Cattle on WMA's

22donk

Has anyone ever had a bad experience with cattle on any WMAs? I get stared down a lot by massive bulls and have had cattle that were spooked charge past me a bit closer than what I consider comfortable. I'd be a liar if I said I have never been intimidated by such situations. Anyone have any stories to share?

james 14

Hunted KCOLA for a few years and was around them quite a bit with no problems...but that was just one population. The biggest problem they posed was when they spooked they'd cause a commotion when they ran off. It was always fun to watch their reaction when they walked up on a turkey decoy. Not once did I ever feel the slightest bit of danger.

bswiv

45 years ago we hunted the Still Hunt Unit of the Nassaw WMA along the St. Mary's River. Did so for 15 years. For at least the first 10 years there were "woods cows" out there. No fences anyplace and if I remember correctly just one small ( 1/4 acre ) corral centrally located.

We'd occasionally see the owners out doing a roundup on horses.......

Cows were of varying temperaments though generally skittish. Never had one bother us except when we wandered in among a group of them in the dark. And even then it was a case of us and them both being spooked.

Just keep a eye on them and as suggested do not spook them as the deer do notice.

Panhandler80

****... We have to be worried about cows too now?

Alligators
Beavers
Bears
Bobcats
Bumble bees
Briers
Black widow
Brown recluse
Cows
Cotton mouth
Coyotes
Cougars
Copperhead
Crocodile
Dogs
Frogs
Fox
Felines
Gators
Horses
Hornets
Insects
Iguana
Jack ****
Limes disease
Nutria
Opossum
Poison ivy
Panther
Quick sand
Rats
Rabbits
Roaches
Rattlesnake
Sink holes
Skunks
Snakes
Salamander
Silk worm
Snapping turtle
Tortoise

And now COWS?!! .Its no longer worth it, my






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Panhandler80

And then the real concern...

*** holes
*****ers
Cocks
Criminals
****
Egg heads
Fools
Googans
Hippies
Idiots
Jerks
Killers
Low lifes
Morons
Nincompoops
People

Larry Mac

JohnnyBandit wrote: »

Ignore the cattle.... They will bust you and let the deer know you are there.... But dangerous... Nope...

I hunt on private land that is mostly pasture with a few hammocks. I have had some experiences with cattle-- mostly nuisance and one time scary.
Usually they are a nuisance as they will congregate around decoys at times. While I am usually in some kind of blind, if they spot you they won't take their eye off you. So now you have 4-5 or more head of cattle looking at you and I wonder how turkeys and deer respond to that. Btw turkeys and deer have a symbiotic relationship -- when together turkeys will skedaddle when they see deer spooked by your scent-- and vice versa when turkeys pick out your slightest movement. So I wonder if cattle looking at a perceived threat have turkeys even more wary if that's possible-- but I know I have yet to have a gobbler walk up on cattle gawking at my decoys. So I now carry a slingshot with steel balls to try to encourage cattle to move on.
The dangerous situation happened once when an Angus bull went after me while sitting on my turkey chair in a blind with a tree to my back.
I mean he came after me to the point I was falling back against the tree and jabbed him very hard in the snout with a loaded 12 gauge before he left.
In retrospect , the bull had seen me many times walking back and forth in full camo , but the camo face mask was the one thing different that I think spooked him. Things like that seem to happen to me as I have had 200# hogs and 6 pt deer literally run over me while in the turkey blind. ( see when animals attack)😄

22donk

Ha ha ha! Interesting. I figured with everyone hunting around cattle there would be some kind of story floating around somewhere. Now I know that cattle are not dangerous nor do they intend on harming anyone, but there are always accidents and exceptions. I was with a few guys once when cattle spooked and came rushing towards us we simply stepped out of the way except for the guy who was cleaning his boots out sitting on his butt. He just froze while a few dozen head filtered around him within inches. He's lucky thy didn't plow him rigt over.

Nips049

I got charged twice by the same bull at 3 lakes the year before last. Full sprint. In the dark. I didn't know he was in the palmettos and walked up next to him. I jogged it back to the truck after the second charge. I'm more careful now.

ANUMBER1

22donk wrote: »

Has anyone ever had a bad experience with cattle on any WMAs? I get stared down a lot by massive bulls and have had cattle that were spooked charge past me a bit closer than what I consider comfortable. I'd be a liar if I said I have never been intimidated by such situations. Anyone have any stories to share?

Wash that doe in heat off your boots before you get hurt!

pbsnooker

About 20 yrs ago, hunting Cecil Webb archery ( back when it was in February) me and a buddy was walking a trail on the south end and passed a bunch of cattle. One cow took notice and proceeded to fallow us. She slowly started gaining ground. We joked about it but kept a eye on her. Then for no apparent reason she let out a MOOOO and took off at us. Thank god wep were younger cause a couple hundred yards later after bobbing and weaving through palmettos, we jumped the fence line. That friggun cow stopped at the fence and followed us along the fence just mooing away for about an hour. We actually thought about putting an arrow in her just so we could get back, but we didn't. She finally lost interest and left. Been hunting around cattle my whole life and this was the one and only time something strange happened.

Gerrit

That last story had me laughing. I have had them act like they were gonna charge but it's never actually happened. In Texas some cows ruined my hunt though. I was doing some walk and stalk bow hunting for hogs in hill country. I had a planned route connecting multiple hog hangouts and had devised a plan for an approach with good wind for each. As I approached every spot I spooked various herds of cows which always managed to stampede through hog heaven. It was funny but frustrating at the same time. Ended up taking me a full week of hunting every day to bag one but it was my first one so it made the reward that much sweeter.

saltysenior

I've had some close encounters with bulls in the woods and they never got aggressive....however back in the '80s a young bull chased me up a dirt pile and kept me there....he was with his first ''date'' and when she left, he did too..

Gone_Fishing

Cow poop makes good cover scent. Just sayin

cuda141

You beat me to the poop thang I've stepped in it on a few WMA's in the dark ;( I had a whole heard of cows watching me fish a trout stream in France once, a couple big white bulls, big pointy horns and all were gettin way to close for comfort...sure got my attention...intimidating critters!!!

FLDXT

Geezus, they're cows, this is getting about as bad as the blood thirsty Florida Wild Boars waiting for unsuspecting hunters without back up weapons to charge and cut their guts out...they're just freaking cows.

Skunk Ape

DUCKWHACKER

They usually just look at ya and move along. Two years ago during a small game hunt I bumped one on a trail between a thick hammock and a barbed wire fence. Dang thing freaked out and started crashing into the fence where there was little give to the wire. After about the third hit, the cow pulled back and it's eyeball was hanging out. Felt bad for it and did a backtrack to let her calm down.

binellishtr

watch out for them mules.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqI2bjzCME

22donk

FLDXT wrote: »

Geezus, they're cows, this is getting about as bad as the blood thirsty Florida Wild Boars waiting for unsuspecting hunters without back up weapons to charge and cut their guts out...they're just freaking cows.

I don't think anyone is saying they're dangerous. Just saying sometimes weird stuff happens.

binellishtr

come try the "cows" at chalotitka this yr, lil ole lake bottom cows,they're friendly..

Skunk Ape

Cows aint nothing if your hunting in cow country,try walking up on a Great Pyrenees protecting a herd of goats,down right scary.

AllenR

Step in a yeller jacket nest, or stand in a fire ant bed while wearing coveralls...now that's scary

FLDXT

binellishtr wrote: »

come try the "cows" at chalotitka this yr, lil ole lake bottom cows,they're friendly..

*Chalonitka

ANUMBER1

My brother usta walk out the back porch and ole bessie would come a charging at him.. At the last second she'd spin around and back right up to the fence by the ole pine stump..

Mama used ta wonder why, so did I when I wuz younger...

Flredbones

One of the funniest moments I've had in the past five years had to do with this topic. I decided to take my 12 year old brother out hunting and we were walking through a pasture. He went one way i went the other around a little Cyprus head. Well a few steps after we split up i hear him say " i found a cow." i thought to my self well no shoot, we're in a cow pasture of course you'll find a cow. He kept yelling at me so i went over there to see the cow he "found" and there was a calf that had to be only a few days old just sitting in the grass and wasn't moving. So my brother thought "oh cute calf i should take a picture" well he walked up to it to take a picture stuck his phone out and out of no where the calf jumps up and headbutts him full force knocking him to the ground. he gets up and starts running and it chases him and knocks him back on his *** and starts hitting him with this head. This thing couldn't have been any bigger than a **** dog but it showed him he messed with the wrong calf. I've never seen anything funnier in a long time.

binellishtr

FLDXT wrote: »

*Chalonitka

for me it's chalo****ka

FLDXT

binellishtr wrote: »

for me it's chalo****ka

O....K. To each their own I reckon.