ?

Depends on how much I had to drink and how slippery the rocks are….
SF

 

[stillreleasing]

Worried you can't outrun a turtle... ?

I’m pretty sure the turtle always wins that race, at least that’s what I was raised to believe. Slow and steady.

 

[Mossback]

I've seen @Stonedfish walking down the street in Forks. It is a tossup on who is slower between him and me.
Either way, my money is on the turtle...

 

[Nick Clayton]

I've seen @Stonedfish walking down the street in Forks. It is a tossup on who is slower between him and me.
Either way, my money is on the turtle...

I've witnessed him cover 100 yards of beach in seconds when he spotted a small school of humpsters jumping and wanted to get a cast in front of them.

 

[Mossback]

Well I am certainly not sprinting 100 yards, or feet, or inches for that matter.
I guess it is a good thing we don't have those snapping turtles out here.

 

[Yard Sale]

I once took out a large deer with my bare F250.

 

[jact55]

I've always wanted to get attacked by a medium size bear, with people around to watch. I daydream I'd give him the biggest Haymaker in the nose I could, my dying punch. By the grace of God, he'd turn and run away, not cause of my punch, just cause he didn't want to deal with it or something.
But I'd look so damn badass.

My biggest battle to date was with a giant popcorn spider, who was hanging face level out my backdoor. Walked smackdab face into him and it was on. We were both scared and winded by the end of it. We both escaped after I temporarily detained him show my wife. We'll call it a draw.

 

[Zak]

One time I was standing on a flat rock in Chaco sandals on the White River in Vermont, fishing an eddy seam. A Giant Toebiter Beetle in the water saw me, climbed out, and chased me off my rock. Not my proudest moment, I guess.

 

[JimTravers¤£a!!Travers]

Knew a guy who claimed he could beat up a large male Buffalo. I figured no way that could be true!! You never know tho I guess.

But rather than call him out, I leverudged his remark for my own GAIN!!!! I acted like his claim was normal and said "that's average! I can BEAT UP A ANGRY MALE LION!!". He was intimidated after that!!!!