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Today me and a friend were out doing a little pheasant hunting. We bumped up a flock of birds and watched them fly out of range to the next bush down the river. We jumped back in the truck and spun down to the bush that the birds had headed to. When we pulled up a couple hens flushed and another came flopping out of the bush. I grabbed my binos as my buddy mentioned that she must be hurt. I was shocked to see a weasel had her by the wing and the two of them were struggling down the hill side. We watched this for maybe a minute with the weasel having a firm grip on her wing. We decided to interfere with nature a bit and walk over to scare the weasel off her and hopefully save the poor hens life.
When we got to the pair he had already finished her. Now a weasel that is about a quarter of the size of this full grown hen he had just killed was looking for a place to have lunch. He would drag her a couple of feet then run ahead and pick his route then return and pull her some more. The whole time we were a few feet away about 4 to 6 most of the time watching this little powerhouse work.
Once they reached the edge of a patch of cattails in the bottom we got very close to his kill and he came back and stood on her and looked at us as if to say if you try and take this from me there will be a fight. His face and neck was covered in her blood as I reached out to him with barrel of my shotgun he just gave it a sniff hopped off her and proceeded to finish dragging her into the spot he had picked out.
I had always heard that weasels were a serious predator but would never have expected this. I have seen coyotes, foxes and birds of prey take prey but this was the first time I have seen a weasel take anything.
I would have killed to have my camera with me or better yet my video camera but we have a 2 year old and the wife needs every camera we own stashed around the house incase she does something cute.:mad::mad:
 
This September while hunting grouse..my son shaot a bird as it was lifting off the ground....we walked up to retrieve the bird to find a pine marten bleeding right beside where the bird fell. Have never had anything like that happen . We think it must have been going to attack the bird just as he fired..
 
pound for pound weasels are likely the most ferocious creature on the planet today. I remember as a kid having a weasel no bigger than a red squirrel try drag off a dead mallard drake from our cattail blind. When my old man shooed it away it stood up and bared it's teeth like it was a grizzly.
 
They can be crafty too. We have a regularly shot gopher field that now has several weasles who know they can ignore the gunfire, run around the field with impunity (except they don't like to see the big hawks we also attract) and collect the bodies. All they have to do is drag one home. The shooting actually attracts them now.
 
Weasels are cool. The way they move reminds me of dolphins jumping up and diving down except they are in bush not water. I saw one bounding through the bush, then saw it again 5 minutes later with a squirrels head. Really funny to watch, they look really happy bounding around.
 
As one who's familiar with how vicious weasels are, I was shocked when my cat dragged one through the cat door and presented it to me (dead).

He's brought home a couple of full grown rabbits and numerous squirrels, even a frog... but a weasel! As far as I know, it's the weasel that kills the cat. Not a mark on the cat either.

I shoot squirrels in the trees around my house whenever I see them. They can really make a mess of ones shed. The cat now comes running when he hears the action open on my .22. The gunfire doesn't bother him and he usually even retrieves the squirrel and drops it at my feet. I think he's part dog.

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Ok sorry, not about cats, it's about weasels...carry on.
 
weasels and minks are tough little buggers. My dog got in a fight with a mink in the corn field this fall. I thought the dog was fighting a coon from all the hissing and growling going on. The mink would bite my dog in the mouth when he'd grab it and then I'd hear the yips and more thrashing. I ran up as fast as I could to find the little thing being rag dolled by my dog, dog was bleeding from the mouth and nose pretty good.
 
Weasels are nasty little buggers considering that the whole family (badgers anyone?) is pretty vicious it wasn't surprising that you had a run in with one. I saw a giant badger walking across a field once (thought it was a coyote at first) and I kept well clear of that bugger. Even armed I wasn't interested in getting bit by one of those suckers...
 
M12shooter said:
pound for pound weasels are likely the most ferocious creature on the planet today. I remember as a kid having a weasel no bigger than a red squirrel try drag off a dead mallard drake from our cattail blind. When my old man shooed it away it stood up and bared it's teeth like it was a grizzly.
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I would say the wolverine is.
 
Great story. It's little things like this that can make any hunt a success, whether or not you bag anything.

Wolverines are weasels.

John
 
DVXDUDE said:
weasels and minks are tough little buggers. My dog got in a fight with a mink in the corn field this fall. I thought the dog was fighting a coon from all the hissing and growling going on. The mink would bite my dog in the mouth when he'd grab it and then I'd hear the yips and more thrashing. I ran up as fast as I could to find the little thing being rag dolled by my dog, dog was bleeding from the mouth and nose pretty good.
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Your dog will not let that happen again. He now knows how to kill a mink.

Most of us UK hunters grow up owning ferrets. We learn our field craft alongside our dogs and mustelids.
 
I've had one in my shop in the barn for two years now and its come to the point where he will take little chunks of dehydrated liver out of my hand.I haven't seen a mouse in my barn since he arrived.He must be a liebral weasel though,he seems to like CBC North.
 
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