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Well, the most hair-raising example is their ability to slip in to within 15 or 20 yards of me or a group without making a sound after I (we) had played recorded BF sounds. When no response was heard after about 30 to 45 minutes, and we relaxed and started walking around or talking/laughing, one or two of them would make a limb-breaking and rock kicking bluff charge through the thickest brush to within a few feet of us. Of course they would then run like crazy out of hearing. One night - when there was five in my group of tourists - right after I played a call, a coyote came charging in from the north and was within a few few of two of the folks.(It was whining like a coyote but we didn't see it). The coyote (?) then left without a sound. Everyone huddled, scared as the dickens, and after a few minutes the two women began laughing loudly. At that time we were looking north, some with flashlights. Then a BF huffed from about 15 yards away south and bluff charged through a very dense thicket. He came crashing through the stuff to within about ten feet of us. The group beat me to the trucks only because they were younger. Some have used my cooking pots and pans for target practice with pine cones, sweet gum balls or acorns at night when I would be cooking dinner and step away from the camp stove for a few seconds. When they did that, I would face the woods on that side and ask them to "stop that" in a normal tone of voice. They always did. (There was a large tarp awning over my "kitchen", the objects were thrown "straight line". Running by the camp and then slipping back to push down big dead trees, then running back by camp in the other direction is some more of their macho, "showing out" things.