Startling Things Sportsman Have Seen

▶ While hunting antelope in Montana, I had crawled about 80 yards to get a clear shot at a nice buck. I was within a second of firing, when boom! A fighter jet was doing low-flight drills over the valley, just 100 yards overhead. It was the last I saw of that buck, and almost that pair of underwear. �—Greg Paull ▶ Five miles back in the woods, I came across three guys: one toting a car battery, one a TV, one a satellite dish. Some people really can’t unplug, I guess.� —Eric Rehm ▶ We hadn’t seen a soul in two hours of hiking. He just waved and smiled. —Michael Olson ▶ I was hiking when I suddenly looked up and saw a jaguar crouched on a fallen tree. I froze—it scared the bejesus out of me. Turns out, it was a stuffed replica some evil genius had nailed to the tree.
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A wild surprise while antelope hunting

▶ While hunting antelope in Montana, I had crawled about 80 yards to get a clear shot at a nice buck. I was within a second of firing, when boom! A fighter jet was doing low-flight drills over the valley, just 100 yards overhead. It was the last I saw of that buck, and almost that pair of underwear. �—Greg Paull

▶ Five miles back in the woods, I…

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