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My hunting partner cancelled on me so I decided to try out some new spots alone in Northeast Texas. My luck was bad! I started off my day with a leaking boot in 35 deg weather. At my next stop I had three dogs across the creek growling and barking at me. I figured they would go away. I was wrong! They came barreling down into the creek aggressively towards me. The largest of the three was determined to bite me while the others growled. I went to war with my 5 ft hickory walking stick. After a couple of solid hits I won the battle and they retreated. They climbed back to the top of the creek bank and growled and barked at me for another 30 minutes or so. I found a few items and walked a mile back to my truck only to realize I had lost my phone. I started to give up and just report my phone lost but decided to look for it. I hiked the mile back through the woods down into the creek and somehow managed to find it. I did manage to find a nice size shark vert, fish vert and a couple of artifacts. My Brazos hickory walking stick has saved me more times than I can count from hogs, dogs and waist deep mud. It's a little heavy but worth it. 

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Very nice vert! Never let it be said that fossil huntings is without danger.

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Exciting story and at least you're okay and escaped with a couple of treasures. :)

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Great report and a few nice finds! A good story to tell your grandkids some day!

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Sometimes, our little adventures become bigger adventures than we anticipated!  :trilosurprise:

Thanks for the report, Jarrod!

Near finds. :) 

 

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Had dog issues before myself, once in the Peace river with noise from running water, I look up and 15 ft away is a huge rott lab mix. He was just looking at me, he slowly approaches, I put my scraper rake (big custom made deal) between me and the dog *Me* I don't know you, back up man!

 

He was a 100 plus pounds and he was insistant on smelling me so I finally just let him, turns out he was friendly but some tense moments passed before I ascertained that.

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You win some, you lose some, I guess. At least you won the standoff with the dogs and found a nice vert. I was on a similar exploratory trip the other day and came up with nothing but throwaways. At least the pair of foxes just ran away instead of attacking me.

 

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Having a dog myself, I really like them.

But I'd probably still get very scared by 3 big growling dogs, and I definitely wouldn't have had the guts to beat them with a walking stick! 

What a story you have there :D

 

Still a pretty good haul though, well done. 

 

Max

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yeah; when we walk creeks we are actually in someone's back yard a lot of the time. Dogs just doing their job but the first law of nature applies (self preservation)

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Thanks everyone. I'm an animal lover so I hate hitting a dog but when they're attacking I have no issue lol. 

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Nice report Jarrod. There are several places I hunt where dogs from neighboring homes have been a nuisance, but never a problem. Ther are a few river spots I go to where I worry about gators also. 

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