QUOTE(Kite-Squatch @ Sep 1 2008, 08:05 PM) 
Or maybe BLUE THUNDER....
Thats a Bad-ass pic!
Thats a Bad-ass pic!
QUOTE(Squatch_bait @ Sep 4 2008, 07:06 PM)
This did not happen to me so it is a second level story. You may remember the two Texans who became hunters and poachers, back from VIetnam. One of them talked on a radio show that you can find on the net and explained how, in the eighties, he killed one BF thinking it was a bear, and then while coming back later to see it closely, his female was squatting next to him, she raised and turned to them, angry. So they shot her as well and buried the two of them because they looked so human that they thought for a moment they had killed two hillbillies.
Well during this radio show, one BF hunter invited to be the analyst, and who had several BF sightings to talk about, talked about the time when he went hunting deers in a remote area. The first night they heard BF doing their dog and poney show, yells, tree noise and other intimidation gestures they are famous for. In the morning they decided to take a trail closeby to follow the deer they saw the day before while setting camp. About 100 feet on that trail, they found a single tree branch planted in the middle of the trail, about six feet high, with a deer eye stuck on the top of it, looking straight down the trail at them! They decided that the big guy did not want them to be around and was probably looking at them as he seemed to imply in his message, so they turned around and left the area. Who said we cannot communicate with an hominoid! Creepy language though!
Well during this radio show, one BF hunter invited to be the analyst, and who had several BF sightings to talk about, talked about the time when he went hunting deers in a remote area. The first night they heard BF doing their dog and poney show, yells, tree noise and other intimidation gestures they are famous for. In the morning they decided to take a trail closeby to follow the deer they saw the day before while setting camp. About 100 feet on that trail, they found a single tree branch planted in the middle of the trail, about six feet high, with a deer eye stuck on the top of it, looking straight down the trail at them! They decided that the big guy did not want them to be around and was probably looking at them as he seemed to imply in his message, so they turned around and left the area. Who said we cannot communicate with an hominoid! Creepy language though!
Are you thinking of the Art Bell show?
That eye on the branch story is freaky!
QUOTE(vilnoori @ Sep 5 2008, 04:22 PM)
Are you thinking of the Art Bell show?
That eye on the branch story is freaky!
That eye on the branch story is freaky!
That was definitely from the Art Bell show with "Bugs" - the eyeball things reminds me of the movie "Congo" where the ape throws that guy's eye at another, he thinks it's fruit until....*scream*
wow!!! blue thunder!!!
havnt seen that in years.
too bad that loading a M61 on the front of a gazelle along with all the other stuff probably would create one hell of a turkey of a helocopter. i think roy even comments on that in the movie.
and wtf a police helo need a 20mm for anyway?
this was shades of things to come if ya think about it, police needing heavy mil gear.
ok, this has been another off-topic shaman post!!!
havnt seen that in years.
too bad that loading a M61 on the front of a gazelle along with all the other stuff probably would create one hell of a turkey of a helocopter. i think roy even comments on that in the movie.
and wtf a police helo need a 20mm for anyway?
this was shades of things to come if ya think about it, police needing heavy mil gear.
ok, this has been another off-topic shaman post!!!
QUOTE(shaman @ Sep 5 2008, 09:57 PM)
wow!!! blue thunder!!!
havnt seen that in years.
havnt seen that in years.
It is - or was - available on DVD. I picked-up a disk last year.
The scene of what's-her-name getting stopped by the police on the bridge, then Blue Thunder popping up from behind the bridge, is just priceless....
QUOTE(17x7 @ Jul 30 2008, 12:59 AM)
Saw something weird today. I drive a delivery van (home medical supplies) and was making a delivery to a remote customer today. His home is miles off into the hills of the Coast Range of Oregon. The road winds sharply up a series of switchback corners climbing a steep ridge. As I reached the crest of the ridge, I noticed movement out the window that looks over the valley below. It was a C-130 aircraft hugging the terrain of the valley below me! I was looking down on this HUGE aircraft as it was hard-banking to follow the valley about 500 ft over the trees. I whipped off the road and watched the plane continue this until it went out of view several miles away.
It was not a fire plane. It was a airship gray, USAF marked, C-130 out in the middle of nowwhere (approx 40 miles SW of Eugene, OR). The nearest military airstrip big enough for that bird to take off from has to be hundreds of miles away.
What in Helsinki was a plane that size doing barnstorming over a bunch of clear-cuts out in the middle of nowhere?!?
17x7
It was not a fire plane. It was a airship gray, USAF marked, C-130 out in the middle of nowwhere (approx 40 miles SW of Eugene, OR). The nearest military airstrip big enough for that bird to take off from has to be hundreds of miles away.
What in Helsinki was a plane that size doing barnstorming over a bunch of clear-cuts out in the middle of nowhere?!?
17x7
These planes are used as backup on very large fires.
warning: thread jack
Since fire planes were mentioned, thought I'd share a few photos I took in July while camping in Southern Oregon. A lightning storm blew threw and this is what we got to watch, and breathe unfortunately. It started a fire.
We were in the middle of where the plane was circling to get low enough to drop it's retardant. Coming from a family of forest fire fighters, and a brother who builds helicopters just for this, this was quite an exciting event to witness.
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Can you imagine being in the plane when it turns like this... and it was not a small plane.
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Dropping of the retardant.
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This was the plane's third drop. The first two he was not above this left hill, but behind it. Talk about a dangerous job.
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Then, the helicopters came in, dumping load after load of water. I just wished they took it from the river we were next to, the Rogue, but no, they filled up somewhere else.
I can't seem to find the helicopters... but they were there, really. With the naked eye you'd see them fly into the smoke, then only see their load drop.
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Since fire planes were mentioned, thought I'd share a few photos I took in July while camping in Southern Oregon. A lightning storm blew threw and this is what we got to watch, and breathe unfortunately. It started a fire.
We were in the middle of where the plane was circling to get low enough to drop it's retardant. Coming from a family of forest fire fighters, and a brother who builds helicopters just for this, this was quite an exciting event to witness.
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Can you imagine being in the plane when it turns like this... and it was not a small plane.
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Dropping of the retardant.
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This was the plane's third drop. The first two he was not above this left hill, but behind it. Talk about a dangerous job.
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Then, the helicopters came in, dumping load after load of water. I just wished they took it from the river we were next to, the Rogue, but no, they filled up somewhere else.
I can't seem to find the helicopters... but they were there, really. With the naked eye you'd see them fly into the smoke, then only see their load drop.
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Ever got a chance to fly in a water bomber? I got cleared as they double as SAR and went up in a CL-215T during training. Since these birds can fly real slow, the crew was looking for a good area on the lake to practice. During one of the low and slow passes near an island, we saw a group of people watching us, beers in hand, so we had a bit of fun. We scooped up a light load (nowhere near the 5000+ liters it can carry) and as we were circling around the pilot lined up the bird just off the island, dropped real low, then they dumped the load about 200 meters from the people. We circled around one more time dry at around 80 KIAS, and these people were arms in air, clapping, fist pumping. They got a bit of an air show.
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We weren’t BF hunting at the time, but we were 4 wheeling up in the Mt. Hood National Forest, south of Sandy, back around 1988 or so. Back then there were many more logging roads open and we used to drive around them in our Jeep. Today many of these roads are blocked off, or simply so over grown that they can’t be driven on anymore.
On this trip we were with another couple and they were in their Chevy 4x4. We would generally follow a road and take every side road until it ended and then turn around and go to the next fork, having fun in the mud and snow and generally tearing up the environment in a “pre-green” time of my life.
This one particular road we followed went through some thick brush and mud and went on for a while. We came around a hill and suddenly the road ended at what appeared to be a homeless camp. It had several rambled shacks and lots of ropes strung out with stuff hanging from the lines (clothes and such). The whole camp was under large tree canopy and it was dark and kinda spooky. There were at least 6 people we could see sitting out on boxes and chairs. The whole scene was surreal; it had semi permanent look to it and the folks looked well weathered. The people looking at us didn’t look at all pleased with our sudden arrival, in fact it felt very dangerous being there as I noticed one of the guys was holding a rifle or shotgun. He wasn’t pointing it at us, but his look indicated he was willing to use it. We backed up and turned around as fast as we could. There were no fresh tire tracks into or out of the trail/road, so these folks seemed to live off the land, I guess. This was miles and miles up in the forest, who knows how much interaction these folks had with the “normal” world.
This was years before meth became an issue, so I doubt it was a “lab”. I don’t know if these folks were hiding or simply liked to be out away from civilization. I just know they didn’t want to be bothered.
On this trip we were with another couple and they were in their Chevy 4x4. We would generally follow a road and take every side road until it ended and then turn around and go to the next fork, having fun in the mud and snow and generally tearing up the environment in a “pre-green” time of my life.
This one particular road we followed went through some thick brush and mud and went on for a while. We came around a hill and suddenly the road ended at what appeared to be a homeless camp. It had several rambled shacks and lots of ropes strung out with stuff hanging from the lines (clothes and such). The whole camp was under large tree canopy and it was dark and kinda spooky. There were at least 6 people we could see sitting out on boxes and chairs. The whole scene was surreal; it had semi permanent look to it and the folks looked well weathered. The people looking at us didn’t look at all pleased with our sudden arrival, in fact it felt very dangerous being there as I noticed one of the guys was holding a rifle or shotgun. He wasn’t pointing it at us, but his look indicated he was willing to use it. We backed up and turned around as fast as we could. There were no fresh tire tracks into or out of the trail/road, so these folks seemed to live off the land, I guess. This was miles and miles up in the forest, who knows how much interaction these folks had with the “normal” world.
This was years before meth became an issue, so I doubt it was a “lab”. I don’t know if these folks were hiding or simply liked to be out away from civilization. I just know they didn’t want to be bothered.
Offroading was a pastime for me as well, used to take my modified truck everywhere. One of the strangest things I've come across was a train that had been derailed not 10 minutes before I got there. The engines were still on the tracks, but about 6 cars had gone off the tracks and dumped their loads. What struck me as odd was that it was completely abandoned, no one in sight. I decided to go back there the next day to take photos and all of the cars were gone along with the engines. There was just a single excavator with a claw on the end and one operator stacking lumber in a pile, the lumber being what one of the cars were carrying. I was surprised at how quickly they got those cars back on the track (they made it a good 50 meters off the tracks and were dug deep into the mud...the trains do about 80-90 km/h on that stretch). Didn't get the photo op, but got some memories. It never even made the news.
QUOTE(Volsquatch @ Dec 27 2006, 09:23 AM)
We once ran across a big, dead black crow hanging upside down by one of it's feet from a string, way up in a tall tree, someone had apparently took the time to climb way up in the tree and tie it up there. Weird. Gave us the creeps and we turned around and left.
Back in the late 90's, I once found what I thought was a meteorite in an almost dry riverbed way back in the wilderness. It was a weird rock, dark in color and about the size of a football. It stood out like a sore thumb against all the other washed-out and light-colored rocks. It was a weird, dark bluish-black purply color, had a melted look to it like it had seen a lot of heat, and it was extremely heavy for it's size. It would ring like metal when tapped. It was fairly heavy and my buddy and I took turns carrying it out of there. When we got back to the parking area BOTH of our hands were swelled up so bad that we could hardly close them. No joke, it was an extremely weird feeling. I put it on Ebay as a possible meteorite with the story of how and where it was found, and it brought almost 500 dollars. The buyer emailed back and said that it was mostly comprised of Magnatite and he couldn't be sure it was a meteorite until it was tested which would cost over a 1,000 dollars(if I remember correctly). We were just excited that that a rock brought 500 bucks. Thinking back, I should've kept the damned thing.
We once found a medium sized dog wandering around with an industrial-sized salad dressing jug stuck on it's head. It had apparently stuck it's head down in the plastic jug to try and lick the dressing and couldn't get it back out. Who knows how long it had been that way or how long it had been wondering around in the wilderness. We were able to pull the jug off the dogs head and it freaked out as soon as it saw us and took off running into the woods never to be seen again.
Saw a chicken way WAY back in the wilderness once. That seemed strange at the time.
Once while on an mountain summit looking for an old USFS lookout tower location, we spotted something reflecting in the sun about 100 feet down from the summit of an adjacent mountaintop. After a lot of hiking and searching, we finally found the source - a CAR HOOD - looked like a mid-70's Ford Maverick. What the hell was a car hood doing WAY up there in that location? Still weird.
While on another hunt for an old tower location, we found a 1940's school bus parked on top of a mountain. It had "Civil Air Patrol" written on it. It was in bad shape and had been there for many many years. Had a stovepipe sticking out of it and some trash and old clothes - you could tell it had been used as a camp down through the years. I'm sure the bus is still there - would make for some great pics to post here in the future.
More weirdness - While looking for caves in a wooded area about 20 miles from here, we spotted a sink hole with a cave opening near the bottom. Upon close examination and a quick look into the opening, we saw the bodies of at least three full size horses - they had been in there for a long while. Yuck. (I had mentioned this on the forum a long time ago).
One time, when I was a teenager, me and some of my teenage buddies snuck into a nature preserve one night to fish in the large man-made lake. About 3 am, three HUGE white things silently floated across the lake illuminated by the moonlight - they sortof looked like swans but these things were monsterous, like several feet tall. Freaked us out, and no, no drugs or alcoholic beverages were involved. Heard some strange vocalizations down in the valley that night too followed by dogs barking, and yes, I did think about bigfoot at the time - in fact we all discussed that as a possibility for the sounds. We were all freaked and creeped out.
Great thread. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:
Back in the late 90's, I once found what I thought was a meteorite in an almost dry riverbed way back in the wilderness. It was a weird rock, dark in color and about the size of a football. It stood out like a sore thumb against all the other washed-out and light-colored rocks. It was a weird, dark bluish-black purply color, had a melted look to it like it had seen a lot of heat, and it was extremely heavy for it's size. It would ring like metal when tapped. It was fairly heavy and my buddy and I took turns carrying it out of there. When we got back to the parking area BOTH of our hands were swelled up so bad that we could hardly close them. No joke, it was an extremely weird feeling. I put it on Ebay as a possible meteorite with the story of how and where it was found, and it brought almost 500 dollars. The buyer emailed back and said that it was mostly comprised of Magnatite and he couldn't be sure it was a meteorite until it was tested which would cost over a 1,000 dollars(if I remember correctly). We were just excited that that a rock brought 500 bucks. Thinking back, I should've kept the damned thing.
We once found a medium sized dog wandering around with an industrial-sized salad dressing jug stuck on it's head. It had apparently stuck it's head down in the plastic jug to try and lick the dressing and couldn't get it back out. Who knows how long it had been that way or how long it had been wondering around in the wilderness. We were able to pull the jug off the dogs head and it freaked out as soon as it saw us and took off running into the woods never to be seen again.
Saw a chicken way WAY back in the wilderness once. That seemed strange at the time.
Once while on an mountain summit looking for an old USFS lookout tower location, we spotted something reflecting in the sun about 100 feet down from the summit of an adjacent mountaintop. After a lot of hiking and searching, we finally found the source - a CAR HOOD - looked like a mid-70's Ford Maverick. What the hell was a car hood doing WAY up there in that location? Still weird.
While on another hunt for an old tower location, we found a 1940's school bus parked on top of a mountain. It had "Civil Air Patrol" written on it. It was in bad shape and had been there for many many years. Had a stovepipe sticking out of it and some trash and old clothes - you could tell it had been used as a camp down through the years. I'm sure the bus is still there - would make for some great pics to post here in the future.
More weirdness - While looking for caves in a wooded area about 20 miles from here, we spotted a sink hole with a cave opening near the bottom. Upon close examination and a quick look into the opening, we saw the bodies of at least three full size horses - they had been in there for a long while. Yuck. (I had mentioned this on the forum a long time ago).
One time, when I was a teenager, me and some of my teenage buddies snuck into a nature preserve one night to fish in the large man-made lake. About 3 am, three HUGE white things silently floated across the lake illuminated by the moonlight - they sortof looked like swans but these things were monsterous, like several feet tall. Freaked us out, and no, no drugs or alcoholic beverages were involved. Heard some strange vocalizations down in the valley that night too followed by dogs barking, and yes, I did think about bigfoot at the time - in fact we all discussed that as a possibility for the sounds. We were all freaked and creeped out.
Great thread. :new_thumbsupsmileyanim:
Sled.
QUOTE(aaa @ Sep 8 2008, 11:18 PM)
Sled.
Aye Carumba!
I bet you're right!I'll have to bring this up to my old friend the next time I see him.
Coolness, thanks!
QUOTE(Volsquatch @ Sep 8 2008, 08:44 PM)
Aye Carumba! I bet you're right!
I'll have to bring this up to my old friend the next time I see him.
Coolness, thanks!
I bet you're right!I'll have to bring this up to my old friend the next time I see him.
Coolness, thanks!
Yup. Car hoods make the best sleds on the planet. You can put about a half dozen friends on it and the shape is perfect.
17x7
QUOTE(17x7 @ Sep 9 2008, 12:42 AM)
Yup. Car hoods make the best sleds on the planet. You can put about a half dozen friends on it and the shape is perfect.
17x7
17x7
You learn something new everyday
One of the best friends I had growing up had a father who owned a store. Behind the store was of course a dumpster. The lids on this dumpter were plastic and every time it would snow they would turn up missing and the dad had no idea what was going on. Well what would happen is the son would steal them. There has never been a faster sled. It wasn't as concave as one of those old classic car hoods (we had one of those too) but it was fast. real fast. In fact we used to sled down this hill that leveled out at the bottom and then there was a creek. All of the sleds would lose their momentum before ever getting near the creek. On the trial run of the Dumpster Luge, yeah we named it. It went tearing down he hill and we saw that it would not stop before it hit the creek so we all bailed off. It soared so far over the creek it started back up the hill on the other side. From that moment on we had a new sport creek jumping. So next time it snows beg, borrow or steal a plastic dumpster lid, you will either relive your childhood or mess your pants.
QUOTE(Just_reading_posts @ Sep 9 2008, 04:35 AM)
So next time it snows beg, borrow or steal a plastic dumpster lid, you will either relive your childhood or mess your pants.
Grandpa was fresh out of dumpster lids, but had a field full of car hoods (with cars still attached usually
). The old ones from the 50's had a round front, center ridge (to keep you straight) and were stout enough to be pulled back up the hill by the tractor.In retrospect, had there been more dumpsters around, there might have been far less of the other old junk (like car hoods) laying around.
17x7
QUOTE(sasmbon @ Sep 8 2008, 02:47 PM)
Ever got a chance to fly in a water bomber? I got cleared as they double as SAR and went up in a CL-215T during training. Since these birds can fly real slow, the crew was looking for a good area on the lake to practice. During one of the low and slow passes near an island, we saw a group of people watching us, beers in hand, so we had a bit of fun. We scooped up a light load (nowhere near the 5000+ liters it can carry) and as we were circling around the pilot lined up the bird just off the island, dropped real low, then they dumped the load about 200 meters from the people. We circled around one more time dry at around 80 KIAS, and these people were arms in air, clapping, fist pumping. They got a bit of an air show.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...d/CL215-263.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...d/CL215-263.JPG
Wow! LOL
QUOTE(oregonfooter @ Sep 8 2008, 01:49 AM)
Since fire planes were mentioned, thought I'd share a few photos I took in July while camping in Southern Oregon. A lightning storm blew threw and this is what we got to watch, and breathe unfortunately. It started a fire.
We were in the middle of where the plane was circling to get low enough to drop it's retardant. Coming from a family of forest fire fighters, and a brother who builds helicopters just for this, this was quite an exciting event to witness.
We were in the middle of where the plane was circling to get low enough to drop it's retardant. Coming from a family of forest fire fighters, and a brother who builds helicopters just for this, this was quite an exciting event to witness.
FWIW: Going by the third photo - which I {hopefully} included above - I think the aircraft is some version of the Lockheed Electra / P3 Orion. The Electra was a turboprop airliner - there are still a few around - and the P3 is a land-based submarine hunter used by the US Navy, which is based on the Electra. The Electra and Orion have similar engines and props {and probably a whole lot more} with the Lockheed C-130 Hercules.
That is the best sign NW!! I need to get a few of those. It does it all in one shot. No hunting, trespassing, No nuthin!! It might keep my friends and family members from using my blinds and treestands and it might keep out those damn poachers too!! 
Here in AR, it's a law that anyone who owns or leases land for hunting must have one of those Posted signs every 100 feet around the perimeter of the property. We buy them in rolls of 200.
That's the beautiful thing about Alberta Jaylee, no one owns or leases land for hunting. If you want to hunt on a particular piece of land just get a county landmap and find out who owns it and then ask if you are allowed to hunt on it. If for some reason you are not allowed, which does happen, there is plenty of crown(govt) land to hunt on if you really want too. Is it just me or is it a lot harder to find land to hunt on, especially if you don't own any, in the U.S.?
You're right, unless you own land or lease it from an individual or a timber company, it's very hard to find land to hunt here, at least in the part of the country that I'm in. There is public land to hunt in my state, but there's not any close by my area and I like hunting close to home. So, our deer club leases land from individual land owners that is managed by large timber companies. That's a good thing except for the fact that these companies have the last say in what happens to the land, and they are not above having a major cut take place during the middle of deer season. It sucks for sure, but until I win the lottery and can buy a few hundred acres of my own, it's the best I can do.
Oops, forgot to say....I have dreams about those big Alberta whitetails.
Oops, forgot to say....I have dreams about those big Alberta whitetails.
QUOTE(Just_reading_posts @ Sep 9 2008, 04:35 AM)
........................... On the trial run of the Dumpster Luge, yeah we named it. It went tearing down he hill and we saw that it would not stop before it hit the creek so we all bailed off. It soared so far over the creek it started back up the hill on the other side. From that moment on we had a new sport creek jumping. So next time it snows beg, borrow or steal a plastic dumpster lid, you will either relive your childhood or mess your pants.
Sounds fun and at first I thought BF was taking the lids. How wide is the creek and sounds like you jumped it? We had a similar sled way, and someone put two small kids on a sled and pushed them. They were so young that they failed to bail out while heading for a tree. They hit, and I ran over to help. To my relief, they just had a slight bump and scratches.
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Some people have reported seeing 3 or 4 stacked rocks that may be attributed to BF. Here is another formation that might be BF related. Along the Oregon coast there is a short trail through a level area with tall shore pine and firs that is open to see around. This area is about 2 miles from 3 or 4 BF sightings. One comes to this strange flat area that has branches stacked and woven to about 14" high. Let's call it a short fence, that is about 70' long and it ungulates around bushes and forms like a small animal corral but is not completely enclosed. It almost seems like a BF nursery and of course has some spookiness to it.
There is one home about 800 yards away, and I suppose a kid could have done this. It seems like it would take too long for kids to make. I will post a picture soon.
Has anyone seen something like this before?
It's not just the whitetails that are big in Alberta jaylee if you catch my drift.......the muleys are big too 
All kidding aside, we really do have some big muleys coming up. It is bow season now and I am after one of those monster muleys. I saw 2 small ones this morning but I am waiting for MR. BIG! Hopefully tomorrow morning he'll show up. But you are right, we have some of the best whitetail hunting on the continent. The funny thing is all the Albertans want to go to Saskatchewan to hunt their big whiteys lol. Not me though, I am happy right where I am.
Just so I stay on topic, I never did finish the story about the tackle box full of porn I found, did I? Well we'll save that for later.
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All kidding aside, we really do have some big muleys coming up. It is bow season now and I am after one of those monster muleys. I saw 2 small ones this morning but I am waiting for MR. BIG! Hopefully tomorrow morning he'll show up. But you are right, we have some of the best whitetail hunting on the continent. The funny thing is all the Albertans want to go to Saskatchewan to hunt their big whiteys lol. Not me though, I am happy right where I am. Just so I stay on topic, I never did finish the story about the tackle box full of porn I found, did I? Well we'll save that for later.
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QUOTE(AlbertaSasquatch @ Sep 17 2008, 07:27 PM)
It's not just the whitetails that are big in Alberta jaylee if you catch my drift.......the muleys are big too All kidding aside, we really do have some big muleys coming up. It is bow season now and I am after one of those monster muleys. I saw 2 small ones this morning but I am waiting for MR. BIG! Hopefully tomorrow morning he'll show up. But you are right, we have some of the best whitetail hunting on the continent. The funny thing is all the Albertans want to go to Saskatchewan to hunt their big whiteys lol. Not me though, I am happy right where I am.
Just so I stay on topic, I never did finish the story about the tackle box full of porn I found, did I? Well we'll save that for later.
edit:trying to stay on topic
All kidding aside, we really do have some big muleys coming up. It is bow season now and I am after one of those monster muleys. I saw 2 small ones this morning but I am waiting for MR. BIG! Hopefully tomorrow morning he'll show up. But you are right, we have some of the best whitetail hunting on the continent. The funny thing is all the Albertans want to go to Saskatchewan to hunt their big whiteys lol. Not me though, I am happy right where I am. Just so I stay on topic, I never did finish the story about the tackle box full of porn I found, did I? Well we'll save that for later.
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Well see...................nasty tackle box. Fellow is supposed to be fishing, pulls out his magazines, and gets distracted. BF easily sneaks up, conks him out, and takes his fish. This BF had morals and left the magazines! Besides big mama was waiting for him and a moon light dinner and some smoochie............smoochie after dinner!..........end of story.
QUOTE(NWSquatcher @ Sep 17 2008, 04:12 PM)
nice
In short the crekek was about 5 to 6 feet wide and we could jump it with 3 of us on the lid.
QUOTE(17x7 @ Sep 9 2008, 12:42 AM)
Yup. Car hoods make the best sleds on the planet. You can put about a half dozen friends on it and the shape is perfect.
17x7
Wow,does that bring back memories. When I was in high school we would chain up a 4x4 all the way around, tie a 75' (?) hank of rope behind and hook that to an old car hood and drive on the logging roads. We found that 2 guys were the limit for maneuverabilities sake. Everybody else piled in the back of the truck and laughed 'til it hurt. How nobody ever got seriously hurt, I'll never know- the crashes were phenomenol! And it would of been even worse if our parents saw what we did with their trucks. We eventually started doing it on dry dirt but after one particularly bad crash, the thrill was gone for all of us and we just "grew" up a little bit and stopped doing this. Another twist on this was to go up to the ski resort parking lot in the middle of the night but instead of a car hood, we would just wear a set of rubber rain gear and hang on to the end of the rope. This was a lot of fun until one the resorts snow plow operators flagged us down and asked if we had any idea how many broken beer bottles were out in that parking lot. We "grew" up a little bit more that night too. Ah, the joys of youth!
17x7
QUOTE(norcal logger @ Sep 22 2008, 10:31 PM)
Wow,does that bring back memories. When I was in high school we would chain up a 4x4 all the way around, tie a 75' (?) hank of rope behind and hook that to an old car hood and drive on the logging roads. We found that 2 guys were the limit for maneuverabilities sake. Everybody else piled in the back of the truck and laughed 'til it hurt. How nobody ever got seriously hurt, I'll never know- the crashes were phenomenol! And it would of been even worse if our parents saw what we did with their trucks. We eventually started doing it on dry dirt but after one particularly bad crash, the thrill was gone for all of us and we just "grew" up a little bit and stopped doing this. Another twist on this was to go up to the ski resort parking lot in the middle of the night but instead of a car hood, we would just wear a set of rubber rain gear and hang on to the end of the rope. This was a lot of fun until one the resorts snow plow operators flagged us down and asked if we had any idea how many broken beer bottles were out in that parking lot. We "grew" up a little bit more that night too. Ah, the joys of youth!
Isn't it funny that when you look back at all the incredibly crazy and/or stupid stunts that you did as a kid that it is amazing that nobody ever got killed or seriously injured! I know I myself think about some of the stupid, stupid things that I did with friends and what not and I am truly amazed that I didn't get myself killed.
LOL I'm extremely lucky to still be alive after my childhood!
QUOTE(Teresa @ Sep 23 2008, 07:26 PM)
LOL I'm extremely lucky to still be alive after my childhood!
Yeah watching the news here in Dallas/Ft Worth tonight and there was one of the towns around here where two kids pulled a prank at their high school football game this weekend. All they did was one was dressed up as a gorilla and the other was dressed up in a banana costume and the banana chased the gorilla across the football field. They caught the kids and you know what happened next? Some school "administrators" I don't know if it was teachers, the principal or what insisted on pressing charges with the police that were there at the game. The only thing they could charge them with was trespassing I believe. Even the cops tried to talk them out of pressing charges as it was such a harmless thing but they insisted. The kids also are being made to spend a week in an "alternative" school which is some kind of suspension I guess.
Can you believe that? One of the news anchors said something like "Man if those teachers had been around when I was a kid I guess I would have been on death row or something!"
Its like they're punishing kids like that for doing something so innocent in the meantime on the other side of town kids are probably getting into real trouble and they ignore it who knows.
Sorry to get off the subject of the thread.
Wasn't looking for Sasquatch at the time, just camping with some friends.
Three of us were walking along the Clearwater river, smoking cigarettes and talking. We were approaching a clump of woods near the side of the river, and a man jumped out. He snapped a picture of us with what I think was an old 110 camera, and said "I got you, you bastards!" Then he capered off into the woods.
We just stood there, in shock I guess. It was kind of surreal. After a minute or so, we started walking again, talking about the crazy old fool who had just taken our picture. Later on we asked some other folks who were camping in the area if they had seen anyone who matched this man's description, none of them had. We were there for 4 more days and saw no more of this individual.
At the time, it put me on guard. But as I think back on it, I find it quite amusing.
Three of us were walking along the Clearwater river, smoking cigarettes and talking. We were approaching a clump of woods near the side of the river, and a man jumped out. He snapped a picture of us with what I think was an old 110 camera, and said "I got you, you bastards!" Then he capered off into the woods.
We just stood there, in shock I guess. It was kind of surreal. After a minute or so, we started walking again, talking about the crazy old fool who had just taken our picture. Later on we asked some other folks who were camping in the area if they had seen anyone who matched this man's description, none of them had. We were there for 4 more days and saw no more of this individual.
At the time, it put me on guard. But as I think back on it, I find it quite amusing.
Here's my wierd sighting - although I was not looking for our furry friend at the time just out hiking and prospecting.
I was going up a wash with my gold bug metal detector( in Arizona there's not much water and most of the creek beds are dry and only cary water during our monsoons they are called washes.) anyhow I was about 2-3 miles up this wash and there on the ground were about 30 barbie dolls without heads all in a pile. No car/jeep/atv tracks or footprints and it was softish sand and boulders.
Mentioned this to some of my co-workers and they said probably drug smugglers. It was so wierd that I went back up there the next saturday with my camera to get some photos and they were all gone!
I was going up a wash with my gold bug metal detector( in Arizona there's not much water and most of the creek beds are dry and only cary water during our monsoons they are called washes.) anyhow I was about 2-3 miles up this wash and there on the ground were about 30 barbie dolls without heads all in a pile. No car/jeep/atv tracks or footprints and it was softish sand and boulders.
Mentioned this to some of my co-workers and they said probably drug smugglers. It was so wierd that I went back up there the next saturday with my camera to get some photos and they were all gone!
QUOTE(pavo @ Oct 9 2008, 05:18 AM)
Here's my wierd sighting - although I was not looking for our furry friend at the time just out hiking and prospecting.
I was going up a wash with my gold bug metal detector( in Arizona there's not much water and most of the creek beds are dry and only cary water during our monsoons they are called washes.) anyhow I was about 2-3 miles up this wash and there on the ground were about 30 barbie dolls without heads all in a pile. No car/jeep/atv tracks or footprints and it was softish sand and boulders.
Mentioned this to some of my co-workers and they said probably drug smugglers. It was so wierd that I went back up there the next saturday with my camera to get some photos and they were all gone!
I was going up a wash with my gold bug metal detector( in Arizona there's not much water and most of the creek beds are dry and only cary water during our monsoons they are called washes.) anyhow I was about 2-3 miles up this wash and there on the ground were about 30 barbie dolls without heads all in a pile. No car/jeep/atv tracks or footprints and it was softish sand and boulders.
Mentioned this to some of my co-workers and they said probably drug smugglers. It was so wierd that I went back up there the next saturday with my camera to get some photos and they were all gone!
I run across this same situation all the time. It seems whenever I go to my daughter's room my sons have decapattated all of her Barbie Dolls. I had no idea the boys were getting around to so many places.
So look out world the JRP Boys are on the loose and they are coming to kill your Barbie Dolls.
QUOTE(CrimsonGoblin @ Dec 24 2006, 04:56 PM)
Creepiest thing I've found when I've been out and thought I was walking through forest no man had ever walked through, was a womans panties. I expected to find a shallow grave close by.
Once seen a strange guy performing a ritual to "Krull" down at a river.
Once seen a strange guy performing a ritual to "Krull" down at a river.
At the time i was just hiking, did not know about BF..... I was treking up the front of our tallest mountain here on an abandoned old road that was no longer accessible by automobile. About half way up i found a womans long skirt that had not been there very long, was not faded or covered by leaves. No one would have walked that far up in there, four wheelers can get there, but why would a woman in a long skirt be on one of those. I have often wondered how it got there, Sheriffs dept. was not concerned.
Does anyone think that some of the weird things you find are put there deliberately to creep out others?
A lot of stuff seems dumped by people who don't care, but a few of these sound like someone's thought, "what can I leave in the middle of nowhere which will seriously freak out whoever comes across it?".
A lot of stuff seems dumped by people who don't care, but a few of these sound like someone's thought, "what can I leave in the middle of nowhere which will seriously freak out whoever comes across it?".
just wrote a very funny story about this weird old nude guy I bumped into whilst bushwalking once....really really funny.......but...when I re-read it once I posted it I figured you Yanks may find it offensive....its a very very funny story.....but I do not want to offend anyone so I deleted it......its a great story I tell at parties, when people are half shot.......you want funny.....well this is funny......PM and I'll tell you it....cheers..
QUOTE(ludo @ Oct 10 2008, 02:53 AM)
Does anyone think that some of the weird things you find are put there deliberately to creep out others?
A lot of stuff seems dumped by people who don't care, but a few of these sound like someone's thought, "what can I leave in the middle of nowhere which will seriously freak out whoever comes across it?".
A lot of stuff seems dumped by people who don't care, but a few of these sound like someone's thought, "what can I leave in the middle of nowhere which will seriously freak out whoever comes across it?".
Hey i never thought about that...... I had found a football jersey on that same mountain side about 1 year earlier on a lower bench of the mountain, but attributed it to deer hunters because of a nearby stand. Finding that skirt puzzled me...
Once I was hiking on a wooded trail in a city park and came upon a piece of paper attached to a branch with some writing and symbols on it. I don't remember exactly what it said, but it was some sort of devil worship kind of a thing. Really creeped me out... It was obviously deliberately put there for others to see.
devil worship... now that would be freakier than seeing a bigfoot wearing that long skirt and football jersey!
JRP.. LMAO!
JRP.. LMAO!
QUOTE(Teresa @ Oct 11 2008, 12:02 PM)
that would be freakier than seeing a bigfoot wearing that long skirt and football jersey!
It would depend on the jersey....
QUOTE(georgerm @ Sep 17 2008, 09:07 PM)
Some people have reported seeing 3 or 4 stacked rocks that may be attributed to BF. Here is another formation that might be BF related. Along the Oregon coast there is a short trail through a level area with tall shore pine and firs that is open to see around. This area is about 2 miles from 3 or 4 BF sightings. One comes to this strange flat area that has branches stacked and woven to about 14" high. Let's call it a short fence, that is about 70' long and it ungulates around bushes and forms like a small animal corral but is not completely enclosed. It almost seems like a BF nursery and of course has some spookiness to it.
There is one home about 800 yards away, and I suppose a kid could have done this. It seems like it would take too long for kids to make. I will post a picture soon.
Has anyone seen something like this before?
There is one home about 800 yards away, and I suppose a kid could have done this. It seems like it would take too long for kids to make. I will post a picture soon.
Has anyone seen something like this before?
George,
Whatever makes you say it might be BF related??? What indicates BF's involvement???
QUOTE(MetalMtnMan @ Oct 11 2008, 08:10 AM)
Hey i never thought about that...... I had found a football jersey on that same mountain side about 1 year earlier on a lower bench of the mountain, but attributed it to deer hunters because of a nearby stand. Finding that skirt puzzled me...
Thanks. MetalMtnMan. I can't speak for people in the US, but I know that here in England there's always been a thriving tradition of kids who ring doorbells and run away, or those who phone, then hang up on people in the phone book with weird/humorous names. The interesting thing is that the joke is a delayed one, in which the joker can only imagine the thoughts of the 'victim'. A bit like going into the woods and leaving things that would scare others.
What it boils down to is my belief that people are weirder than nature.
Spotted this two weeks ago.
It's pretty creepy, however, we did manage to get a video.
edited to try to fix video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wBDDkopgg
It's pretty creepy, however, we did manage to get a video.
edited to try to fix video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wBDDkopgg
QUOTE(Teresa @ Oct 11 2008, 10:02 AM)
devil worship... now that would be freakier than seeing a bigfoot wearing that long skirt and football jersey!
JRP.. LMAO!
JRP.. LMAO!
Native to Connecticut, google Dudleyville...... most haunted place I've ever heard, complete with devil worship
Yikes, you are not kidding!
http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/dudleytown.shtml
http://www.psychosylum.net/dudleyville.php
That tree... well, uh, hmmm.... that is quite interesting, wow
http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/dudleytown.shtml
http://www.psychosylum.net/dudleyville.php
That tree... well, uh, hmmm.... that is quite interesting, wow
QUOTE(Saaz @ Oct 12 2008, 05:49 PM)
Yikes, you are not kidding!
http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/dudleytown.shtml
http://www.psychosylum.net/dudleyville.php
That tree... well, uh, hmmm.... that is quite interesting, wow
http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/dudleytown.shtml
http://www.psychosylum.net/dudleyville.php
That tree... well, uh, hmmm.... that is quite interesting, wow
Friend of mine hiked that, told me the place is a dead zone as far as birds and other noises, all the time. It's illegal to go there now due to a land dispute I think.
We were camping 3 miles down in the canyon on McCarthy's bar, Quincy California. A rain-cloud unloaded on us for about 10 minutes, tuning the hillside to mud. HUGE boulders came crashing down all around camp. One of the Boulders (about 500 pounds) lodged high in the crotch of a big tree. I know when hikers walk by to this day, they look up and wonder "how the hell" did that big rock get way up there? Maybe Bigfoot threw it...LOL
this is my favourite topic, every time i visit this forum and realise there have been no new posts in this topic i'm disapointed lol... alas, i have no stories of my own to post
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