Good for a Laugh

[rardoin]

Your coyote experience reminds me of a trapping incident when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I had leg trapped a opossum, whacked him in the base of the skull with my lead filled hatchet handle and put it in my pack. Later on while heading back home from running that line I kept hearing a growl behind me. It kept getting louder so I took off running and tripped while jumping a little gully. As I came to my knees I felt something wet on my right cheek and as I turned my head I got a glimpse of opossum snout. I set a Guinness record for backpack removal that morn. I think he was just enjoying the ride...me..not so much!

 

[nakneker]

I lived Alaska in Bristol Bay for three years. Lots of brown bears and few stories.

Your coyote experience reminds me of a trapping incident when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I had leg trapped a opossum, whacked him in the base of the skull with my lead filled hatchet handle and put it in my pack. Later on while heading back home from running that line I kept hearing a growl behind me. It kept getting louder so I took off running and tripped while jumping a little gully. As I came to my knees I felt something wet on my right cheek and as I turned my head I got a glimpse of opossum snout. I set a Guinness record for backpack removal that morn. I think he was just enjoying the ride...me..not so much!

The things we wish we had on video

 

[CTK]

Funniest bear story I heard that involved my lodge in Bristol Bay is as follows;

The season after I left, our camp hand/ guide scored a date with the girl that drove the cab from King Salmon to Naknek. This gal was absolutely a "10" by King Salmon standards.
He took cab girl to Naknek for a pizza. Probably 60 dollar pizza. They went in her cab.
Apparently the date progressed to drinks in his cabin tent. No idea if romance was in the air but things took an immediate turn for the worse.
Right outside the cabin/tend bear had torn the back door off of the cab and was partly in the back seat eating the pizza.
Very expensive pizza was lost as well as major damage done to the cab. Car repair is not super easy in King Salmon.

 

[nakneker]

Funniest bear story I heard that involved my lodge in Bristol Bay is as follows;

The season after I left, our camp hand/ guide scored a date with the girl that drove the cab from King Salmon to Naknek. This gal was absolutely a "10" by King Salmon standards.
He took cab girl to Naknek for a pizza. Probably 60 dollar pizza. They went in her cab.
Apparently the date progressed to drinks in his cabin tent. No idea if romance was in the air but things took an immediate turn for the worse.
Right outside the cabin/tend bear had torn the back door off of the cab and was partly in the back seat eating the pizza.
Very expensive pizza was lost as well as major damage done to the cab. Car repair is not super easy in King Salmon.

Ive driven the road between Naknek and King Salmon too many times, eaten too many of those high dollar pizzas, dealt with bears, never seen or even heard of a"10"in the area, lol --- crazy place. The winters were a blast!

 

[CTK]

Ive driven the road between Naknek and King Salmon too many times, eaten too many of those high dollar pizzas, dealt with bears, never seen or even heard of a"10"in the area, lol --- crazy place. The winters were a blast!

Please read that I qualified the "10" as by King Salmon standards. Probably a legit lower 48 "7". Cute girl. Do you figure she ever got hit on up there?

 

[jonbearman]

I love your story as we all have done things that wouldn't be the best today but they did what we needed to do. Thanks for sharing. I have a Remington 700 with a varmint weight barrel and it is 19 1/2 inches long. Great for close quarters and the ball of flames is impressive at dusk. I had the same operation and they did 3 laminectomys on me with 3 months recovery. It takes about 6 months to a year to feel normal again. Don't lift any weight for a good long time to let the muscle tissue get real strong where they cut into you.

 

[nakneker]

Please read that I qualified the "10" as by King Salmon standards. Probably a legit lower 48 "7". Cute girl. Do you figure she ever got hit on up there?

Of course, the man to woman ratio is scary.

 

[CTK]

Please read that I qualified the "10" as by King Salmon standards. Probably a legit lower 48 "7". Cute girl. Do you figure she ever got hit on up there?

Many fun times at the Kinko and a couple of dicey evenings a the Red Dog. The Red Dog probably is the best place to get your ass kicked in a bar fight that I have ever seen. Burgers at Eddies. also ate several of the expensive pizzas.

 

[ebb]

I bought a 22-250 from a friend that lost his firearms rights that was a real shooter with the Remington 55 grain SPs also. It came with most of a case that were bought cause they were the same lot no as the ones he tried and liked. It had a 26 inch barrel as it came from the factory, and had a nick name also. It was "death" and was used in a tower boat on the Kissimmee rive to shoot critters out in the pastures. I wish I had never sold it! Stubby wasn't a mistake if you enjoyed it! Thanks for the story! There is a place in Kenansville FL that may run a close second on getting your ass kicked with out having to work at it much.

 

[CTK]

I bought a 22-250 from a friend that lost his firearms rights that was a real shooter with the Remington 55 grain SPs also. It came with most of a case that were bought cause they were the same lot no as the ones he tried and liked. It had a 26 inch barrel as it came from the factory, and had a nick name also. It was "death" and was used in a tower boat on the Kissimmee rive to shoot critters out in the pastures. I wish I had never sold it! Stubby wasn't a mistake if you enjoyed it! Thanks for the story! There is a place in Kenansville FL that may run a close second on getting your ass kicked with out having to work at it much.

Loud and clear on the ass kicked potential in central FL. Had a near miss in Lake City. Stopped there to refuel and spend the night on our way to the Bahamas. Lake City has a combination airport and dive bar in one. Made the mistake of having a beer and playing pool there.

 

[ebb]

There are buildings in Lake City that are bigger than the whole town of Kenansville. I don't know if it is still open but the Desert Inn was a lively place, and a bar with dancing called the Red Rooster (I think that's right) was the hot spot on the weekends. One of the Adams that own the Adams ranch had a pet deer that was a monster by central Florida standards, it wound up in the local taxidermists shop and when it was ready to be picked up all the hands from the ranch were waiting on the fellow that poached it, I was told it wasn't pretty.