30-6 Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Any big cats been seen around there ? Perhaps one was watching YOU !!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 (edited) This is creepy experience I had out shooting a flooded stubble field about 10 years or so ago in Co Wexford in Ireland ! . Myself & a mate Larry Fortune decided to give the flash in this field a go that night as ducks had been flighting into it in some numbers the evening before . So we set off before dark all kitted out as the weather had turned foul with gale force winds & driving rain that started get in my jacket from all angles & as we waited & waited nothing happened until just as it started to come on dark all of a sudden the ducks started coming but it was now black dark all we could see were shapes in the darkness almost as they were upon us & to make it worse the gale force wind had almost reached storm force ! . We fired shot after shot but we just could not connect as it was so so hard to stand still to get a shot in that storm which seem to get worse ! so we decided to give up & head home . A couple of evenings later the weather had calmed down a great deal so I decided to try that flash again on my own so off I went all kitted out again across the stubble & positioned myself by a fence with some odd hawthorns dotted here & there . The wind had started to die down until it became flat calm & the moon was starting to rise behind me & I felt a bit doubtful that any ducks would come in as it was now so calm & the moon had now risen enough to light up the whole landscape which looked so spooky as a low mist had covered the stubble & it had all gone so very calm & quite you could almost here a pin drop ! , so different to what it was earlier . Oh ! well I thought that's the way it goes you win some you loose some ! so I stood there for a minute or so just to admire the landscape in the moon light & said to my self ok time to go . Then as I turned to face the moon I saw some thing coming straight at my face ! it blotted out the moon & it all went suddenly dark ! as it was almost at my face ! I felt my heart stop & then race again as I dived out of the way so it would miss me !! . Well it turned out it was a bloody OWL ! only inches from landing on my hat !! & to this day I don't know who got the bigger fright ! . Edited August 27, 2012 by Pole Star Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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