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  • BMF500

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    I was sitting on the porch in Bracketville one night watching this scene and sipping some whiskey. I watched a cougar take down a doe. By the time I got in the house and my hands on a rifle it and the doe it had by the neck were gone. What you see on TV and YouTube or whatever does it no justice, lighting fast. It was early Jan in the extended doe and spike season and we really hadn't seen shit at an otherwise plentiful private/family ranch. That night I figured out why.

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    Texasjack

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    In my pipeline days, we used to get invited on some pretty decent deer leases. One of my favorites was down near Del Rio. The ranch had been used in WWII for training pilots to attack stuff on the ground. There were still long stretches of rocks that spelled out "No Pass" to mark boundaries for strafing. Tons of 50 cal brass all over the area, and occasionally people would find a practice bomb that hadn't gone off. One day we were cruising through an area where there were no stands and found about 50 sheep, all dead. Must have been coyotes, as they just ate the livers of a few of them.

    We were on a different lease in the area and I was dumped off at an open top elevated box stand early one afternoon. It was cold and windy, so i hunkered down in it. Around 1 o'clock, I heard something walking, and it wasn't sheep or deer. I peeked up and here came a long line of illegals. I stood up - all in camo and with my rifle - and one of the illegals yelled "Ay carramba!" and they all threw up their hands. Their coyote ran up and told them I was just a hunter, then waved at me. I motioned for them to keep walking. An hour later, a green INS plane flew by. I waved and when he came back by, I pointed the direction the illegals had gone. He waggled his wings and headed that way.

    The funniest sight was one of our own doing. A friend and I were turkey hunting near Ft. Stockton. We set up a tent and he rigged us a latrine away from the camp. He stuck a roll or two of toilet paper on a nearby mesquite branch. That night came up a terrible storm - wind, lightning, rain, hail - it was loud and scary. In the morning when the sun came up, every mesquite in that field was draped with toilet paper. Luckily the owner had a pretty good sense of humor.

    When we were kids, there was a pond back in an old mining area that was a great place for parties. Tough to get to. A friend and I took our girlfriends out there, and he was trying to impress his girl by jumping off a cliff. He ended up with a terrible sliced open foot (probably broken beer bottle) and I had a helluva time getting him out of there. 6 months later, a guy we knew that was picked up for stealing tires led the police to that pond and they pulled out 3 bodies. One was allegedly a federal narc with an engine block holding him down. We used to kid my buddy that it wasn't a broken bottle that cut his foot - it was bitten by one of those disposed bodies.
     

    baboon

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    When we were kids, there was a pond back in an old mining area that was a great place for parties. Tough to get to. A friend and I took our girlfriends out there, and he was trying to impress his girl by jumping off a cliff. He ended up with a terrible sliced open foot (probably broken beer bottle) and I had a helluva time getting him out of there. 6 months later, a guy we knew that was picked up for stealing tires led the police to that pond and they pulled out 3 bodies. One was allegedly a federal narc with an engine block holding him down. We used to kid my buddy that it wasn't a broken bottle that cut his foot - it was bitten by one of those disposed bodies.

    Rock quarry back home was back up water for a Com Ed coal/steam plant. One year during a draught water levels dropped & 35 vehicles where found stacked up in a pyramid. One of my best friends parents owned the trucks used to pull them out.
     

    jrbfishn

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    Out rabbit hunting with 2 guys that were older than me. A Sgt and retired 1st Sgt. on Ft Hood.
    Started out cold that day so we dressed warm. Well, it warmed up. A lot. Got quite a distance from the truck with no water. We were all hot and thirsty. The Sgt. Got separated from us going after a rabbit. We could here him shooting in the distance but could not see him or the dogs. Then the shooting stopped. Dogs quit baying. We waited. Nothing.
    And we are getting thirstier by the minute.
    Finally he comes around a thicket. No rabbit. But he had found three ice cold Honeydew Melons on a vine out in the middle of freaking nowhere on he Ft Hood training range. And only three. N more around.
    I don't care for Honeydews that much, but damn, that one sure tasted good.
    Both of them are gone now. Damn I miss those guys.

    Sent by an idjit coffeeholic from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk
     

    baboon

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    Out here by the lake!
    They are really big. Im hoping to get to africa in the next couple of years. Greater kudu is on the list
    Join SCI, go to the convention & bid on auction for package deals. Same can be done @ DSC & HSC. I'm happy that I had the chance to do it 3 times over 10 years. Not sure I would try pulling it off now even if I was younger.

    A trip to the Y.O. Ranch Headquarters or other big game ranch is defiantly safer.
    http://yoranchheadquarters.com

    Last January I went to HSC convention & most of the guy I knew no longer are around. Most of them were drunks anyway.
     

    satx78247

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    A rotten golf bag with a complete set of old clubs found hanging in a tree on a ranch in SW TX.

    What puzzled me was WHO/WHY somebody abandoned the set so far from the nearest building, ranch road or even a dirt track/trail. = I'm guessing the tree was at least 2-3 miles from "civilization".

    yours, satx
     

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    I don't think anyone was trying to top anyone, just to mention odds things found afield but I must say wow what a story.
    You know...I'm so sorry...I just had a poor choice of words. I really didnt mean to imply that this story was better than any other story. Like the time I found a family of bigfoot living in an abandoned school bus deep in the woods.
     

    skfullgun

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    In the woods...
    You know...I'm so sorry...I just had a poor choice of words. I really didnt mean to imply that this story was better than any other story. Like the time I found a family of bigfoot living in an abandoned school bus deep in the woods.
    Shouldn't that be a family of BIGFEET?
    I am just funnin'!
     

    BRD@66

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    You know...I'm so sorry...I just had a poor choice of words. I really didnt mean to imply that this story was better than any other story. Like the time I found a family of bigfoot living in an abandoned school bus deep in the woods.
    Who in the world would abandon a school bus in the woods?
     

    Southpaw

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    Who in the world would abandon a school bus in the woods?

    When I was a kid there was a garbage truck we use to play on in the woods. It wasn't too far from civilization but it I guess it was far enough in there where it wasn't worth recovering. Never thought much about it then, but I'd imagine it was stolen and left there after it got too far in and was no good for joyriding any more.
     
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