Keep your eye out for a cow in the pines!
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Steer could still be roaming the Pines
- Thread starter Teegate
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Well either someone stocked their freezer with some steak or he's still on the loose somewhere. I guess there's plenty of open savannah for him to graze/roam, but I would imagine a cedar swamp or thick pines/briars would be tough for him to navigate-especially if he still has his horns. That would be a hell of a head mount for the wall though.
Reminds me of a funny story. My father grew up not far from the Bordentown correctional facilty (minimum security prison) where they have a prison farm. One day a cow escaped and my dad, who was 11 at the time, went looking for it after they heard about it on the radio. Sure enough, he found it in the woods behind my grandparents' house drinking from the creek. He took the rope he'd brought with him and put it around her neck. It was a Guernsey heifer so it was pretty docile at first. However, as he was trying to lead her back something spooked her and he had the rope wrapped around his arm. He went for quite a wild ride through briars, mud, bushes, etc... before he finally got the rope loose. The State Police eventually caught her somewhere near Chesterfield, needless to say my grandmother was NOT impressed.
Reminds me of a funny story. My father grew up not far from the Bordentown correctional facilty (minimum security prison) where they have a prison farm. One day a cow escaped and my dad, who was 11 at the time, went looking for it after they heard about it on the radio. Sure enough, he found it in the woods behind my grandparents' house drinking from the creek. He took the rope he'd brought with him and put it around her neck. It was a Guernsey heifer so it was pretty docile at first. However, as he was trying to lead her back something spooked her and he had the rope wrapped around his arm. He went for quite a wild ride through briars, mud, bushes, etc... before he finally got the rope loose. The State Police eventually caught her somewhere near Chesterfield, needless to say my grandmother was NOT impressed.
This silly thing has been out and about for awhile, during it's first escape
it spent some time right behind where I work in West Berlin.That I believe was it's initial escapade with local law enforcement. Now I really do not know if it's alive or not, or whether that's good or not, but it really has made the rounds.I've heard talk locally of it being back here in Waterford but...
We've got some pretty good hunters out this way. Now , I don't hunt but
here would be my moral dilemna, If I am out all day breaking my kiester for 70+/- pounds of venison and I can land a 1/2 ton of serious prime deadcow?
Well if I was the one that landed it I don't think I'd be telling.
Perhaps one day this mysterious beast will be discussed under legends & folklore.
it spent some time right behind where I work in West Berlin.That I believe was it's initial escapade with local law enforcement. Now I really do not know if it's alive or not, or whether that's good or not, but it really has made the rounds.I've heard talk locally of it being back here in Waterford but...
We've got some pretty good hunters out this way. Now , I don't hunt but
here would be my moral dilemna, If I am out all day breaking my kiester for 70+/- pounds of venison and I can land a 1/2 ton of serious prime deadcow?
Well if I was the one that landed it I don't think I'd be telling.
Perhaps one day this mysterious beast will be discussed under legends & folklore.
Guy does have a point, the only way to get an animal that size out of the woods would be to quarter it and carry it out with the help of at least one or two other people. Of course if a portion of prime cut meat was promised to each one I'm sure they could be persuaded to keep their mouths shut.
Hey, have you noticed all the hunters on this forum have been real quite on this thread? Hmmmm.......LOL
Jeff
Jeff
I heard a rumor of it being in a piece of woods right behind Largo's house between Christmas and New Years.
A very unreliable source told me that one his wife's friends came up on it while riding her horse.
If I heard it from her I would believe it but I haven't seen her around to ask her.
That piece of woods was hunted hard by individuals and clubs that week becuse a lot of people were home for the holiday.
If the steer was in there, it might have died of lead poisoning.
A very unreliable source told me that one his wife's friends came up on it while riding her horse.
If I heard it from her I would believe it but I haven't seen her around to ask her.
That piece of woods was hunted hard by individuals and clubs that week becuse a lot of people were home for the holiday.
If the steer was in there, it might have died of lead poisoning.
Gotta say I'm routing for the steer. I mean, if he has escaped all of these attempts at capture he deserves his little piece of PineLands freedom.
This is the first time I've heard anything about this and I live a stone's throw from Rt 73 in West berlin.