• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    I’m now imagining being in the woods at night with a headlamp on. An elk, head down, charging me with its rack pointed at my chest and glowing like its fresh from the flames of hell.

    I’m not ruling that out as a way I might like to die one day.

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      27 days ago

      Scary enough to stumble on one in the deep woods at 3AM. One of the only times I nearly drew my gun was seeing a triangular face staring at me from 15’. Had seen a Florida Panther the year before and my dumb ass thought that’s what it was.

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      26 days ago

      They’re not painting elk. They’re painting reindeer. They’re always just chilling on the roads in Lapland.

      They’re semi domesticated, so a bit different to handle than wild elk, especially the ones like in America, which are bigger than ours. We do have moose though, but no-one tried to paint them, lol.