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Post by outdoorsfl on Sept 8, 2024 15:55:27 GMT -5
Buddy and I were scouting yesterday morning. On return trip, we had just hit the road en route to our vehicle when we saw a SUV. It had all kinds of communication and other equipment and, once it pulled up, we saw the Seal of the State of FL on the driver’s side door panel. We thought: FWC or another agency. Turns out the two gentlemen were cryptozoologists, or Bigfoot hunters. They spent the next 10 minutes trying to convince us of the “facts”, which included a video of a trail camera being shaken by not someone trying to steal it, but Bigfoot. Ranks pretty high on the strange folks list.
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Post by 4ward on Sept 8, 2024 17:24:07 GMT -5
Was it a short fat guy in a Ram?
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Post by walkerdog on Sept 8, 2024 17:38:05 GMT -5
^ that was a good one! 🤣
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 8, 2024 18:03:59 GMT -5
There's one that I ran into in Grove Park. Attachments:
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Post by bullfrog on Sept 8, 2024 18:08:42 GMT -5
Buddy and I were scouting yesterday morning. On return trip, we had just hit the road en route to our vehicle when we saw a SUV. It had all kinds of communication and other equipment and, once it pulled up, we saw the Seal of the State of FL on the driver’s side door panel. We thought: FWC or another agency. Turns out the two gentlemen were cryptozoologists, or Bigfoot hunters. They spent the next 10 minutes trying to convince us of the “facts”, which included a video of a trail camera being shaken by not someone trying to steal it, but Bigfoot. Ranks pretty high on the strange folks list. So was it really the seal of the state?
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Post by swampdog on Sept 8, 2024 20:50:55 GMT -5
Started out of the WMA for home. On the woods road I saw a bright orange/pink something down the road. I put my binoculars on it and saw it was a person walking toward me. I laid my Sig on the console and kept driving. As I got closer, a really pretty young lady in short cutoffs and a bright orange/pink halter was holding up her hand for me to stop. I picked up the Sig and looked hard right, down a woods road that intersects the road I was driving on, in case I was gonna be carjacked. The young lady had her phone on telling someone (boyfriend) that a man was stopping. Her story was her and her boyfriend were out trail riding in their just bought Chevy Colorado and had gotten badly stuck in a giant mud hole. He was at the truck and she was trying to get someone to help them. She’d walked all the way to a busy highway and no one would stop for her. She got in the truck with me and we rode through a lot of rough mud holes to where the stuck truck was. After jerking the young lad’s truck out of the hole, I explained they needed to go back the way they’d come because the road got a lot worse the further in they went. I followed them back out and they stopped on the road and thanked me again for the help. What was strange was a pretty young half-dressed girl trusted a total stranger to help her.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 9, 2024 7:46:36 GMT -5
We were truck scouting LBL one year and there were four(guys) in the truck. A young woman flags us down, you could see the panic in her face. She had wandered off of the hiking trail and gotten lost as dark approached. We gave her a ride back to the trail head and as she got out of the truck I warned her that getting in a truck with 4 strangers wasn't all that smart. She smiled, thanked us and patted her fanny pack. Maybe we were the ones not so smart.
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Post by olmucky on Sept 9, 2024 10:12:09 GMT -5
There's one that I ran into in Grove Park. I’ve been known to strip at the truck. I’m a tick and poison ivy magnet.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 9, 2024 11:23:03 GMT -5
Oh no, he told me he was hiking and getting some sun. I said "I can see that, but you're gonna have to do it somewhere else, we pay to hunt and have access here". He had been hiking the roads in there with nothing on but a headnet and some kind of leather contraption to hold his junk up. I told him some of the people hunting here with their family may not be so nice if they had run into you like this.
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Post by meateater on Sept 9, 2024 11:34:14 GMT -5
Oh no, he told me he was hiking and getting some sun. I said "I can see that, but you're gonna have to do it somewhere else, we pay to hunt and have access here". He had been hiking the roads in there with nothing on but a headnet and some kind of leather contraption to hold his junk up. I told him some of the people hunting here with their family may not be so nice if they had run into you like this. sorry, i will find a new place to get my exercise.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 9, 2024 11:44:00 GMT -5
It's alright if you pay your thousand dollars for a recreational use permit. I'm told there's still some available. 😁 I should add, it's Alachua County so everything is good. Lol Maybe this won't end up in politics
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Post by bullfrog on Sept 9, 2024 12:32:54 GMT -5
Oh I got the mother of weird-person-in-the-woods stories I’ll share later.
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Post by nuthinfancy on Sept 9, 2024 14:47:55 GMT -5
I have gotten several trail camera pictures of nudists on public land. Fortunately never had an encounter with one in person
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Post by altuck on Sept 9, 2024 15:09:40 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's there was a music festival on the Ochlocknee River at Stoutamire's landing. Buddy and I were floating down the river, pitching crickets and hearing banjo music. Came around a bend and there was probably a hundred hippies buck naked swimming in the river All kinds, sizes and shapes.
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Post by tampaspicer on Sept 9, 2024 15:38:36 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's there was a music festival on the Ochlocknee River at Stoutamire's landing. Buddy and I were floating down the river, pitching crickets and hearing banjo music. Came around a bend and there was probably a hundred hippies buck naked swimming in the river All kinds, sizes and shapes. Hell yeah my kinda party.
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