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Animal attacks on hunters do happen

By Terry Knight Record-Bee outdoors columnist

Hunting can be hazardous to your health. Thats a lesson a pair of Nevada

turkey hunters learned on that states opening weekend of the 2006 spring

turkey season.

According to a story in the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper, Tom Bird and

son Ryan of Smith Valley were hunting turkeys in the Mason Valley Wildlife

Refuge, where they had an unusual encounter with a mountain lion. They had set

out a pair of turkey decoys and were calling from a blind when a mountain suddenly attacked the decoys. Tom fired his shotgun to scare away the lion and thats when it turned and attacked the hunters. Tom fired again and killed the lion, which was an adult weighing about 120 pounds. Apparently

the lion had been drawn to the area by the sounds of a yelping hen simulated by

the hunters.

Actually this is nothing new. A few years ago a friend of mine was turkey

hunting near Redding and a coyote responded to his turkey call and actually

jumped on the hunter. The hunter said that once the coyote realized that the

hunter wasnt a turkey, it took off running.

Many turkey hunters say they have called in coyotes and even the occasional

mountain lion. One turkey hunter even told me he once called in a

hungry bear.

I had a similar experience many years ago while turkey hunting near Lake

Shasta. I left Lakeport at 2 a.m. in order to arrive in the hunting area

before daylight. I hunted hard all day and didnt see a turkey. I planned to

sleep in the back of my pickup and took along some fried chicken for dinner.

That evening I was sitting near the pickup eating the chicken when a huge

bear showed up. He walked right up to me. I yelled at him and he just

trotted away.

About 9 p.m. I decided to go to bed. I laid my sleeping bag in

the bed of the truck and placed my pillow on the tail gate. In a few minutes

I was fast asleep. About midnight I felt someone shaking me. It turned out

to be another hunter that was driving by and saw the bear actually sniffing

my face. He yelled at the bear and it ran off. We figured that the bear had

smelled the chicken on my lips. I can just imagine what would have happened

if the hunter hadnt come along to wake me up.

Another time I was out scouting for turkeys in the Mendocino National Forest

prior to the opening of the season. It had been raining and the roads were

muddy. I was walking down an old logging road near Elk Mountain when I

spotted fresh mountain lion tracks in the road. The tracks were so fresh

that water was still running into them. Needless to say I beat a hasty

retreat back to my truck.

A friend of mine was once even attacked by an angry bull while turkey

hunting. The hunter had gained permission to hunt on a ranch and was sitting

beneath a large tree calling turkeys when a large bull showed up. The bull

ran the hunter up the tree and then stayed under the tree for more than an

hour. The hunter finally attracted the attention of a nearby field hand, who

chased away the bull.

A few years ago a bowhunter that I know wounded a large wild boar near

Redding. The wounded boar charged the hunter and knocked him down and then

gored him with his tusks. Another hunter shot and killed the boar. The

injured hunter was hospitalized for nearly

a month.

Most wild creatures are very wary and stay away from humans. Its called

survival. However, every once in a while a wild animal will ignore common

sense and react to a humans presence. Its the old story of we being in

their territory.

Mvh
Kim

Jeg er ikke fejlfri,men det er så tæt på at det skræmmer mig.
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