No not really but I did have some problems with one at work.. We had a sow with cubs that kept getting in the dumpster.. My issue was for some reason when I would go outside she always thought I was her waiter.. I work 2nd shift and when I would go out at night she would popup and head right towards me.. So I definitely got in the habit of looking around as I went to my car..I have some funny pics of when they bear proofed the dumpster.. She came up realized she couldn't open the lid so she climbed up and in all of a few seconds slid in between the doors.

Was it good for you too, Brian?

Brian isn't talking about that.   Sore subject.  Well, something was sore anyway.
   
ChuckC

After surviving one Grizzly attack in Montana back in '85, I was out again in '89 with the same guide and YES...I was always throwing glances over my shoulder ESPECIALLY

After surviving one Grizzly attack in Montana back in '85, I was out again in '89 with the same outfitter and YES...I was always throwing glances over my shoulder ESPECIALLY when we were heading off the Mountains at dark....  

Grizzly attack that sucks!! U must be 1 tuff cat, great story to tell ur grandkids, i would like to hear it too. Did u kill him?? I had to ask.

After the third night in a row that he attacked me; he said " you ain't up here for the hunting are you boy?".
 

     
No sir
ChuckC

joe skipp, your grizzly attack wouldn't have been the one with Billy Hill out of the Trout Creek area, would it?  Just curious.

Yes...that was it.

I love this thread!

Joe, you're lucky to be alive, but you already know that!  I hunted elk with him not long after your experience.  Same area -- and you bet, he checked his backtrail, even though we weren't bear hunting.  Ran into several blackies, but no grizzlies.  

I know...I arrowed that Grizzly at 4ft....thats too close for me...  

Aw man, you guys are just trying to scare newbies so that you would have all the game!  Great stories. Quinn

Joe. this story may have been told before... but would you mind  repeating ?  Especially if there is some sort of teaching / warning for the rest of us ?

ChuckC

When in the woods period Huntin or not I always check my 6,Marine thing I guess.
   Here in CA when hunting Blacktail you always check your 6, they have a habit of laying low and trying to sneak away behind you....
   As a teenager I had an incounter with a bear, I was sniffed from one end to the other and nudged with nose a few times....
   Heck I check my 6 walking down the street....

I dont worry about it at all....I know with no doubt on demand I can scream like a b...h loud enough to shatter any bear's nerve. And glass.

And run. I can run. A panther screamed once, right over my head up on a bluff about ten feet high, and I missed everything else till I was totally out of the woods. Ran that fast.

While hunting Oregon and Washington, I always check my backtrail. I know the chance of a bear or cougar being nearby is pretty good and the hair on the back of my neck stands up from time to time, but I think I am just freaking myself out most of the time.

When in Ohio last October, I didn't get that at all, because there are not suppose to be cougars in that area and I felt very comfortable heading to my stand an hour before daylight.

I'm always looking over my shoulder, mostly because I've played so many pranks on my buddies I just know one of them is trying sneak up on me.

The thought of the Florida Skunk Ape getting me has absolutely nothing to do with it!!

I remember as a kid hunting near a graveyard with dad. I kept running into him 'cause I couldn't see him-it was that dark. But I could see a large tombstone in the graveyard about 50 yards away. And I'm certain if I had gotten any closer the Skunk Ape was going to jump out from behind that marker and drag me off.

I worry more about Don's skunk apes than the bears. I KNOW what bears are like. Don