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An animal I’ve never seen in the wild
dpmule
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pretty cool story
Mule
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So that's a native animal?
Yes, and I’m relatively sure their range is primarily south of the Snake river and out in the Owyhees, Bruneau, and Jarbidge country.
That area doesn’t have a lot of my foot and hoof prints in it.
Mule
Wild looking animal
Cool critter. I've never seen one either, but most of my exploration and hunting trips have been north of its normal range. Thanks for sharing that news story. Bob
...Ive spent a lot, I mean a LOT of time in the woods of East Texas, hunted most of West Texas, and all around LLano Texas deer & quail hunting. Ive seen only one of those things...
...I was walking back to deer camp after dark and something that sounded like a woman being murdered, screamed VERY LOUD, & VERY CLOSE, scared the snot out of me...my light went toward the sound and I guess I had scared it...
...It was about 12-15 feet up a tree, laying along a limb w/big eyes looking at me, was one of those things, had no idea what it was back then...it was only "cool" after I got out of the woods & back to camp...I have no doubt it scared me more than I scared it...
I used to go with a friend and his dad hunting for raccoons, in the northern parts of Denton and/or Wise Counties in Texas. My friend's dad owned the dogs, and he'd sure get mad at them if they treed a ringtail, and they did tree one now and then.
If you leave the "rac" off, the auto censor zaps it.
...Never used dogs to hunt...might have run across more of those using dogs...just sitting in a stand looking out on a feeder...before I decided a stand was the only way to hunt (dry & warm w/heater), the coldest Ive ever been in my life was deer hunting...getting so cold you cant walk, is not what I call "enjoyable", even w/all the right gear...setting dead still w/temp around 15 degrees, is nuts!..a nice warm stand is the only way to go...😊
That'd be warm weather for hunting whitetails in Northern Minnesota.
Some days were -20°.
Cold weather gear, pac boots, and hand and foot heater packs make it enjoyable.
Up dere in God's country, with God's weather. It's a good thing.
Ringtail cats are not something you see every day in Arizona, but not rare either. Maybe they like warmer weather?
Aren't these also called cooncats in some parts?
"That'd be warm weather for hunting whitetails in Northern Minnesota"
...Remind me not to hunt where you are 😊...I cant even imagine that kind of cold...I was sitting on a rock out cropping on a cliff, over looking a canyon...with all the right gear on, after I got to shivering so bad I couldnt have hit a deer if it had come up to pee on me, decided enough for the day...so I made it back to my old Willys jeep, of course it was in orginal configuration, no top, no doors...like to have froze to death in that open sucker...
Not to get too far off track but about twenty years ago I saw two Fishers. Was deer hunting in Sullivan County, NY and they were on other side of creek approx. thirty yards away. They looked jet black to me as I watched them thru scope playing with each other. Only ones I have ever seen in my life and don't know anyone that has seen one.---------Ray
I saw both fisher and marten while living in Colorado. Believe I saw a wolverine once here in Idaho. I am surprised at how many more porcupine i saw in Colorado. Only porkies I have seen here were in the foothill's brushy draws above Boise while chukar hunting. Never seen one of these little guys.
I am pretty fortunate.
I have seen/ watched two wolverines, one in the Wyoming range in western Wyoming in 1986, have seen plenty of their tracks on the west side of the Teton range in various places clear up to the YNP boundary, to note, my FIL was a govt trapper for 20 years in this area and he had seen only one.
#2 was on Alaskas North Slope and I watched him daily for two weeks dining on a den of lemmings, he put on quite a show.
have seen one Fisher, it was in the Big Hole range in SE Idaho,and it was only a minute or so of viewing before it disappeared into the undergrowth. Funny story, a guy was with me watching and when the fisher disappeared, He turned to me and said “ that was a strange looking rock chuck”, he didn’t believe me that it was a fisher until he went home and looked it up. I told him we were pretty fortunate to have gotten to see one.
I cannot count the number of Marten I have seen while riding and walking in western Wyoming and SE Idaho, have accounted for quite few with a #1 trap also.
in 1987 a Lynx walked across the road in front me right on the Wyoming/ Idaho line near Alpine Wyoming, stopped and watched for a couple minutes before he sauntered into the timber, in early November of 1996 while pulling a hunting camp about ~10 miles East of this sighting, I cut fresh Lynx tracks but never saw it. I saw two others in Alaska in 1989 near Skilak lake on the Kenai peninsula .
Mountain lions and Bobcats, I have seen quite few while out and about.
Mule