Crazy how the mind works.

[Broken arrow]

Was sitting here thinking about my elk hunt and something funny to me....
I was hundreds of miles from home alone miles from the nearest road in a place that an injury can put you up you know what creek without a paddle. Bears mountain lions ever changing weather yet I never felt afraid worried slept like a baby. Yet here in mo I really don't like walking around in the woods in the dark much. Can't help but laugh at myself.

[cnelk]

Different predators = Different thoughts

[JohnFitzgerald]

Different predators = Different thoughts

+1. Be aware of the 4 legged predators and be worried about the 2 legged.

[Swede]

I agree with the above posts. I have little or no worries about being in the forest. Even after dark I am comfortable out there alone. You could not get me to take a walk after dark in many parts of Portland. In fact I would just as soon not go there at all. There are just too many crazy animals there.

[>>>---WW---->]

I'd be afraid about walking around some of those Missouri hills even in the daylight, let alone after dark. Some of them fellers with good recipes can get mighty protective if you know what I mean. LOL!

[Broken arrow]

All joking aside. If you've every had a pack of yodies follow you barking and yipping never showing themselves. I can tell you it'll make the hair on your neck stand up!

[Swede]

I have heard a lot of coyotes over the years. Some were close, but I have never been concerned that I was on their menu. I have never had them purposefully follow me. It has been my observation, a bow hunter has to be very careful to get set and draw their bow to be able to shoot one. I suppose I could have shot a few, but I remember only shooting one from a tree stand.

[Triplebhunters]

That's funny broken arrow. I don't camp in, I camp at trail head, but was talking to the wife about the growth of rino gonads out west. Confidence and contentment are building to the point I reminded myself to remember to respect the wild. Now i have to buy a holster for my 40 and remember to respect the wild, two and four legged animals. And we all know two legged are more dangerous.

[ishy]

I did get a littl enervous this year, just because of the wallow I sat was so far in and very few people knew right where I was none of them close enough to do anything if there wsa a problem. It was over the top steep with deadfall and that made me nervous in the dark...then it rained and it was almost impossible to navigate in the dark without acouple of falls each trip. I have taken a mtn lion while elk hunting before at 20 yards, but still don't pack heat. Each year I think about it, and get closer the more wolves I hear around my area.

[Mikeha33]

Maybe you saw my post about my cougar encounter that I had in CO this year, but looking back on the whole situation, I think the thing that scared me the most, and was most nerve-wracking about the whole ordeal was the endless thoughts and possibilities and dark places my mind went after the ordeal, and the 2 mile hike back to camp, alone, and in the dark, for my first mountain hunt.
Definitely crazy how it works.