Oddest Animal Pointed Ever

I was grouse and woodcock hunting in the UP several years ago when my setter Sammie pointed a bear sow and three cubs.

That was exciting.

Sammie also pointed a fertilizer bag in a clear cut in SE Ohio.

There were several chicken wire cylinders too.

I stumbled on someone’s dope plantation
 
Does it count if it was flushed, not pointed? My last springer Buzz & I were hunting a small cattail draw from its tip out in a picked corn field, toward the road. As we neared the road, Buzz got very birdy, so I got excited & ready for a rooster. Nope. Beaver. Buzz chased it into a culvert. Luckily, I was able to call him off, as who knows what lay lurking in there. Perhaps a whole gang of angry beavers. The weird thing was there was no water around. Hadn't been for years. No dam. Nothing. Oddly, shortly afterward I noticed a few freshly felled trees (by beavers) in a shelterbelt a couple hundred yards from the draw. Never could figure out why the beaver was there or where it might've come from.
 
In the Texas panhandle while quail hunting, I had a shorthair point coyotes in the high grass on a couple of different occasions.
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
Does it count if it was flushed, not pointed? My last springer Buzz & I were hunting a small cattail draw from its tip out in a picked corn field, toward the road. As we neared the road, Buzz got very birdy, so I got excited & ready for a rooster. Nope. Beaver. Buzz chased it into a culvert. Luckily, I was able to call him off, as who knows what lay lurking in there. Perhaps a whole gang of angry beavers. The weird thing was there was no water around. Hadn't been for years. No dam. Nothing. Oddly, shortly afterward I noticed a few freshly felled trees (by beavers) in a shelterbelt a couple hundred yards from the draw. Never could figure out why the beaver was there or where it might've come from.
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Absolutely counts. Probably filed under low IQ beaver.
 
Pocket gopher.

We were in the pasture watching cows during calving season and she was pointing at the ground, she would move a few steps, point again. I looked around at there were a couple pocket gopher mounds by us. She would cock her head to listen, wasn’t smelling.
 
Few years back my dog wasn't pointing it but standing in 1 place so I got a "on point" vibration. I arrived to find my dog with a wth look on his face as he was looking at a pile of 🐫 dung. Almost the size of a poolball and covered about the area of a 5 gallon bucket lid.

Some will have a idea where I was hunting. No it wasn't the zoo.
 
Weimdogman said:
Few years back my dog wasn't pointing it but standing in 1 place so I got a "on point" vibration. I arrived to find my dog with a wth look on his face as he was looking at a pile of 🐫 dung. Almost the size of a poolball and covered about the area of a 5 gallon bucket lid.

Some will have a idea where I was hunting. No it wasn't the zoo.
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Oddly enough, I'm thinking this occurred only a few miles south of Shithouse Corner.
 
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Racoons in fields/cattails and porcupines in the grouse woods. We've been lucky to back out before a fight or a face full of quills. Those are the few times I've immediately switched from vibrate to shock on the collar and seems to have driven the point home. Those porcupines get your heart racing way way way too much. Piper has been 3 feet from a face full of quills a few times now. I've had wolf and coyote encounters as well but they seem to run at the first glance of me.
 
My buddies dog pointing a pig that was loose on an abandoned farm. There were two and came up and shared water with the dogs.
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Turkey, Deer, Skunk, Rabbits. I was face to face with an Iowa Booner Buck a few years back when I went in for the flush, I about lost my @#*% on that one. Another time I was hunting with a larger group, everyone was through the CRP and talking. His collar started beeping since he never quits hunting. About 15 feet into the grass, we ended up kicking up a doe and buck that were laying there within 30 yards of 8 guys.
 
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