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 strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:11 AM
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:17 AM
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txshntr
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She was 5' 2", blonde, elusive, and so strange I still haven't figured her out  Interesting topic. Hope they post pictures 
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:38 AM
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stxranchman
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Seen a midget hunting from a treestand with a bow once. 
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:40 AM
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txshntr
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:43 AM
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Crap my hunting fields must be boring as i've seen nothing more strange than a squirrel. Now if I'm allowed to use my imagination and put dead things together - I could create a turducken though! Earl
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 03:49 AM
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Saw a stud of a Waterbuck near Doss, just across the barb wire fence from where I was WT hunting.  Still not sure where he escaped from. Saw Waterbuck and Scimitar while hunting on the King (LF). They must have come across from the Yturria. Growing up in Hays Co, I once saw a pair of very large antelope in the quarry off of 1626. Still not sure what they were. Finally, hunting down in Rock Springs I had a stag roaring nearby. Never could get him to come in.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 04:00 AM
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Mike Garcia
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Seen a midget hunting from a treestand with a bow once. makes me think of my old friend who was a lil guy. He was an avid hunter and his girl friend had the smart idea of buying him some snake boots. Told me he had to cut them shorter so they wont hit his junk lol. 
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 04:18 AM
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Nathan Nelson
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 Saw this bad boy in Tanzania about 45 yards from my tent one morning. Does he count?
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04/12/12 06:35 AM
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one evening while doing some work on a ranch in leaky, saw a herd of 5 elk, 2 bulls and 3 cows run across the hwy in front of my truck.
some hunter got lucky that year
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 12:17 PM
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I watched a blue indigo slowly kill and eat a 3 foot rattle snake 10 yards from my blind. It only took the blue indigo about 10 minutes to kill and eat the entire snake. then he just crawled of and into a wood pile about 60 yards away. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen while hunting. If I had had a camera I know national geographic would have paid for this video.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 01:44 PM
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jackg
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saw a White as in snow white Coyote while deer hunting in Ga
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 01:53 PM
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saw a White as in snow white Coyote while deer hunting in Ga That's funny you mentioned that. Several weeks ago I was watching some guys from Colorado that were varmit hunting in Georgia or Alabama I can't remember but one of the guys shot at and missed a beautiful solid black coyote. I'd love to have one of those in my trophy room. Later Baker
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A true friend reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
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04/12/12 02:07 PM
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Was walking to the blind one afternoon and noticed a huge turkey track. It was massive. Then I saw the "turkey" which was actually an Emu. It never saw me and I couldn't get a shot off either. Nobody believed me til papaw saw it a week later. I was 14 at the time. And then saw a mountain lion several years later driving to work, not 2 miles from Kirby lake south of Abilene.
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04/12/12 02:17 PM
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I know my dad has seen a Mexican crossing the border.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 02:24 PM
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Seen a midget hunting from a treestand with a bow once. That had to be one short ata bow!!!!!
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 08:42 PM
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stxranchman
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Seen a midget hunting from a treestand with a bow once. That had to be one short ata bow!!!!! No I think it was a kids pink colored bow with a 12" draw length
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 08:47 PM
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I have seen lots of differents species of exotics free range including Emu walking along right beside the highway. I have also seen a dead porcupine on Hwy 624 about 20 miles east of Cotulla in La Salle County. I have seen white color phase Road Runners in Atascosa and La Salle counties along with blonde color phase raccoons in Colorado County. Seen white color phase but not albino whitetails also on free range ranches. Seen some birds on ranches that I have only seen that one time and did not know what species they were.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 10:04 PM
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Saw a Rhea outside of Del Rio
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/12/12 11:56 PM
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Seen a black buck feeding in a wheat field while deer huntin. May not seem weird to most but I was in fisher county, not sure where the nearest high fence is now this was 10 years ago before there were any near there I believe. Had to go to the house and dig thru national geographics and encyclopedia's , no computer in the house I grew up in, to find out what it was. Seen a tom turkey 3 years ago that was nearly solid white, in full strut for the ladies. I thought he was farm raised til I spoke to the land owner, who said he was wild and had been there a while, and if I killed it that would be the last time I hunted his place.
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04/13/12 12:48 AM
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Does a rattlesnake in a igloo cooler count? Or is that considered high fence?
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Re: strangest animal you've seen free range?
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04/13/12 02:17 AM
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Seen a midget hunting from a treestand with a bow once. That had to be one short ata bow!!!!! No I think it was a kids pink colored bow with a 12" draw length It was RED!!!! And for the record, it is a full 13" And if you are going to tell the story, get it right...might have looked like a tree, but it was only a ficus
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04/13/12 02:22 AM
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Seen a black buck feeding in a wheat field while deer huntin. May not seem weird to most but I was in fisher county, not sure where the nearest high fence is now this was 10 years ago before there were any near there I believe. Had to go to the house and dig thru national geographics and encyclopedia's , no computer in the house I grew up in, to find out what it was. Seen a tom turkey 3 years ago that was nearly solid white, in full strut for the ladies. I thought he was farm raised til I spoke to the land owner, who said he was wild and had been there a while, and if I killed it that would be the last time I hunted his place. I don't know about Fisher Co. ten years ago, but now atleast west of Rotan we are covered in random exotics.
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04/13/12 02:59 AM
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We had two solid white turkeys that stayed on our place for three years and ran with a group of other regular turkey. Took a bit to figure what was coming through the woods the first time I saw them.
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04/13/12 09:00 PM
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Sitting in my tree stand on my property years ago. Saw a girl running on my place, went right under my stand and stop. She dropped her pants and started to pee. I was shocked and could not say a word! Hunted that tree stand many more times and never saw her again lol...
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04/13/12 09:39 PM
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its not every day kind of strange but it definitely was for where our ranch is in schulenburg. was out planting sunflowers for dove season and while i was on the tractor i saw a large doe walking down one of the roads, and it had spots. that doe ended up being an axis doe. probably got away from a HF place but i had always dreamed about being in a bow stand and having an exotic walk under me. seeing that doe definitely got my hopes up
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