The trouble with cows:

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I saw a camel grab an M16 once (off of someones shoulder), then run, not long afterwards the shoulder strap was pulled from the beasts mouth and the whole herd ran for the hills.
Usually cows do scare rather easy, depends more on your body movements though.
 
these cows are probably fed from a vehicle sometimes so they associate one with food. Every time I drove the truck out into the pasture, they would come running. Some kinds of vehicle paint are very tasty to cows and they will scrape the heck out of them gnawing it off.
 
Somebody needs to talk to that bull about cover vs. concealment.
We've had some nice deer run across the range while it was hot. I'm pretty convinced they know the exact dates and units for deer season.
Our next door neighbor has a shooting bench and nice backstop he lets us use although sometimes it involves some cattle driving by ATV to get them behind us, they are definitely curious and not gun-shy. I worry they'll snicker at my shoddy groups :)
 
This happens to me as well. They also do it when I am cutting firewood. Its kind of scary because you can't hear them sneaking up on you with the saw running, then you turn around and they are right there!
 
our neighbor has a 4H project gone out of control...

with a "rescue" donkey acting like a sheep dog to three Black Angus that are fatening up in the "yard"...

They come trotting over to the fence whenever the kids go out back, as they think they're going to get a carrot or tuft of the tall grass on the other side of the fence.

I walk the dog at night and take the short cut home up that trail some times and they seem to be attracted to my flashlight. They sure look a lot bigger in the dark.

They are indeed curious and habitual scrounges.
 
ArmedBear,
No, but I wish I did. I live just west of Roswell, NM. I can see the Capitans, & Sierra Blanca mountains from where I shoot. My goal is to some day live in Idaho.
Navaide
 
I drove through Roswell once. Great barbecued brisket, but I didn't see a single alien.:D
 
My family's cabin is in ann open range national forest. A few times a year we have to run the cows off the property, a worn out of crossman 760 with 2 pumps to the rump does the job nicely.
 
Not cow related, but animal on the range related...
I remember many a time at tank ranges at both Ft Riley and Knox where I could look through the night vision and see a herd of deer or flock of turkey out there. Kind of funny to imagine opening up with the .50 cal MG. Or even better, deer hunting with a 120mm cannon, hehe.
 
Roswell's on my route from Terlingua to Raton, among other jaunts. West from Roswell is a neat drive, going on over to Lincoln and then Carrizozo. There's a B&B in Lincoln with some of the world's finest coffee, and the owner is heavy into southwestern history.
 
Cows should be in a pen. Did you hear about the skipper of the US Destroyer Cowpen. She was relieved of "HER" command after being caught dragracing another ship in the Pacific. Then in rage she got her knickers all bunched in a wad. PMS'ed and took a hit of acid. Then wooped everybody's azz's on the bridge. Later, she was confined to her pen on the Cowpen.
 
went out to the farm today to do some plinking, cruised on out to the bottoms and I literally drove right up on an albino skunk out in a field along a wood line. Got within 30 yards of him and he never even noticed. Solid white with pink eyes. I guess he was also blind. I fired a warning shot to scare him off (cause I had no desire to kill it), lol, he froze, head a tail both came straight up...I got back in the truck and decided to let him make the calls in this relationship.
 
The 100 yrd berm at out local gun club is absolutely riddled with groundhog burrows and there USED to be about a dozen of those little buggers up on top of the berm WATCHING as we'd shoot. Every once in a while one would dissappear into the brush and then reappear at the 50 yrd line and sprint across the range back into the brush on the other side. (Think galumphing hairy brown thing zipping through your scope picture as you're zoning in for a screamer group.)

This went on most of last summer until, in late August, I ran into our club president and asked him about them. "Oh sure, if they're in front of the berm, not on top of it, and you get a shot... do it. We've trapped and poison bated for years w/o much success."

YAY! Open season on irritating big brown hairy galumphing thangs! Needless to say there will befive fewer grounhogs at the 50 yrd races this year.

To the OP.. funny and oh so true! Cattle will follow a cat around the feedlot just to have something to do.
 
here,s what happens to cows that wander on to my shooting range,instance hamberger. eastbank.
 

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I work on a Navy Small Arms range. Typically we will get all of our gear setup while its still dark, and then sit around drinking coffee/ checking email/etc. while we wait for the sun to come up.

The pits we shoot into have a mound about 50 yards in front of the to conceal acoustic targeting systems, pop-ups, and the like.


I wasn't actually on the range this day, but i hear the story over and over again.

One day we were testing Anti-material rifles. We were shooting at stacks of spaced steel and aluminum plates, with a 6' x 6' backer, The sun came up, we verified the dope on the rifle from the previous day, and had the RSO turn on the red light. My colleague got behind the rifle, took aim and missed the plates with a .50 APIT, but did manage to hit the backer, fllowed by a gigantic puff of feathers from behind the target.

I don't think that turkey was expecting to get hit by a .50, at 1000 yards, first thing in the morning...
 
I am infamous among my friends and relatives for having cow troubles while hunting lol. I seem to be a regular "cow magnet"

When I first got into calling coyotes, this is what I managed to call up the first time out. (pic taken from about 6 feet away)
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This was taken of me as we were heading out on a hog hunt. ;)
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