Scariest moment of this year

[Drache]

I figured after this happened to me just yesterday, I'd like to hear other stories about your scariest moment OF THIS YEAR!

I was out hiking yesterday on the mountain behind my property. I always make sure to carry one of my rifles with me whenever I go just incase. We have had many sitings of bear, cougar, and the most sited had to do with a pack of wolves that have been on this mountain for many years, lead by a huge black wolf! We've had Conservation Officers out here a couple times due to the pack killing animals but the black wolf never gets caught.

Anyways Im hiking away when I heard movement in the underbrush. It was one of the hugest grouse Ive ever seen. As I was watching her I heard a twig snap 50 feet up higher and to my left on the hill. I looked up expecting a deer and almost shit myself (I swear to God). All I could see was a HUGE black canine face staring at me from the shade of the trees.

My hands were shaking as I unslung the rifle from my back and took a couple steps back slowly (knees were shaking). It took a step closer towards me so I brought the rifle up to my shoulders and put the crosshairs on it's forehead but kept my finger off the trigger as my grandfather taught me. Thats when I noticed it had a weird marking on its chest.

Turns out it was a huge black husky/german shepard from a couple properties down from mine. It then took off after the grouse and I went back home as quickly as my legs would take me.

Probably seems stupid to most but so far its the scariest moment for me this year.

[skip68]

Watch out for animals in the woods.  I've felt better having a pistol on me. I've had a few close calls with our mountain lion back in Ca.  We had one that lived on our ranch and I shot above it to scare it off a few times but it would keep coming back.  Now Mrs. Skip Got scared real good one night when I decided  (after a few beers)  to run at it yelling in the dark up in the woods above our house with NO gun.    I went about 50 yards up the hill chasing it off but that dam cat came back the next night.  We have lots of mountain lion stories because this cat made its den on the hill above our house 80 feet away from the back corner of our house FOR TWO YEARS.    Fish & Game would NOT relocate the lion because we we're too rural.  They said for some reason it felt safe living near use and would most likely do nothing.  This was a big lion that would just watch us.  OH, one time we came home late at night and it was lying on the bank of the road 10 feet from us  I backed up and turned towards it and it just laid there looking at us.  We (Mrs. skip my son and I) just looked at it and at the size of its head, "HUGE".  I opened my door and it took off.  Now around the corner about 60-70 feet  from where the lion was is our gate that I have to get out of the car to open. I was a little nervous about that but all was fine.  This is what you get when you have a 2.6 mile dirt road in the hills and your house is at the end.  We had lots of encounters out there and if you ask Mrs. skip she'll make it sound like we lived in the wild but it really WAS NOT that bad.  Drache, Be careful even of dogs. When they get in a pack you can have a real problem.   Chuck..................

[MichaelRW]

I was flippng through the channels yesterday and then I saw the most ugly, disgusting, scariest thing I had ever seen. It was Rosie O'Donnell. It was awful.

[Finn]

Last year my friend and I were pulling the engine...

"hey make sure the hoist is tight"

"which way is tight?"

"*direction*"

*CRUNCH*

*silence*

"you jackass!"

Luckily we had it over a stack of wood crates and stopped it before it broke through.

I know, I know: 

[Dave22443]

"Thanks for all your hard work this past year Dave.  We couldn't have done it without you.  However, we no longer need your services.  Your fired."

[PocketThunder]

I was flippng through the channels yesterday and then I saw the most ugly, disgusting, scariest thing I had ever seen. It was Rosie O'Donnell. It was awful.

         

"Thanks for all your hard work this past year Dave.  We couldn't have done it without you.  However, we no longer need your services.  Your fired."

    Dude that sucks!   

I would have to say watching my 3 yr old son tear down the sidewalk on his bike with training wheels heading for the intersection and wondering if he is going to stop or blast thru it and get run over.  Everytime he does stops, so i feel better that he knows a car might be comming, but you never know sometimes.

Or when i come home from playing poker down the street at my friends house and i stumble in the door at 1:30 and my spouse told me to be home by midnight... 

[Dave22443]

    Dude that sucks!   

Actually, its turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  It's given me a lot of time to work on my Mopars and spend a LOT more time with my kids.  I was pretty pissed and scared at first, but now I'm starting to think of it simply as an early retirement. 

[71ChallengeHer]

The scariest moment I had this week is when I went to check on the Chally. And there was a Camaro fender cover on it.

[Silver R/T]

umm...that's why I stay out of the woods.

[Drache]

umm...that's why I stay out of the woods.

My house is in the MIDDLE of the woods 

[Silver R/T]

honestly Im more scared of PEOPLE that are around my area than deer, coyotes, etc. running around. All these drunk drivers, meth heads, child molesters creep me out.