I'm not sure which was more frightening - the bullet that hit the ground beside me in Colorado or the bear shaking our camper in the middle of the night while bear hunting in Wisconsin! Needless to say, I avoid the woods during hunting season... :o)



>>I have a lot of friends from Texas, but I have to admit that having a near death experience due to one lone rich hunter in the rockies was enough! I used to live on a boyscout ranch - Camp Tahosa - outside of Ward, CO and every year Texans came up and roamed the mountains hunting (especially the illegal areas). They would shoot at anything that moved and when I was 15 I guess I looked too much like an Elk because one almost shot me. It was two or three years later Denver and Dallas made it to the SuperBowl. Grrrrrrrrr.... :o)
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>>>>>Oh yeah I forgot. It's the "anyone but the Cowboys" conspiracy. :)
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>>>>You're DARN right about that. (That stems from my years living in Colorado) :o)
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>>>Where Texans are SO beloved <g>.
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>Tracy,
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>Had a similar experience when I was 18, only it was New Yorkers hunting in Vermont. I went into a patch of woods after a deer and all of a sudden bullets were whipping past me. Fortunately, there was a large tree between me and them - it stopped at least 3 of the half dozen or so shots fired at me. The deer was about 50 feet off to my left at the time.