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Title: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: guesswho on February 20, 2019, 07:32:29 PM
I got bored this afternoon (imagine that) and was going through some old pictures.  I had forgot about this incident.  While Bobcat'n around a few years ago I walked up on this.  I thought it was dead.  I was looking for a long stick so I could poke it.  I couldn't find a long stick, so I picked up a short one and tossed it on top of the critter.  After doing so I kinda wished I hadn't done that.   Their 40 time is much more impressive than I had anticipated :emoticon-cartoon-012: 
(https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/olesixbeards/DSC01724.jpg)
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Deputy 14 on February 20, 2019, 07:36:14 PM
That's hilarious  :you_rock:
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Happy on February 20, 2019, 07:42:58 PM
Glad your crocs held up to the high RPM's. Personally I never try to poke any bear.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: chatterbox on February 20, 2019, 07:48:47 PM
Quote from: Happy on February 20, 2019, 07:42:58 PM
Glad your crocs held up to the high RPM's. Personally I never try to poke any bear.
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: SteelerFan on February 20, 2019, 07:56:08 PM
That... is FUNNY!
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: MISSISSIPPI Double beard on February 20, 2019, 08:24:22 PM
or a hornets nest.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: paboxcall on February 20, 2019, 08:50:33 PM
Quote from: Happy on February 20, 2019, 07:42:58 PM
Glad your crocs held up to the high RPM's. Personally I never try to poke any bear.

:icon_thumright: :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Tail Feathers on February 20, 2019, 08:50:57 PM
Quote from: Happy on February 20, 2019, 07:42:58 PM
Glad your crocs held up to the high RPM's. Personally I never try to poke any bear.
:z-winnersmiley: He is a croc wearing Ninja ain't he?   :whip2: :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Sir-diealot on February 20, 2019, 11:02:18 PM
Year ago up in the Adirondack Mountains they used to get bears in at the local dump and it was a popular place to go for tourists in the evening. Another guy and myself got within petting distance of one, he reached down and pet it and no problem, I decided to do the same and got growled at. I thought better of the idea and backed off.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Harty on February 21, 2019, 08:52:08 AM
Glad you threw a stick first versus walk-in on over and start skin 'in  im out.

Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: crow on February 21, 2019, 08:54:33 AM
When you poked him did you get an answer to the age old question, Does a bear poop in the woods?
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: tomstopper on February 21, 2019, 10:03:47 AM
When scouting one year in Pennsylvania when I was about 15 years old, I walked down a wide trail through a bunch of berry bushes. As I was walking down the trail I heard something up ahead of me about 50 yards and all the sudden seen an adult black bear standing on his hind legs looking over top of the berry bushes. I dropped my tree stand right there and ran down to my uncle's house and he had a huge laugh how frightened I was.

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Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: RussM311 on February 21, 2019, 02:40:50 PM
Wait until you walk up to a sleeping alligator along the creek you are hunting....  :-)))
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: guesswho on February 21, 2019, 02:46:01 PM
Quote from: RussM311 on February 21, 2019, 02:40:50 PM
Wait until you walk up to a sleeping alligator along the creek you are hunting....  :-)))
Been there and done that too!   Grew up in Central Florida.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Gobble! on February 21, 2019, 02:55:00 PM
Quote from: guesswho on February 21, 2019, 02:46:01 PM
Quote from: RussM311 on February 21, 2019, 02:40:50 PM
Wait until you walk up to a sleeping alligator along the creek you are hunting....  :-)))
Been there and done that too!   Grew up in Central Florida.

Think I'd rather walk up on the bear and slap his  before I'd have to walk anywhere near a gator.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Takeaim1st on February 22, 2019, 08:49:39 PM
 Whom ever coined the phrase, " Let sleeping Dogs lie", probably had never poked a sleeping Bear, else wise He may have penned the phrase differently. €:-)  Hmm good chance They might not have ever penned anything at all. LOL
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Yoder409 on February 22, 2019, 09:43:12 PM
So, apparently............since you lived to post this..........his initial 40 was the OTHER direction.

I wouldn't reckon they like those kinds of surprises.............
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: THattaway on February 23, 2019, 08:32:03 AM
Pity you were not videoing this.
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: RutnNStrutn on February 23, 2019, 01:36:27 PM
Could have been worse. Could've taken a scope to the eye!!! ;) ;D
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: GobbleNut on February 23, 2019, 02:04:31 PM
Quote from: crow on February 21, 2019, 08:54:33 AM
When you poked him did you get an answer to the age old question, Does a bear poop in the woods?

Don't know if a bear does, but I can pretty much guarantee that if it had been me, we would most certainly know that a person does!  ;D
Title: Re: Don't Poke A Sleeping!
Post by: Ctrize on February 26, 2019, 11:51:38 PM
That is crazy  :emoticon-cartoon-012: