re: Most Dangerous Animal You Have Come in Contact With in the Wild? (no snakes)

Bear in LA - A friend shot a deer and came to pick me up from my stand to help him load it. After stopping at the truck and dropping off our gear, we rode the 4 wheeler to his stand where he claims he drug the deer. Deer is gone and we can't find it with just the 4 wheeler lights. Go back to camp and get flashlights and pick up a blood trail leading away from the stand. Friend is pissed that someone has come and stole his deer. Blood is smeared over a large log where the deer was obviously drug. We decide we should go back to camp and get our guns. Upon returning with lights and guns to the log we see a bear get off of the deer, which is only about 30-40 yards away, and very slowly ease further into the woods behind the deer. After some period of time standing there staring in the woods we actually drug the deer to the 4 wheeler and haul it out, having it fall off the rack at least once before we make it back to the camp/truck. It was a small buck and the bear had eaten his buck parts.

Bear/Bobcat - I was on a little tripod stand deer hunting when a bobcat came down the levee of a flooded field right by the stand. I shot him on the levee which was also the road to the stand and continued hunting. Right before dark a bear that was known to be in the area came out in the back of the field. This bear has been seen multiple times and on many trail cam photos. Everyone was convinced he was 500 lbs + which I know is very large (record size even). When this bear walked into the brush angling toward me and the levee I got a little nervous and decided I would head on to the truck because if he continued in that direction he would run right into me in the stand. I got out of the tripod and hit the levee intending to grab the bobcat as I made my way. The bobcat that I "killed" over an hour before took exception to me leaning down to grab it and swatted at my hand missing me by inches. Needless to say, with my attention on the bear the bobcat scared me nearly to death. To continue the bear story, after I shot the bobcat again I took a couple steps to see if the bear could be seen running away but instead I saw him at the other end of the levee staring me down. I headed for the truck and drove back to pick up the bobcat.