idgaf Report post Posted October 18 You may not believe this. Helping my nephew on his junior hunt on Friday he takes a couple of shots at a giant coues. We split up and look for evidence of a hit. After five hours of looking, nothing. I decide to take a drainage back to the trucks. At dark, I was thinking of putting my headlamp on, when I step on a rattlesnake. Thinking fast or slow, idk, i dive off the snake into rocks 3 or 4 feet down and 6 feet away. Hitting my right side in those rocks and knocking my sidearm another 6 feet in front of me. I put it back in the holster, go a few yards father. Grab my headlamp and start looking for snakebites. Quick once over and I'm okay. Now fully dark and my headlamp properly placed on my head. I see a set of yellow eyes looking at me maybe 15' higher 40 or 50 yards down the drainage. I get closer, only watching the eyes the whole time with them moving out of sight a couple of times only to go back to back to it's perch. With me yelling at it the whole time I am now 20 yards away. My brother and nephew get back to the truck and give me a call. I tell them what I am looking at and my brothers yells SHOOT! Ironically, the pistol i brought was only for snakes. The heritage revolver with a 22 mag cylinder. With my brother on the phone, I pull the trigger back and click, again, click and again. Finally when I stopped aiming i get a round to go off. Peppering yellow eyes with rock shrapnel. It finally turns and I don't see yellow eyes anymore Now it gets dangerous. I go further and come to a dried out waterfall, 12 or 15 feet high with Cliffs on both sides. Instead of going back through snakes and demon eyes, i decide to scale down. Takes me awhile and couple of different descents only falling when I am 6 inches from the bottom. I get to the trucks, drop my pants and have my brother and nephew check for snake bites. I had my nephew google what north american animals have yellow eyes. There are two. Mt lions and raccoons. This wasn't a racoon. The next morning I find this on my boot. Oh and couple of days later, my nephew gets his first buck! 5 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PRDATR Report post Posted October 18 What is on the boot? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Non-Typical Solutions Report post Posted October 18 Nope to snake and congrats on a great first buck!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idgaf Report post Posted October 18 6 minutes ago, PRDATR said: What is on the boot? My daughter. My snake expert said it was bite. Honestly, idk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hunterjohnny Report post Posted October 18 I would say with all you went though you can call it whatever you want! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CatfishKev Report post Posted October 18 I assume she means the two little slivers being a snake bite if you look real close and zoom in it looks like at the bottom of the one to the right is a little bit of dried liquid so I could see that being a bit of dried venom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
idgaf Report post Posted October 18 59 minutes ago, CatfishKev said: I assume she means the two little slivers being a snake bite if you look real close and zoom in it looks like at the bottom of the one to the right is a little bit of dried liquid so I could see that being a bit of dried venom That's what she said. And pointed what appeared to be dried liquid stains. I felt the snake under my heel, but did not feel anything else. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CatfishKev Report post Posted October 18 Thank God for leather 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DUG Report post Posted October 19 You and your crazy mountain lion stories........😉 And congrats to your nephew on his deer! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
