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i am a 1911 fan myself .45

Me to and I work on them to . The Colt 70s Gold Cups nice . But this guy has the 38 . So just want to help him out with a good round for it . COOL

around here if it's in the pasture and aint on the hoof it dies. a 223 in the back window is pretty common.

We are constantly dealing with Bears here-last Summer I was on a walk and came face to face with Mama Bear and her two Cubs-I startled her and she hustled the Cubs up a dead tree-I didn't wait around to find out if she wanted to dance, and considered my self lucky she didn't want me up that tree-

For years the Ministry of Natural Resources has been swearing that there are no cougars in our area of Eastern Ontario despite numerous reported sightings (including ones by my daughter and our next door neighbour.) Just recently, however, they have admitted that the big cats do exist although it is still not clear if they are the (reportedly extinct) eastern cougar or western cougars which have moved into the area. They are still very rare and probably not a real threat although it is a concern for anyone with small children. Government agencies seem so worried that admitting to anything will cause widespread panic. Certainly bears are much more of a problem in this area.

I guess if you move near bear country,you are going to get bear,or gator country,you are going to get gators, but here it's mostly flat land, no mountains, we 've heard of bob cats in the hills south of us,thats why it's scarey, no one seems to know where this mountain lions are coming from, as far as killing it I have no problem,if itcome to me or him,I'll pay the freaking fine,if I can get the 38 out first with out shooting my oscar meyer instead,but this cats are known to hide to get you from behind by going for the neck, my grand children play in our back yard til dark on warm evenings,which is a great concern now.

I have removed many woodchucks from the yard, that was the only one that got away, or that took more than 1 shot!
We have many animals in the back yard, woodchucks & moles are the only ones not aloud! all others are my wifes pets. We have deer (and more) almost every day.

Pat

yummm...dinner

i have a panther living in my woods and the wife thinks its had cubs , she told me she thought she seen some little ones not long ago .. i have a one sided deal with said panther , it stays in the woods where it belongs fine , it starts making trouble it will be evicted in a very rude manner..

Check this out . This guy up in spooner WI . Looks outside and catches this . A Mountain Lion watching his kids playing on the floor .

About 15 years ago, I was hunting deer on over on Fort Lewis here in Tacoma and came upon something that struck me as kind of odd at first, and the thought of it still gives me shudders when I think about it.

After watching a couple trails from before sun-up until about 10:30, I figured I'd make a loop through the woods and head back to my truck, since I worked swings at the time and had to be to work at 3:00. Anyway, at about 11:00, I was coming up over this little hill and about 150 yards up ahead of me next to a fallen log, I saw what looked like puppys playing next to some Scotch Brush. I creeped up a little closer to get a better view because I couldn't quite tell what they were. Once I was within about 60 yards of them, it finally dawned on me that they were 3 mountain lion cubs.

I can still remember looking at the ground around me at that point and seeing all kinds of tracks I hadn't even noticed before. The hair on the back of my neck suddenly stood straight up, and I could sense something watching me....I thought for sure any second I was going to get nailed....I just didn't know where she was. I looked all around trying to catch some glimpse of her but couldn't, even though I was 100% certain she was watching me....waiting.

I instantly started backing away. I didn't make any quick movements (though I really, really wanted too) because I figured it would only provoke her. After what seemed like an eternity, I had finally made it back to my truck which was only about 1000 yards from where I'd first spotted the cubs. I loaded up my stuff and that was it, I was done for the day.

I gained a whole new appreciation for hunting that day; I was glad that she had come up empty handed, just like me. If I'd actually gotten a deer that morning or gotten any closer to her cubs, I may have had her, literally, breathing right down my neck.

I'll also say that I can understand why extreme sport junkies do what they do. The intensity of the adrenaline rush that morning was definitely something that I had never sensed before, and haven't since.

Thanks for the photos,
Dutch

A year or two ago we had a number of big-cat sightings where I live in northeast Tarrant County, Texas (I can see the Texas Motor Speedway if I want to get up on the roof).

Actually, I don't get up on the roof much anymore. People talk about me enough as it is.


The Perot boys own a lot of yet undeveloped land close to where we live and they reported the loss of some purebred Black Angus calves. Some of my neighbors have had the stuffing (I'm watching my language here) scared out of them when they stepped out in the back yard after dark for a smoke.

....... Or to do what some of us less civilized rural types do when we go out back after dark .......

But now the area is developing very rapidly and the cats evidently have seen fit to relocate. For some reason I sort of hate it that they had to. Possums and skunks and armadillos and raccoons don't create nearly the excitement that a 150 pound cat does.


Jim