bad way to go out

[Ljungman]

If you're ever in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, check out Mary Browns, they have 2 huge bull moose heads mounted on the wall with their antlers stuck together, they got locked together and died, someone found them just after and had them mounted the way they were.

I'm gonna see that next time I go through there.

As another "wrath of nature" story, my buddy has a crow mounted. He was bear hunting in his stand on a rather windy day and he say the crow fly between two trees just as they blew together and crushed him. He had a hell of a time getting the permit to get it mounted from the wildlife who were damn right sure he killed it somehow (can't shoot crows in NFLD).

 

[PrairiePirate]

A guy came across two bucks with their heads stuck together. One was dead and the other half dead from exhuastion(it had some nibbles on a leg from a coyote) He shot the half dead one.

I guess he had a hell of a time with the COs because he only had the tag for one, but they thought he'd killed two.. He had to prove to them that one was dead from natural causes before they let him go.

He also had to put his ticket on the one he shot even though the meat wasn't fit to eat.

 

[open-sights]

ahh yeah,, poor tree

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

My father described a unique experience many years ago while hunting in the Himalayan foothills......while tracking a wounded Sambhar stag he came across a decomposing carcasses of a huge python and a Cheetal (spotted) deer coiled around a tree.......from what he could read into the situation, the deer's sharp horns had somehow pierced the snake during the struggle and it was unable free itself.

 

[Ahsan Ahmed]

I'm gonna see that next time I go through there.

As another "wrath of nature" story, my buddy has a crow mounted. He was bear hunting in his stand on a rather windy day and he say the crow fly between two trees just as they blew together and crushed him. He had a hell of a time getting the permit to get it mounted from the wildlife who were damn right sure he killed it somehow (can't shoot crows in NFLD).

It can be at times hard to grasp unless one has personally witnessed such occurances.....your friend's experience reminds me of a hunt in the tea gardens.....pheasants were flushing wild that day and I saw a #### fly straight into a branch of a tall tree, saw it plummet towards the ground as if shot and then take off again before we could bear on it .....all this to my absolute amazement and surprise happened not more than 30 feet from where I was standing!

 

[DarrylDB]

It can be at times hard to grasp unless one has personally witnessed such occurances.....your friend's experience reminds me of a hunt in the tea gardens.....pheasants were flushing wild that day and I saw a #### fly straight into a branch of a tall tree, saw it plummet towards the ground as if shot and then take off again before we could bear on it .....all this to my absolute amazement and surprise happened not more than 30 feet from where I was standing!

I've hunted with guys that point with their fingers instead of their guns too...

Bad habit