Superstitions and weird stuff while hunti

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Hey guys,
I posted this topic on shooters.com a while ago and got some very unusual replies.
I was wonderin’ if any of you have had anything weird or unexplainable happen while out hunting.
I posted this question on shooters because when you think about it we go into some pretty wild and generally uninhabited countryside and you would expect to see some unusual things. I know fisherman still have some superstitions and they still see and experience some pretty strange things while out in the middle of nowhere.
I was reading an article in Australian shooter magazine where the author said on the property he frequently visited there was these huge rocks. No one went beyond these rocks; it was just too eerie and spooky. The author who was no girls blouse did go beyond these rocks one day and shot a very, very large black cat (some say panther?) with a 130 grain pill from his ’06. 
One of my mates at shooters had a very similar story where he was hunting and then all of a sudden he came to a very remote part of the property. He said even the birds stopped singing. He said for no real reason all the hairs on the back of his neck were on end. He could not get out of there quick enough. When he got to the homestead he was telling the owner of the property and the cocky said how in that particular area a fisheries and wildlife inspector was attacked by something large and black. 
Another spooky one was when one of the bow hunters shot a deer and while he was field dressing it he could faintly hear children laughing, which was odd considering he was in the middle of nowhere. When he turned around there was nothing there except an old cemetery. He very quickly finished the job and got the hell out of there.
I know personally sometimes I’ll be out in the bush and then all of a sudden I’ll feel uneasy and the neck hairs will stand up. Don’t know why but it’s eerie when it happens.
It really was interesting hearing some of the tales - and it seemed nearly everyone had one to tell. And they all said the same thing, they never tell anyone because people think you imagined it. Unless you’re in the middle of nowhere and something weird happens you don’t know how it feels. I know that there are wankers and tools about but these guys seemed genuine and answered my question seriously.
If you guys have any similar stories or superstitions it would be great to hear them, as it is a bit of a change to the usual stories we hear.
Russ.

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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Topic: Superstitions and weird stuff while hunti Posted: 23 August 2003 at 20:05
	Hey guys, I posted this topic on shooters.com a while ago and got some very unusual replies. I was wonderin’ if any of you have had anything weird or unexplainable happen while out hunting. I posted this question on shooters because when you think about it we go into some pretty wild and generally uninhabited countryside and you would expect to see some unusual things. I know fisherman still have some superstitions and they still see and experience some pretty strange things while out in the middle of nowhere. I was reading an article in Australian shooter magazine where the author said on the property he frequently visited there was these huge rocks. No one went beyond these rocks; it was just too eerie and spooky. The author who was no girls blouse did go beyond these rocks one day and shot a very, very large black cat (some say panther?) with a 130 grain pill from his ’06. One of my mates at shooters had a very similar story where he was hunting and then all of a sudden he came to a very remote part of the property. He said even the birds stopped singing. He said for no real reason all the hairs on the back of his neck were on end. He could not get out of there quick enough. When he got to the homestead he was telling the owner of the property and the cocky said how in that particular area a fisheries and wildlife inspector was attacked by something large and black. Another spooky one was when one of the bow hunters shot a deer and while he was field dressing it he could faintly hear children laughing, which was odd considering he was in the middle of nowhere. When he turned around there was nothing there except an old cemetery. He very quickly finished the job and got the hell out of there. I know personally sometimes I’ll be out in the bush and then all of a sudden I’ll feel uneasy and the neck hairs will stand up. Don’t know why but it’s eerie when it happens. It really was interesting hearing some of the tales - and it seemed nearly everyone had one to tell. And they all said the same thing, they never tell anyone because people think you imagined it. Unless you’re in the middle of nowhere and something weird happens you don’t know how it feels. I know that there are wankers and tools about but these guys seemed genuine and answered my question seriously. If you guys have any similar stories or superstitions it would be great to hear them, as it is a bit of a change to the usual stories we hear. Russ.

TasunkaWitko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka The Gipper Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Chinook Montana Status: Offline Points: 14753	Posted: 23 August 2003 at 20:53
	russ - this looks to be an excellent topic~looking forward to seeing some of the replies. off the yop of my head, i can't think of anything strange, unusual or weird happening, but that could change this fall!
	TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Posted: 23 August 2003 at 21:30
	Thanks tash, Mate I gotta tell ya the outback can be a scary place sometimes. I'm just glad that we are hunters. Man sometimes when the old neck hairs are on end and I get the creeps I'm glad I'm holding a high powered rifle. If I was bushwalking or birdwatching I think I would sh_t myself! When something eerie happens out in the bush, mate there is nothing creepier. Russ.

EDip Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 12 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 562	Posted: 23 August 2003 at 23:55
	*NOFX,* *Your story stood the hairs up on my arms. Reminds me of a onetime experience in the Mich western Upper Peninsula in a very desolate area.* My brother and I deer hunt out of a 12X14 outfitters tent. We bow hunt the first week before rifle season opens. No firearms are allowed while bow hunting. One morning after a light snow during the night I walked a half mile to my ground blind and sat for the morning and then returned to the tent by a different route for a lunch. While returning to my blind on my earlier track, tracks of what appeared to be a pack of wild dogs followed my track for about a quarter mile all the way to my blind. They had urinated all over the area even where I sat, marking their territory. I still wonder what would be the outcome if I were still at the blind. My bow would have been useless against the whole pack. We do have lots of coyotes and wolves in the area, but they are harmless to humans. My only other experience years before with a pack of dogs was while driving thru Tennessee, the wife and I stopped for the night and I took my usual (at that time) daily 20 mile bike ride on an uninhabited country paved road. I saw no passing vehicles. At a cross road there was a pack of dogs about 150 yds away spotting me as I cruised by. On the way back I was slowed somewhat on a hill climb. At the top I kicked to a higher gear and sped up. All at once close at my heels the pack started barking ferociously as I was pulling away. They had been very quietly closing in on me. My hair stood on end. I’ve had several encounters in country areas with single dogs before and had some cases of holding my bike between me and a dog until the owner called them off. I used “Halt”spray cans on a fewdogs after that.

CB900F Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator Honor, Integrity Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Eritrea Status: Offline Points: 8857	Posted: 24 August 2003 at 06:16
	Fella's; Something that happened to me that was perfectly expainable, but none-the-less scared the crap right out of the family. Before we had moved to Montana, we were returning to Casper Wy. from a visit to my in-laws here in Montana. It was in winter, dark, late, low clouds & we were in the family car driving south on US 310 going from Bridger MT. towards Frannie Wy. The road follows the bottom of a shallow valley & is pretty straight. The van shook, ROARING, as an extremely low-level B-52 passed directly over us from the rear. The hard deck for those training runs was usually 300 feet. If he was at 300 it was only because the top of his tail was. I think he was well under 300. Odds were that he was based out of Ellsworth in Rapid City SD & doing a penetration run on the missle fields in Wyoming. I'm sure that the crew got a good laugh out of it. I can too - now. But for a split second it felt like the end of the world. 900F
	Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!!

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Posted: 24 August 2003 at 12:43
	G’Day all, In some parts of Oz there have been literally dozens of panther sightings, which is why I included the two stories before. The story goes that apparently these panthers were mascots for troops during the war and some escaped and they have been breeding ever since. There have been heaps of sightings in Victoria where I live – in fact as close to 15 – 20 min from my home. My mother claimed she seen one once in the bush at Anglesea (10 min from Geelong where I live) but my mum is an excitable lady and I maybe think she thought she seen one. Still cocky’s (farmers) are finding roo’s with their heads bitten off and stuff like that. The mauled remains are different to what wild dogs or dingos would leave. A while back on a current affairs program they had some cocky’s on saying the attacks on livestock are getting worse and they will not leave the house without a rifle. They were urging the government to take this stuff seriously and to help them out. In an article of Australian shooter there was a whole edition focusing on the panthers in Australia thing. The author claims that all the information and files that had been gathered for the government on panther sighting, photos etc… have gone missing. He was in fact threatened for trying to pursue it. Makes you wonder… P.S. macca, have you heard much on the panther issue in Oz?

macca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby AKA The Thunder From DownUnder Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1149	Posted: 24 August 2003 at 18:37
	Hi NOFX,the panther tales have been around for a long time.Escaped from circuses,ex mascots.I remember they brought in a black tracker down in Vic where those stock were being killed.He found tracks and started a big arguement because no one could identify them.Then there was that boy mauled in the Blue Mountains and everyone saying it was a panther and NPWS saying it was a big feral cat(suppose the panther would qualify at that). I don't dismiss it out of hand because I have seen some weird tracks in the bush at times.If they were feral cats they were big buggers.Everyone likes to think its just pranks but you never know. As to the hair standing on end buisiness,I had a nasty expierence while whistling foxes.I was sitting with my back against a tree and calling them in.I was armed with a sako in .17 rem and had two foxes and was working on my third.All of a sudden I felt my hairs go up and I went cold.I couldn't see anything out in front and just shook my head and called myself a silly bugger.Then the fox I was working in appeared and I started to raise the .17 and he took off like scalded cat.I swore and stood up and a very nasty growl came from behind me.I turned real slow and there was the ugliest wild dog I ever layed eyes on.He was laying down about 15 yards behind me looking at the two foxes I had skinned.I put two .17's in him as quick as I could. Seems from what Edip said dogs are a universal problem. There is a place near the gins leap up north where most people feel uneasy.Two or three aboriginal women jumped to their death from a cliff.If you hunt goats there you always give it a wide berth.Macca.
	don't let the bastards grind you down.