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SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 03:24 PM
I got called out to location yesterday. This place is the remotest of the remote. It's about 10 miles north and then about 15 miles east of Stinnet, TX (aka panhandle hell). If anyone knows where the 2 battles of Adobe Mounds was fought, well, I'm about 200 yards from the memorial markers. I'm going to start a thread about it as soon as I can get some pics.

So anyway...

I'm driving down a rural county road lined on both sides by barbed wire fences. I'm alway kind of leary about these road because of stray cattle, deer, and now pronghorns. About a hundred yards in front of me was a bush growing up against the barbed wire. Behind the bush was a lone pronghorn. He saw me about the time I saw him. He started running straight at me & I hammered the brakes. About 15 yards in front of me he cut right in front of my truck while I'm thinking "don't do it, don't do it!" I hit him at about 40 mph on the right side of my front bumper. I felt the truck come up like I went over him. I looked back in the rearview mirror fully expecting to see a big pile of dead pronghorn. He wasn't there. I look back to my right and there he stands stunned as hell. I would have shot him to put him out of his misery but I can't bring a firearm to the well site. I got out and he limped/dragged himself off into the distance. I wish the damned thing wouldn't have run out in front of me & or I'd just killed it outright. Oh well, I guess the coyotes gotta eat too.

http://www.lewis-clark.org/media/images/an_pronghorn-Sherman-run.jpg

http://www.consignall.ca/members/900262/reg_1026t.jpg

The good news (at least for me) is he didn't even put a scratch on the ol' Ford.
Petro-Sooner
5/12/2006, 03:30 PM
I can't bring a firearm to the well site.

I can think of probable reasons, :D but would like know why not.
Petro-Sooner
5/12/2006, 03:34 PM
He started running straight at me

What a dumb ***, er dumb pronghorn
IB4OU2
5/12/2006, 03:36 PM
Dang! Pronghorns good eaten! Glad your'e OK 68.
Dio
5/12/2006, 04:28 PM
No Pronghorn Thursday?
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 05:25 PM
Dang! Pronghorns good eaten! Glad your'e OK 68.

Yeah, I'm fine...scared the carp outta me though. :D

I did have a knife & woulda slit his throat, skin him (well, not me but the dude I'm workin' with) & put him on the grill, but the dumb thing ran off. :mad:
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 05:26 PM
No Pronghorn Thursday?

No pronghorn ANY DAY! :D
TheHumanAlphabet
5/12/2006, 05:28 PM
Been out to LaBarge Wyoming a couple of times. Pronghorn are the biggest threat. Man that is desolate...Nothing but a few rare small scrubs and prairie grass for eons...Then you see large herds of pronghorn. During hunting season, the hunters park outside of the facility with the rifles in the rack and then after work go out and don't go far for a kill.
fadada1
5/12/2006, 05:43 PM
sounds about as smart as a canadian goose - those HAVE to be the dumbest animals on the planet.
Flagstaffsooner
5/12/2006, 05:51 PM
Dang! Pronghorns good eaten! Glad your'e OK 68.The only time I ever ate any it was a tough as a Safeway steak.
StoopTroup
5/12/2006, 05:55 PM
You should have gotten out of the truck and kicked his a$$.

http://media.putfile.com/mad-deer
StoopTroup
5/12/2006, 06:09 PM
or...check this one out.

http://media.putfile.com/Deer-gets-slammed

or

http://media.putfile.com/oh-my-deer
Mongo
5/12/2006, 06:40 PM
Hey SoonerBorn68, what do you do for a livin'?
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:45 PM
I'm an MWD hand in the oilfield. Basically I watch a computer and monitor the direction and angle in directional drilling.
Mongo
5/12/2006, 06:47 PM
I am a mudlogger, so I can relate. Those wells are pretty high pressure arent they?
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:47 PM
I'm also an expert pronghorn runner overer.
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:50 PM
heh, we got our bit, motor, and MWD tool packed off today by 20lbs of cedar fiber & cotton seed hulls. When I went to back off the set screws on our pulser sub mud shot out the top like a little volcano. :D Sent it up about 20 feet and scattered the floor crew.
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:51 PM
Mongo, you ever get sent to Hell? aka the Tejas panhandle.
Mongo
5/12/2006, 06:54 PM
No I have the sweet job of drilling in low pressure eastern OK. My company doesnt do anything ouside of OK. I lived in west texass and have family in the panhandle, so I feel your pain.
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:57 PM
Damn, I wish I could get back to Eastern OK...8K ft. TD's, No LCM, 2 weeks of drilling that doesn't take 30 days.

I've been stuck out here since about Nov. & since I live in Norman I've seen I-40W more times than I ever wanted to.
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 06:58 PM
It's a boring assed drive fo sho.
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 07:01 PM
I've been up for about 36 hrs. straight. This LCM bidness is BS...we packed off on the first try, then found out the motor packed off as well, had a tool failure on surface, my back up tool didn't have the right software...etc, etc, etc...just another typical job I suppose.
Mongo
5/12/2006, 07:03 PM
That sucks, What formation are yall in or going to? Running gamma?
SoonerBorn68
5/12/2006, 07:58 PM
Hell, I'm MWD, they don't tell us that kind of stuff.

Actually...no gamma, & we tied in @ 5800 & are going to 9500, averaging about 18 ROP.

...and the boss said we'd only be out 5-6 days.