Talking about Bullocks on the other thread.
I remember only a few months ago, I had seen this field which was right in a town and looked like it hadn`t been ploughed for years. I thought , " its got to be heaving".
Got the OK to go on it, but left it for a while due to other circumstances.
Anyway few months down the line i decided to have a mooch on it.
Got there and noticed two horses grazing over yonder on the field, but decided they were well enough out of sight so i ventured on to this field.
Anyway after about half an hours detecting and disappointingly not a lot forth coming i was startled by a Thunderous sound of Horse hooves COMING MY WAY.!!!
Looking up those two by now " enormous" horses were bearing down on me faster than a Ferrari.
My blood froze and i felt my legs go to jelly. This must be how you feel when you stand on a railway track & a train is coming to wards you i would imagine.
My life flashed before my eyes. I waited for me to end up flat as a pancake as you see on the cartoons as they swept over me. I could now see the whites of their wild eyes. I felt sick!
Just as they got withing ten feet of me, i instinctively raised my arms forward and held my "fragile" detector outstretched towards them .
They both braked hard and one went one way and the other the other way around me Circling me .
One was Snorting and nodding his head up and down pawing the ground as he did.
My botty felt like it was sucking me from the outside in.
What i didn`t know then, was this was a Stallion ,put in with a mare to mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess he saw me as a rival !.
Now this big evil **** wanted my Ass for breakfast,i could tell.
He continually pawed the ground and was snorting and whinnying like a banshee .
My detector was STILL outstretched towards him and he ,all of a sudden did a whirling back kick at me with both back legs. Luckily ,i backed off quickly & he missed me
OMG i was crapping myself by now. I REALLY though i was gonna die.
To cut a long story short this went on what seemed like an eternity, but probably was about ten to fifteen minutes. Which i can assure you was 10 to 15 minutes too long.
Twice more the stallion whirled around trying to kick my brains out.
He then changed his tactics and came towards me head lowered ears back and then tried to bite me with the Biggest set of gnashers you`ve ever seen in your life.
I backed off again waving my arms franticly shouting, " gerroutovit "
By now i had inched towards a pool of water in a dip near the Stone wall. I decided to wade through this pond ,and try to get over the wall. Luckily for me the stallion didn`t follow me into the shallow pond and i reached the wall. I then got over it as quickly as i possibly could.
I was over , and out of danger AT LAST !
So my advice IS, always check the field out to see if there are any courting couples in there too.
I don`t think I`ll ever forget that encounter,and the best of it was I didn`t fancy his girlfriend anyway!!!