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Post by callmaker on Jan 6, 2017 16:01:45 GMT -5
I'm in southeastern Texas and they are certainly here. Seen a couple, saw tracks many other times. About 4 or 5 years ago, a friend and I went to the hunting lease to hunt birds and we walked into the timber about 1/2 mile from the dirt trail. When we came out, we found a large set of cat tracks walking right over our own tracks from earlier. Turned off into the timber at the same place we did. Weird feeling wondering if, how close, how long we were watched or tracked. My 45 Colt stays with me now. Ha! I live and hunt in Southeast Texas too. And I have seen a couple of enormous Bobcats, but no such big cat. Be neat to get a crack at one though. You would think more game cameras would catch them out and about.... You would think game cam pics would be more frequent. But then, I can have deer tracks right in front of mine, and just pictures of squirrels. Haha! Agree that it would be very nice to get a crack at one.
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Post by cmh on Jan 6, 2017 20:32:12 GMT -5
Been doing alot of reading on Ben Lilly and paying alot if attention to this thread..... its a great one!!!
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 7, 2017 8:26:52 GMT -5
Some years back now, in Kelletville Penn., in the middle of the Allegheney Nat'l Forest is a bar owned by "Cougar Bob". Asked him about it one day soon after he he become the owner. Never saw a bar tender shut up sp fast. Always wondered why ? From that area, on towards Marienville Penn., is a section of the forest that was designated to return to Wilderness status. This where they released the "bad" bears live trapped from dumps or camp areas from the surrounding areas. I found out the hard way, this where much of my bear run-ins took place. I looked for emptyiest spot on the topo maps to hunt, fish, hike,backpack and camp. They looked for the biggest blank spot on the map too. A likely place for a cougar to take up residence.
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Post by bigbore442001 on Jan 7, 2017 20:20:58 GMT -5
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Post by hawg on Jan 8, 2017 18:10:53 GMT -5
I watched a Cougar stalk a Coues Deer in the Mountains of the Tonto National Forest....advantage Coues Deer. Back home a few years ago, I was coming in from still hunting deer and creeping through a wooded portion of our property - I heard three lowd growls directly across a creek about 30 - 40 feet to my left and all hell broke loose through the brush. I was talking to a neighbor that is a serious hunter, trapper and taxidermist and he told me that this was a cougar and that he had seen three over his lifetime. During the following months, our other neighbor saw the big cat in the back pasture on two occasions. This is the Cross Timbers Region of the Red River (Texas side).
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Post by Robster on Jan 9, 2017 18:52:42 GMT -5
Been doing alot of reading on Ben Lilly and paying alot if attention to this thread..... its a great one!!! Ben Lilly stories are great. I just finished Longwalkers by Jerry Lewis, another great book!!!
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Post by lobo on Jan 11, 2017 20:50:14 GMT -5
We got this picture off of one of our trail cams back in December of 2015. I'd like to hear yalls opinion on what you think it is in the picture. BTW, I live in south east Mississippi.
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Post by jimtx on Jan 11, 2017 23:20:34 GMT -5
I see a cat, not cougar, my buddy just showed me a bobcat of his trail cam, larger animal.
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Post by lobo on Jan 12, 2017 1:46:32 GMT -5
I see a cat, not cougar, my buddy just showed me a bobcat of his trail cam, larger animal. I added a picture of a deer for size comparison. It was taken only 28 minutes prior to the second pic.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 12, 2017 8:44:07 GMT -5
Well, it seems slightly closer to the camera than the deer was, maybe an issue in judging size ? Not experienced enough with field cam pics/vids. Why is it that suspicious critter pics are always blurred ? The deer and whole scene are clear enough. No, it's not that the cat was running, the scene around him blurred too, compared to the deer scene. Hmmnnn.. It does look big for house cat, too long for coyote, too..
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Post by tek4260 on Jan 12, 2017 9:23:51 GMT -5
Went to a local bar n grill with my wife and her parents last night. I noticed several cougars hanging around the bar sipping on various cocktails. I mentioned the phenomenon to my wife, but she was not impressed with the sighting nor my attempt at humor.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 12, 2017 9:49:19 GMT -5
You made the comment to your wife with her parents there ? Yikes ! Very brave or very..LOL.
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Post by contender on Jan 12, 2017 10:10:09 GMT -5
I hate it when we get blurred pics of interesting stuff. It's hard to tell in that pic,,, but POSSIBLY I see a tail curled back over the cat's back. if so,, that COULD POSSIBLY be a cougar.
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Post by bulasteve on Jan 12, 2017 17:42:02 GMT -5
Alrighty then, just got text, a cam trap baited with roadkill has been set in a metro park that's between me and 'burb where I work. On steelhead water near childrens sled hill no less. Friend is nuisance coyote trapper in that area. I'll not name county or park yet, will give them time to do their job first. My old 'hood actually. This almost has to be a released pet of some kind. Not even my imagination can see a breeding pop. making it's way there. We'll see. I'll try to post more if I hear more. Stay safe folks.
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Post by cmh on Jan 12, 2017 17:49:26 GMT -5
😲😲😲😲😲
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