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Went on a lot of snipe hunts. always turned out the same, spent the whole night standing there holding a burlap bag.
I finally figured out snipe were allergic to me, when I WAS ABOUT 40.
I sure did want to catch a snipe.
My grandson says he will take me on a snipe hunt for my birthday. Wonder if my luck has changed and I'll get one this time.
About seven years ago my wife and I were driving on a dirt road into our camp. I spotted, what I thought was a coyote, about two hundred yards away. I told my wife to hang on so that we could get a better look. We ended up chasing mountain lion down the dirt road and we got within twenty yards of it before it sprang off the road. We could clearly see the long, curved, tail and the cat's gait.
We live in NEPA and according to the experts; this lion does not exist. When we got home I immediately called our Game Commission to report our sighting. They basically treated me as if I had been drinking. So I asked them if I could shoot the animal if we ever saw it again. They immediately replied that it was endangered and I would suffer steep fines or jail time. I asked them how it could be endangered if it did not exist? Anyway; I promised that I would not shoot the animal and, as it turned out, we never did see it again. I was happy when one turned up dead, hit by a motorist, in Connecticut a couple years ago - it kind of enforced our sighting.
One other rare sight, I saw while fishing, was 40 pound + snapping turtles mating. They looked like a sea monster. From a distance it looked like a large moving mass on the top of the water. I rowed over to it to take a better look and found two turtles mating. They were rolling over and over while locked together. I could easily think that anybody, from a distance, would think they saw a sea monster's head.
I also had a muskrat attack me while duck hunting - bad move for the muskrat. I never heard of rabies in muskrats. But, then, I never heard of rabies in beavers until just the last few years.
When visiting the South Rim of the Grand Canyon about 10 years ago, came across a NPS employee with his camera aimed on an outcrop 20 ft below. There we saw a bout 15 California Condors which even by today's population numbers would have represented about 5% of all the world's California Condors in the wild.
(my photos)
I also once saw the burning eyes of a hodag thru a tequila induced haze at the edge of our campfire light in the woods of the Michigan UP which would have had to have traveled 50 or 60 miles from the woods near Rhinelander to get to our campsite.
When visiting the South Rim of the Grand Canyon about 10 years ago, came across a NPS employee with his camera aimed on an outcrop 20 ft below. There we saw a bout 15 California Condors which even by today's population numbers would have represented about 5% of all the world's California Condors in the wild.
(my photos)
Awesome photos. That's quite a sighting you had. Thanks for posting.
Alligator snapping turtle crossing a road. It was so large I thought it was a dog until I got a better look. It made it across the road and into the pond on the other side of the road.
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go for it 
