Most Unusual Animal You've Taken
tnranger
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What's yours? The recent Shotgun News thread made me think of my biggest buck (large by Tennessee hill country standards) taken with an all- original, 1912-manufactured Swedish Mauser ordered from a Shotgun News ad in the late 80's. He had a broken tine (luckily all there). I figure it was from fighting with the young upstarts.
The first surprise came when I picked him up from the processor. The meat cutter beckoned and said, “C'mere. I wanna show you something.” He brought out an arrowhead that he'd found with his meat saw (wasn't happy about that). It had been located against his spine and was there long enough to be encased in gristle. His comment was, “I wonder who unscrewed the shaft for him.” But that isn't the end of the story. I picked the mount up from the taxidermist (BTW she fixed the tine to where even I couldn't tell it had been broken). She said, “You don't know how lucky you are to have this deer.” I smiled and said”Oh yes I do.” She said, “Oh no. You don't understand.” Turns out, the deer had a festering bullet crease from the nose area diagonally up to to his forehead. She was able to fix it to be virtually invisible. That lady should have been a surgeon.
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I took a photo of a velvet worm in Trinidad.
Don’t know about the most unusual but different for me would be an antelope. Living in the Midwest In Illinois we don’t have them. They were a hoot to hunt though. Different taste than deer.
Cool. I understand that you don't see them in their natural setting just every day.
One year deer hunting in Northern Michigan I was walking through a dry willow swamp. The temperature was close to 80 degrees, very unusual for November in Michigan. I encountered a 12 - 14 inch Garter Snake that reared up just like a Cobra and hissed at me. That sure surprised me. I walked around it and DID NOT dispatch that vicious snake with my sporterized 7.7mm Jap rifle.
Well, let's see it.
True that, we spent three nights in the forest looking, and finally got a minute and a half photo session. Also got a lot of spider photos, uropigids, crickets and sleeping butterflies. Unfortunately, since Photobucket went big bucks, I don't have a photo host. I will look in to it.
If your photos are in your phone or computer you can post them without a host
Imgur.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
For me, probably:
When I shot this one a few years back, it was unusual to see them around here…..NOW they are everywhere !!!
And be tracked straight back to the source by hackers.
that is what Wundednee said.
Why I didn't take pictures, I'll never know, but around ten years ago, there was a whitetail buck that used to mill around the neighborhood. Looked like any other whitetail, other than the right antler being deformed. The antler, jet black in color, ran down the side of its head, and ended in a L shape right in front of its nose. Snorkel deer. I don't know what caused it, but assume a run-in with a car.
Been using them since Photobucket went sideways, never had an issue.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
My first bobcat. Called him in with a fawn bleat. Got him mounted in the living room and they do taste like chicken only tougher.
I harvested what I thought was a whitetail buck back in the 80's. It was actually a doe with the ugliest set of antlers I have ever seen.
I have the skull cap of a second one that I took during muzzleloader season about ten years later.
I don't expect to either.
This cat never killed another calf two minutes after I took this photo ,,,,,,
Swordfish with a speargun.
No pics but coming back to Misson Bay from San Clemente Island a 8 foot Swordfish was on the surface not bothered by the boat. Jumped in the water and the spear broke his back (which most likely saved me from losing the speargun).
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Interesting. I’ve only hunted cougars in bars.
Brad Steele
LOL! @Don McManus I never hunted them anywhere, but I was stocked, caught and mounted by a few in my late teens and twenty's….
Lovedthe hunt . Been stalked a few times myself .
I was Bass fishing once using a live frog and caught a water moccasin, they put up a good fight but you really don't want to boat one of them …………………………….. 😮
Possum on the half-shell!!! Actually, have the taste and appearance of pork. (and yes, I have eaten armadillo!)
She'd probably be insulted by being called 'an animal'.
Took this bad boy in my driveway with a piece of pvc pipe 3 feet long and 1” diameter. Not sure of the velocity. Don’t need snakes socilizing with my dog!
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Looks like a prairie or northern pacific.
Yes. I was thinking northern pacific.
Thanks for not chewing me out for saving my dog from it.
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Bagged this guy a couple years ago. I think of it as miniature wild bore hunting, they can tear a yard up real quick.
Your dig could have taken it, tough dig. I would have moved it, but I have done that for decades.