Originally Posted by
GhostHawk
A you are what you eat. Personally I'd pass on eating big cats.
B I happened to watch a youtube video of a leopard hunt in africa. Hunters were up high in a good blind. Range perhaps 35 yards. They had a dead game animal carcass wired between 2 tree's.
Hunter took the shot, leapard was face on to him, crouching low so really all he had was a head shot. It did not look, sound, or judging by recoil that it was a small caliber.
In fact I suspect it was big.
Leopard took the hit dead center in the head, dropped for a second or 2, and for the next 30 to 40 seconds mauled the heck out of anything within reach.
5" tree branches shedding chips like they had been hit by a double bitted axe. Rear leg of the game animal bitten to the bone, and front claws shredding it.
That cat died HARD, and slow. From what appeared to be a perfect brain shot.
Don't think I'd ever care to be in the same country with any of the big 3, Lion, Tiger, Leopard.
Mountain Lions tend to be leary of men. They have been hunted and hunted hard.
And they are not that common this side of the Missouri. You hear talk of a straggler now and then in Minnesota and eastern ND. But not often.