RIP Shelley Duvall

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10 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Never go lamping with the memory of a horror film in your mind. Two o'clock in the morning and a branch brushing against your face or a vixen's scream can makes you feel like the prey and not the predator.Lol

Walking the woods at night with no artificial light is even worse especially on your own. 

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10 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Never go lamping with the memory of a horror film in your mind. Two o'clock in the morning and a branch brushing against your face or a vixen's scream can makes you feel like the prey and not the predator.Lol

A couple of years ago , a mate and myself were out looking for foxes( on Halloween),  at a wildlife centre / petting zoo , type place. This place had a woodland walk , along a valley floor . 

We'd walked about half a mile , stopping every few yards to have a look with the thermal . As we approached a blind bend in the path , the most blood curdling screaming and howling , blasted into my ear from the blackness ,  from about three feet away .  I almost shat my feckin undercrackers !. When I finally got the torch out of my pocket , I saw the speaker thing strapped to a tree , that had a sensor on it , that got triggered when kids walked past on their Halloween school trips .

Not much really troubles me when I'm out having a mooch in the dark , but that feckin thing put the fear of God into me that night.

I still think that my mate wet his pants , but we never speak of it .

Once our heart rates had returned to normal,  and we'd both tried to convince each other that we weren't really scared , my mate had a look through the thermal , and three muntjac were standing and watching us from about ten yards away .

It was even more scary , than the time that I thought I had a dozen aliens following me in the dark, but that's a whole other story .

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One of the scary moments for me was mooching about in a big wood for a few pheasants and it wasn't the best of nights weather wise with not much wind and a could ear a farm dog barking not all that far away then after a few minutes it stopped after dropping a few birds with the 410 I stepped onto a wide path to see a black shadow coming towards me growling I shot off the path and put my back to a large oak tree to see a doberman that must have been the farmer's come close but it just had a sniff around and feked off thankfully I also feked off though a lot faster than the doberman might I ad. 

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I can remember having a conversation with a keeper who was only about 15 yards away. I told him not  to be a hero and try and lay hands on me. I informed him I would do a deal, I wouldn't come back to this area. He said absolutely nothing. After a stand off and much peering through the gloom, I realised the keeper was a tree.

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30 minutes ago, mel b said:

A couple of years ago , a mate and myself were out looking for foxes( on Halloween),  at a wildlife centre / petting zoo , type place. This place had a woodland walk , along a valley floor . 

We'd walked about half a mile , stopping every few yards to have a look with the thermal . As we approached a blind bend in the path , the most blood curdling screaming and howling , blasted into my ear from the blackness ,  from about three feet away .  I almost shat my feckin undercrackers !. When I finally got the torch out of my pocket , I saw the speaker thing strapped to a tree , that had a sensor on it , that got triggered when kids walked past on their Halloween school trips .

Not much really troubles me when I'm out having a mooch in the dark , but that feckin thing put the fear of God into me that night.

I still think that my mate wet his pants , but we never speak of it .

Once our heart rates had returned to normal,  and we'd both tried to convince each other that we weren't really scared , my mate had a look through the thermal , and three muntjac were standing and watching us from about ten yards away .

It was even more scary , than the time that I thought I had a dozen aliens following me in the dark, but that's a whole other story .

That story made me pee myself a bit.

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53 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

That story made me pee myself a bit.

I can chuckle about it now , but it was one of the scariest moments of my life. I could hear my pulse racing in my ears .

The aliens thing was pretty scary as well .

I shoot a paddock that had a small hill , riddled with rabbit holes . I used to love laying on top of the hill on a warm evening , and shooting rabbits as they came out to feed. I'd take a shot , then lay my head down and have a sleep , until more rabbits popped out.

I'd been laying out one warm summer Saturday night. It was about two am , and I'd got a few rabbits to find , so I thought I'd pick them up , and call it a night .   I'd picked up a couple , when I heard a bit of a thump in the corner of the paddock behind me.  Thinking that it would be another rabbit , I turned my night vision on , and raised the gun to the corner of the field .    Well. In the corner of the field was a dozen aliens , with long faces , dazzling eyes , and long thin legs , all walking towards me . I almost feckin fainted . I thought.   " so this is how it all ends , with anal probing , by aliens that I never even feckin believed in" , it frightened the life out of me .  I was backing away from the aliens for a few seconds , and mentally preparing to take several of them to the grave with me , when my brain caught up with itself , and I realised that it was a group of young bullocks , that I hadn't seen over the other side of the hill , and they'd backed themselves into the corner , and were all watching me in the dark .   With the aid of night vision , and an overactive imagination,  I could see those long alien faces , and their thin alien legs .

 

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I was long netting one night and was just packing up. I had 13 rabbits with their legs criss crosed on a stick. A milking herd of friesans surrounded me curiously. I carried on walking totally unconcerned when one of the cows leapt into the air on all fours and let out a mighty bellow. I realised immediately it was a bull, dropped everything and legged it like Usain Bolt. Fortunately the bull was more interested in my dropped gear and concentrated on rubbing it's head on that.

I waited about half an hour until the herd moved away. When I went back I found my gear and rabbits full of shit and my net ruined. Hey ho,you win some, lose a lot.

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14 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

I was long netting one night and was just packing up. I had 13 rabbits with their legs criss crosed on a stick. A milking herd of friesans surrounded me curiously. I carried on walking totally unconcerned when one of the cows leapt into the air on all fours and let out a mighty bellow. I realised immediately it was a bull, dropped everything and legged it like Usain Bolt. Fortunately the bull was more interested in my dropped gear and concentrated on rubbing it's head on that.

I waited about half an hour until the herd moved away. When I went back I found my gear and rabbits full of shit and my net ruined. Hey ho,you win some, lose a lot.

That one could have got really serious,  really quickly juke .