What is your "fear factor"?

I should add lions, and the big cats. Even in cages, at paws length, they are both terrifying and incredibly powerful and beautiful.
The S.F. zoo has feeding cages, and, you can get about 5 feet from the cats. Well fed, yet they let you know they want to go back out, when done eating. A 600 pound male lion let go with a full roar, telling his keeper it was time for him to go back outside. Scared everybody to death. Children started crying, and, one young boy peed his pants right next to us.
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Hehe A good friend's aunt used to work the the Jackson zoo and our crew would get special behind the scenes visits. She played a joke on us once when a new tiger (from the wild) came in. We all went into this little hallway and right as my friend (in front of me) turned the corner, the cat lurched at him and SLAMMED into the window just a few feet away. I've never seen another human turn that shade of white. We had to carry him out. She said it takes them a few weeks to get aquainted with things in the zoo... I saw his face and heard the noise... but never made it around that corner.
 
At Marineworld, San Mateo, we went to the show. It started with sitting 1 foot away from the 'fence' 10 feet high, and, as we sat there, 5 huge tigers, and two AFrican Lions ran at us, and peeled off. After that, we learned from the trainers that the tigers would kick the stuffings out of the 600 pound lions, on a regular basis, after the lions started it. I really can't put in words the effect on your system when 7 600-700 pound killers, tigers and lions, look at you at one foot like dinner...

Only thing worse was the following act. 10 elephants, HUGE, running at you, and, peeling off, in near total silence, at a foot, running at you about 20 miles an hour, then they peel off. Keep in mind, any and all of those animals could either jump out, or, go through the fence, and wall like it was paper mache...
 
Wolfs howling or whatever you call it right at dusk when your walking back from deer hunting unloaded.
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3rd day hunting in Wisconsin, finally bagged my "earn a buck" doe with a bow, darkness descended and I'm crawling out of the woods, and I mean literally crawling because the hill is on about a 50 degree incline and snow covered as well, and I hear the howling start.

Lonnnnnnnng, multiple howls, from every single direction around me.

So I howled right along with them. :D
 
I heard a story bout a Park Ranger who shot a Large Male Grizzly Bear. After getting a ration for killing an endangered species he said. "When I saw the Bear charging me like a freight train, There was no doubt in my mind whom was the endangered species".:)
 
Brent's got some awesome dogs!

My fear factor- domestic sheep.

You should hear them things in the dark of night in the middle of the San Juan wilderness in Colorado; riding trails alone where only your horse can see where to go.

Sheep sound wierd at night, and the sound carries for miles.

My biggest fear factor is Little Red Ridin Hood- er no I mean the bigbad wolf.


Gene was run off a mountain by black hornets once. There he was with his foot caught, hanging upside down off a cliff. I let him rescue himself. :D

I had to hold the horses, yah know. :D
 
I woke up one night alone in the Colorado Rockies with 400 demons surrounding me. :eek: Dog was snoring so I went back to sleep.

* They were coyotes- I learned later.*

"The Feeling" freaks me out more than anything. You guys know what I mean. You are alone in the woods, it is dark and nice and quiet. Then you get "The Feeling". ..., Bigfoot, .......Ever been there?
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Only when being around bigfoot. :D

...or in Washington D.C. on the wrong street- the one with all the murders.

Last summer I camped with the Nez Perce and bigfoot was in 2- 3 of our camps. He must be a friend of the Nez Perce? He protected us from the wolves. :D
 
Thinking that Bigfoot is watching me....:D
Just kidding on that one, but I do not care about stepping close to snakes in the woods, especially if they are poisonous and I am miles and miles from medical help.

Guess the most fearful thing is rifle bullets hitting in the close area around thy body and having to dive for cover. Or a 12 GA. shotgun blast at close range just inches above the head. Those things right there will instill fear immediately. Disclaimer: Don't try it at home though.
 
Bears usually make false charges. Sows with cubs can be an exception. That being said, just stand your ground. They usually stop within 15-20 feet of you and then run off after their display.
 
Okay, I'll admit it, last week I got scared by a coyote. And I'm a guy who snickers when he reads scary coyote stories on forums like this.

But I was on vacation in Arizona, and they've got a rabies problem. I was driving back from town when I saw the coyote on the side of the road, he was only four or five feet away from my car and he didn't run when I stopped. That was a big red flag.

He ended up crossing the road and approaching me after I parked. Like I said, I was on vacation, and without the options I'd of had at home. I yelled, he tried to flank me, but I got inside.

He was good-sized, and I'll admit that he got my blood pumping.
 
Bannana spiders in the early morning fog on an airboat with it in the middle of the web right in front of you at 20 mph. Walking 100 yards off a tram and looking down in 2 feet of water in the facahacthe strand and seeing around 20 moccasins around where you are standing and the light is not yet up enought to see well. That will kill a morning hunt.
 
That will kill a morning hunt.
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No joke. I was TRYING to be stealthy and sneak in to a swamp where I had seen a nice buck earlier in the season. Got my bow in one hand, and a little light in my other hand, looking down at the ground to try and avoid breaking any branches in the dark.....and that's when I walked through the worlds biggest spider web.....well at least it seemed like it at the time. ;) Don't know what kind of spider it was, but when I felt legs moving across my cheek I dang near had a stroke and died right where I stood.

Being sneaky and stealthy went straight out the window at that point. I dropped the light when I smacked myself in the face with it :rolleyes:, dropped my bow, and tripped backwards over a log that I had just stepped over 2 seconds earlier. Didn't fall, mind you, but made enough noise to wake up every deer in ........oh I don't know, the whole state of Virginia. I wore the gold crown of killing a morning hunt that day.
 
oh crap

This scared the heck out of my, siting in a climbing deer stand at least 20 foot up a tree and moving my feet and the bottom part goes down the tree:p sat there a wile thinking what the heck am i going to do:confused: note to the young folks no cell phones:o well need less to say i got down that tree like a bear :D the other thing that gets me are quail the danm things will get up rite under you feet :eek:
 
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