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    Quote Originally Posted by woodbutcher View Post
    Don`t know about mountain lions in Florida where I grew up.But I know for a fact of two Jaguars(and no not the stick shift dual OHC type).One was shot by a trapper out in the Fellsmere area,and the second trotted across the road in front of me out West of Ft Pierce Fl.Absolutely beautiful animals.
    Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
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    I was trail riding on a friends property on merrit island some years back. My wife and I had just loaded up the horses and were heading home when a Jaguar walked in front of the truck. The property ordered the space center. Anyone who has ever worked out there knows that the wildlife out there is unbelievable . We could never get anybody to believe us but we know what we saw! It was no more than 10 foot in front of the truck !
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    Government wonks do strange things to help prop up their policy guidelines and long-held beliefs. I saw a bear at night in early 1982 at a mountain homicide scene south of Palm Desert. Cal-DFG insisted that I was mistaken, but I know what I saw and the guy that relieved me at 1 A.M. was on scene until 9 A.M., and took photos of the paw prints in the soft soil areas nearby once the sun came up and allowed for safe walk-about. There were a LOT of prints. With a dead body close by, you gotta figure that carnivores could have tried a bite or 2--and might have developed a taste for human meat. A little unsettling at the time, one of those instinctive visceral responses that kept our species alive during the times of dire wolves, short-nosed bears, and sabertooth cats.

    When you jump into the ocean or step into the back-country, you become part of the food chain--and not always at the top of same.
    I don't paint bullets. I like Black Rifle Coffee. Sacred cows are always fair game. California is to the United States what Syria is to Russia and North Korea is to China/South Korea/Japan--a Hermit Kingdom detached from the real world and led by delusional maniacs, an economic and social basket case sustained by "foreign" aid so as to not lose military bases.

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    We've got lions in Wyoming, too.
    This one ran into a 410 grain cast bullet (Montana Bullet Works) in front of 30 grains of H-110 from a .500 Linebaugh. Tipped him right out of the tree.




    9.3x62: You're absolutely right about the visceral response.

    About 5-6 years ago one late night, I beat John Linebaugh back from Cody to his place tucked up by the Montana border. I was sitting on the porch enjoying the stillness and dark. I decided to see if I could get a coyote to respond. I used a mouth call and let loose with an interrogation/lone howl, then sat back on the porch. I could hear the sound echoing through the draws in the valley...no response.
    Oh well, no coyotes in the area....

    About ten minutes later, the calm was absolutely shattered as a deep, baritone, drawn out howl of a single wolf cut loose about 200 yards above on the hillside behind the house. It was so loud and felt so close, the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and I swore the I could feel the sound reverberate in my chest.

    It was at that precise moment I thought: "Now I know how my cavemen ancestors felt."

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    Quote Originally Posted by cas View Post
    NY says "You didn't see what you saw."

    Okay... what about these photos?

    PETS! NY claims they're all illegal pets that were released into the wild.
    Yeah oaky.. New York, leading the nation in released pet mountain lions.
    I saw one two and a half years ago. It crossed the road in front of me. I was on RT 8 headed south, a few miles south of New Berlin, just by the last cross over to Norwich. I never reported it as I knew they would blow smoke. With out a good, clear , high res pic, there was no lion.
    I saw tracks in the woods once as well, with in months of that sighting. Cat prints, scattered snow patches. About 4-5 feet between tracks. It was going uphill, jumping to land on a log not covered in snow. That may have been a lesser cat, bob cat maybe, was not a house cat.

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    mountain lion in NH

    I live in rural NW Washington. I have not seen a live cougar. I believe they have seen me. I was recently fishing alone in a river in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. I could not shake the feeling that I was being stalked. The hair on the back of my neck would not go down. It must be a primitive instinct. But I really believe I was being stalked by a cougar.

    Last winter I was hiking in the park. We went up a snow covered trail. On the way back we ran across a set of deer tracks. Imposed over the deer tracks was a set of cougar tracks.

    But I have never seen a live cougar in the wild. Not for lack of trying. They are here.


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    John in WY,

    Very nice cat there!

    I laugh though, you used a coyote vocalization and found a wolf. I use a wolf howler to shut the coyotes up when they get too loud.

    I recently acquired a thermal weapon sight, mounted on a flat top AR I figure on giving them lead treatments in stead off wolf howls from now on.

    fn1889m,

    I asked a Yakama tribal member what the translation was that they called the cougar, he said they called them the “ghost of the forest”.

    Works for me!

    Best regards

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    Where and when can they be hunted in WY (or anywhere)? Is there a season or "as needed"? (bothering livestock, for example).

    I usually carry when I hike the mountains of NH. After seeing that cat, I'll be carrying bigger.

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    Hi...
    There have been a lot of reports of mountain lions in Pennsylvania the last few years...mostly in the mid-state and northern tier counties. That area is heavily wooded mountains with lots of deer, bears and coyotes.
    The PA. Game Commission says there are no mountain lions in the state.
    I remember when they said there weren't any coyotes here, either.
    Now they are ubiquitous and we regularly see them dead on the road.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Battis View Post
    Where and when can they be hunted in WY (or anywhere)? Is there a season or "as needed"? (bothering livestock, for example).
    I usually carry when I hike the mountains of NH. After seeing that cat, I'll be carrying bigger.
    Here in NH you are allwed to shoot anything that is damaging or pestering your farm animals OR your crops. Protect your chickens, geese, deer, cows....anything. Out of season you need to get the OK from F&G. They usually say yes.
    There is actually a law on the books that allows you to shoot them.
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    That law of which you speak.Does that cover the F&G people also?
    Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Cohen View Post
    My you Americans live in a dangerous place, lions bob cats bears and such, all we down under have is Drop bears wombats snakes and bloody socialists and the odd Kangaroo. regards Stephen
    Drop Bears...hahahahaha. First heard a story about them not long ago.
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