Scary situation

here in this town that we live in, we have ahd two mountain loins come in
to town, one this last week was at some folks back door looking in ,the home
is just on the out skirts of town, the first one was this last summer,it was in town,one block from high school,3 1/2 blooks from the private school our grand daughter goes to. they were both males,2 to 3 years old,well over 100 lbs. each, they have no clue where they are coming from, hell ! I pack my nine or the 38 just to go take the grabage out the alley,(never know right?)
i know has nothing to do with cars but I thought I'd just share it with you all..

people are swearing that they are seeing the big cats around here also
but our game commission just keep saying that it's not possible.
I guess someone will have to get hurt or worse until they believe it.

here both cats had to be killed,but when print on our paper it's
in some little corner,like they are trying to hide it from the public,
it's like you said, someone is going to have to get hurt before they
really let us know, it's a small town and not everyone gets the paper
including me :whacked: , it's know as last weeks news paper:LOL: :LOL:

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Originally Posted by renu36

here in this town that we live in, we have ahd two mountain loins come in
to town, one this last week was at some folks back door looking in ,the home
is just on the out skirts of town, the first one was this last summer,it was in town,one block from high school,3 1/2 blooks from the private school our grand daughter goes to. they were both males,2 to 3 years old,well over 100 lbs. each, they have no clue where they are coming from, hell ! I pack my nine or the 38 just to go take the grabage out the alley,(never know right?)
i know has nothing to do with cars but I thought I'd just share it with you all..

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There was a picture of a moutain lion that was sent to the Des Moines register that was taken about 500 yds. away that the DNR says is a large house cat.
What they can't explain is the large foot prints that where made in the snow.:LOL:

We have the same problem here in our small town in Nebraska. The mayor called the game and parks and they said we couldn't shoot them, make a bet. One of our elem. teachers was out running on a country road and came face to face with one lion. In western Neb. they have a season on lions this year. I dont care what month it is, if its between them or my grandkids its gone.

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Originally Posted by DennyW

Well, you know how that gov stuff goes. It ain't there at all. Your just imagining things.... :LOL: :LOL:

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that kind stuff has been going on for years here, in the country large cats
were seen by ranchers, of course the gov. said only to be large house cats
but couldn't explain how a horse got attacked, one day on my way to see
to see the doc. in Wyo. I was still in Neb. ahead of me I saw a small heard of
of deer or antelope being followed by this animal,too large to be a dog or wolf
but small enough to be a small bear, no I was not drinking or smoking anything, I never told anyone for a long time until one day a farmer from\around that area came in to my shop, I told him my story, he did say
that some had spotted a bear in a small town just 20 mi. west of where
I saw what I did,**) **) here I thought I was going crazy**)

I can relate to what youre saying. We are only at the 2600 ft. level, but with the heavy snow at higher elevations, all the critters are coming down for food.With us its only a winter time situation. Our neighborhood chicken / cat / dog /rabbit supply is slowly getting thinned out, and it's 18 miles to town but the coyotes are making an appearence.

I carry my keltec .380 always. It is in my pocket even if all I have on is a robe. A lovely little paperweight, it conceals well.

A little prepardness can go a long way. BUT.. if I actually was in fear of a predator ( regardless of how many legs ) then I would be packing my springfield .40 Not that it is so much more powerful compared to the .380, but the larger frame makes for greater accuracy, and it feels more confident.

We live in the suburbs of Austin with a ravene between sub-divisions.We are constantly dealing with Coyote and Wild Hogs.Last week a lady was unable to exit her car because a Coyote was circling her car. A neighbor approached the animal trying to get him to leave and the animal charged him and he was injured. A stupid thing to do IMO.

The city is trapping with little success.My neighbors yards are being torn up by the Hogs,they really do a job on a yard.There is no season on hunting the Hogs in Texas,but you can't fire a gun in the city.He bought a bowand arrow but has not had a kill so far.

We have had 1 Coyote in the back yard,and we have a 7 ft. privacy fence.We loose a lot of pets in the sub-division to the critters.

someone was sayin they saw a moutain lion in MN. my thought yeah right but then it was mentioned on the local news. but around here in MN we have tons of cyotes once in a blue moon you see a wolf or a black bear. my uncle is a farmer an has lost afew calfs to wolfs or cyotes.

Pick up some 38+P Rounds the good ones are the Winchester Expansion Technology 130 gr . This will stop that big cat in his tracks . I have seen what one of them can do to a Deer . And Deer are a Lot bigger then you an I ! They are small Lions not big cats . As for Cyotes My Pit-Bull Great-Dane loves to hurt them :LOL: .

i am a 1911 fan myself :D .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

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Originally Posted by DennyW

Pack for your safety, but, try to remember to bang on something metal, that usually works to scare them back, hopefully.

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Something like a metal fire pin hitting brass :3dSMILE:

I had a big woodchuck digging under my garage, (The guy next door and I have woodchuck problems for 25yrs) I went and got my 22, shot him facing me. flipped him over, he got up, I had no more 22's, I had a pellet, hit him in the neck, he got up again, no more pellets, hit him with a bb, (LOL) , he then went under my shed, I called the guy next door and told him to keep his kids away from the shed, then I saw the woodchuck next to the shed, and then a arrow went thru it, the guy next door shot it, it got up and danced around to try to get the arrow out, then fell over dead, got up again and tried to get the arrow out, again fell over, and got up 3rd time again, pulled the arrow (a 4 blade razor tip) out and the 4 of us watch it run of into the woods! :eek: :HMMM:

Pat

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

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Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

Something like a metal fire pin hitting brass :3dSMILE:

I had a big woodchuck digging under my garage, (The guy next door and I have woodchuck problems for 25yrs) I went and got my 22, shot him facing me. flipped him over, he got up, I had no more 22's, I had a pellet, hit him in the neck, he got up again, no more pellets, hit him with a bb, (LOL) , he then went under my shed, I called the guy next door and told him to keep his kids away from the shed, then I saw the woodchuck next to the shed, and then a arrow went thru it, the guy next door shot it, it got up and danced around to try to get the arrow out, then fell over dead, got up again and tried to get the arrow out, again fell over, and got up 3rd time again, pulled the arrow (a 4 blade razor tip) out and the 4 of us watch it run of into the woods! :eek: :HMMM:

Pat

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are you sure it wasnt a crackhead they are kinda hard to bring down :D

Crackheads are tougher to bring down! I am going to bring one down here, I'm just waiting till we sell our house. ;)

Pat

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.

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Originally Posted by HemiTCoupe

Something like a metal fire pin hitting brass :3dSMILE:

I had a big woodchuck digging under my garage, (The guy next door and I have woodchuck problems for 25yrs) I went and got my 22, shot him facing me. flipped him over, he got up, I had no more 22's, I had a pellet, hit him in the neck, he got up again, no more pellets, hit him with a bb, (LOL) , he then went under my shed, I called the guy next door and told him to keep his kids away from the shed, then I saw the woodchuck next to the shed, and then a arrow went thru it, the guy next door shot it, it got up and danced around to try to get the arrow out, then fell over dead, got up again and tried to get the arrow out, again fell over, and got up 3rd time again, pulled the arrow (a 4 blade razor tip) out and the 4 of us watch it run of into the woods! :eek: :HMMM:

Pat

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This sounds like one of those spook movies!
That was one tuff woodchuck.

Around here they discontinued the second season on bears fifteen years ago. Now we got more than we know what to do with.
Coyotes and fox problems on the house-pets here too! I have to watch the dogs every time I let them out in the back yard as we can only have the 3' approved fence of the development.

I own many, but the 1911 is always loaded!

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! :3dSMILE: 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 . :eek:

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