Lots of encounters but little concerns. I don't know if I have told this before but.
Several years ago, I was hunting under a power line. her come one doe almost into my lap. then came another and as I was about to draw the bow back here came a wolf in hot pursuit, then another. I switched my attention to them. They paid me no mind and continued after the second doe. Really didn't have time to get a shot at them and then maybe one or both would have come after me. They were within 20 ft or so. Don't let anyone tell you there are or were no wolves in Tn.
A second time I stumbled across one while hunting squirrels. I whistled and he turned and growled and came toward me. I emptied the .22 into him.
I was hunting deer another time and I was approaching noon. Deer that feed early lay down about 10 or 11 unless hunted hard.
A covey of quail emerged from the woods and walked on my left side and slightly ahead. One in particular would turn and call. They kept pace on the dirt road for quite a while until I turned off. Really quite sociable. Don't think I could hunt them now.
Went hunting, and it was cold as blazes. I laid down near a small water fall and fell asleep in the bright sunshine. Woke up and a Grouse was in a tree above me. I called to him or she and it nodded around. I started walking back toward the old mine and it followed me in the trees to my left and above. It followed me past the mine and nearly to the truck, about 3 miles.
Got a Opossum in the trap right now. It was eating the cat's food.
That will be an encounter when I try to loose it without being bitten.
I didn't finish about the two does and two wolves.
The first doe ran right behind me and laid down in some brush along the clear cut right of way. I turned toward the direction the does and wolves were running and she stood up gave me a look and ran off.
At least she escaped that day. I could have taken her right then but oh well.
In deer season 1975, I remember the date because the next July two thieves broke in our home and stole all my firearms.
I was using a deer call and sitting in a small copse of trees with a frequently traveled lane right into my lap.
After a bit I see something bobbing aways off. When it got closer I saw that it was a coyote. He was lopping right toward me moving his head side to side checking the understory.
I gathered myself to ether tensed up thumb on hammer of the .30-30 and brought the gun up when he was about 50 ft away. Before I could get the gun to my shoulder and the hammer back he turned and was flying back the way he came and I was real quick about it but not as quick as him. I have wondered if he would have run into my lap if I had let him because he didn't see me until I moved.
