STRANGE THINGS

[coastrangecathunting]

I was roading the dogs the other night when a deer came off the bank. The dogs all stood in the road looking at me and at the deer. Next thing i know the deer runs strait at me and BAM. Runs right into my grill. I get out and the deer is knocked out cold. After a couple mins it wakes up and runs off. There were parts of grill and my toyota emblem laying on the ground. I just laghed and kept on hunting.

jc

[Dale T]

That sounds like a suicide atemp to me, you should have finished it and loaded it up for the freezer.

[runnin akita]

Thats funny. Reminds me of a time a friend and I were sighting in our rifes for deer season. He was shooting and I was glassing the target. I heard a noise behind me so i turned around and to my suprise a antolpe was walking not 20 feet away from us AS WE WERE SHOOTING it slowly went around us and headed up the hill and no lie it walked right up to our target gave it a sniff and walked off.

[twist]

jc, maybe the deer got tired of the dogs chasing him and figured it was pay back time. lol just kidding. Andy

[horshur]

not bobcat hunting but years ago I had a mixed up dog we were walking out a cold cougar track....everything is quit it really is just a hike...the dog is kinda going from track to track not really paying much attention she is only 15-20 meters ahead of me....she bout steps on a bedded mulie doe who bolts course libby is getting off to the races but she weren't really paying much attention and there happened to be two does sleeping pretty close...second doe is up from behind a Fir and went on the offence...she run down my dog from behind while libby was running after the first doe and just layed a beating on her....was a good laugh..

[mohawk]

Years ago me and a buddy were riding four wheelers while we were cat hunting in wallowa, he was up ahead of me about 15-20 yards. I caught some movement out from the trees and watched a grouse fly down and hit my buddy right in the back of the head. it just about knocked him off the wheeler, i was laughing so freakin hard i thought he was going to whoop my ass he thought that i threw something at him took me a while to convince him that it wasnt me

[Dale T]

not bobcat hunting but years ago I had a mixed up dog we were walking out a cold cougar track....everything is quit it really is just a hike...the dog is kinda going from track to track not really paying much attention she is only 15-20 meters ahead of me....she bout steps on a bedded mulie doe who bolts course libby is getting off to the races but she weren't really paying much attention and there happened to be two does sleeping pretty close...second doe is up from behind a Fir and went on the offence...she run down my dog from behind while libby was running after the first doe and just layed a beating on her....was a good laugh..

sound like a good way to get the dogs broke off deer.

[dwalton]

A few years back Tim was hunting with me and we treed two cats in the morning. I gave him my start dog [Pepper] and told him to find a cat and put his young dogs with her. He call after a while and said he had one going. I came over and heard Pepper treed up the side canyon. We went up there before we got there I could tell that she was treeing in a hole or brush pile. We got there she was in the draw where water had been in high water times. She was tree in a log jam treeing a hole. I could tell something was there but in the water. I pulled enough brush out of the way to see that she was baying a salmon in a hole of water. Know how many of you boys have bayed up a fish before. Tim comment was ' I am sure glad you came over because you would of never believed me if I told you she had a fish bayed. " and he would of been right. Dewey

[mondomuttruner]

Thats a good one Dewey, however, a friend of mine's dogs bayed up an amish buggy which I think takes the cake!!

[super white hunter]

A few years back Tim was hunting with me and we treed two cats in the morning. I gave him my start dog [Pepper] and told him to find a cat and put his young dogs with her. He call after a while and said he had one going. I came over and heard Pepper treed up the side canyon. We went up there before we got there I could tell that she was treeing in a hole or brush pile. We got there she was in the draw where water had been in high water times. She was tree in a log jam treeing a hole. I could tell something was there but in the water. I pulled enough brush out of the way to see that she was baying a salmon in a hole of water. Know how many of you boys have bayed up a fish before. Tim comment was ' I am sure glad you came over because you would of never believed me if I told you she had a fish bayed. " and he would of been right. Dewey

DId you keep the fish! that one should be mounted and put on the wall

[mark]

Im not sure if this is all that strange, but it was definently embarrassing. My dogs don't go through town very often and aren't hunted with other people or other dogs much. I loaded up 6 or 7 and headed down to the west coast cathunters bash last september. Pretty smooth trip down. Decided to head home and hunt instead of checking out J C 's back yard when it was over. It was a nice fall evening when we pulled into the little town of Winston Or. There is a big bronze cheetah at the main intersection in town and a traffic light. Well i hit the light about the time it turned red and came to a stop, every dog in the box stuck its head out and was staring at that bronze about 30 ft away. Then everyone of them blew up and had a major come apart over it. People walking everywhere cars behind me windows down and there we sat. Longest red light of my life. Speakers at the fast food joints are always a good time with the dogs too. Friggn dogs! Ha ha

[LarryBeggs]

This may be more funny than strange but here goes.When I was a kid I was asleep in the front seat of the pick up. When I woke up I see Pat Johnston ( one of dads hunting buddys) run buy the passenger door right on his heels was a cow elk I turn around to see dad with a gun ready to shoot the elk to save pat.Pat scales a steep clay cut bank that a man the size of Pat wouldnt normaly be able to do and the cow veeres into the brush.I look in front of the truck to see Perry Ash standing on top of the dog box in the truck in front of me waving a hard hat around and hollering( the elk had been after both of them). Down the road in front of that truck I see Buddy Smith chasing the dogs who were chasing a calf down the road. Buddy got the dogs away from the calf and no animals or people were harmed but it was alot of exitement to wake up to.

[Unreal_tk]

Larry,

You made me almost piss my pants from laughing so hard, it was just like I was there!

[al baldwin]

I was roading the dogs years ago, had been a few days without finding a track to run & recall that being on my mind. The dogs hit a good track and raced over a ridge out of hearing sounded like screaming jump. I decided to drive back down the road and up a spur road to get into the drainage I suspected the dogs would be in. Probably only took less than ten minutes to reach the end of the spur. As soon as I stepped out could hear the dogs treed solid, sounded about half mile away. I arrived found dogs treed in a very large tanoak. I must have looked that tree over for twenty minutes or so, had about decided maybe a faulse tree. As I was making my last circle around that tanoak before maybe giving up finding a bobcat. My eyes caught sight of about a sixty pound lion hanging about twenty feet on the side of a small fir about thirty feet from that tanoak. It was a spooky feeling, realized I had walked directley under the critter several times. That critter look like it was glued to the side of the tree. It was so still it appeared like a mounted cat. I had to wonder how a critter could hang that motionless for so long. I got the dogs to settle down and called them away from the area. I never packed a camera but that was one day I wished I had, never seen anything quite like that. I had lots of days when I hunted several hours and never found a track. Al

[mike martell]

Al
Those old lions rigged like that don't stay on the ground for long with track style bobcat hounds. We need to get this sport back!
Larry
That was funny, the cast of characters I had all but forgotten about! Some forty years ago? You see Miller,ask him about the time on Moose Mtn when we were trailing a bear and landed up in the middle of a herd of elk at calving time! That can be a life threatening experience! Bayed bears seem meek and mild compared to a cow elk protecting her calf....

I had a blacktail buck in the rut last year standing in the middle of the road around 10 pm as I was driving off the mountain cat hunting. He did the deer in the headlights thing and started to bound down the road the same direction I was traveling. I thought he was pretty dumb acting like bucks get that time of year.

I follwed him down the road and he seemed content just roading ahead of the truck like a hound, this goes on for some time and distance when all of a sudden beyond the buck, a coon decides to cross the road some 80 yards ahead I spot his scamper across the road in the headlights. I didn't think much about the coon until we arrived at the spot he crossed, all of a sudden the coon comes back out of the ditch and begins to high tail it back to the creek. Now we have a coon crossing the road one way and the deer the other. Without breaking stride the deer must jump the coon as they meet at the same time.

The deer is startled and tries to jump over the coon losing his footing he does a nose dive and like a bowling ball to a pin wipes out the coon! The coon goes skidding and he is off to the creek, the deer gets his footing and is off running straight for the main highway, for what ever reason he refused to leave the road. I think, Oh crap, he is going to meet a car like he did that coon and it will be over, he hit the highway and in about two jumps cleared and went to the banks of the Santiam river and was long gone. Hope that dude could swim better than he could jump!