Make sure you always take your lever to check your feeder!

[rangerider7]

[2ndovc]

WOW!!

And she's lookin' kinda scrawny/ hungry.
Thinking she needs to be "terminated with extreme predudice"

jb

[Bigahh]

WOW! 93 Degrees, hes looking for water !

[Blaine]

Looks mad....

[jdad]

That looks like one nasty Tom.

[Rube Burrows]

Where was that at? Not your feeder in TX was it?

[Old Ironsights]

There another one back behind the feeders? Back left corner, 3rd post right...

[Mike D.]

Has to be somewhere in the southwest. Feeders are strictly outlawed in CA, but mountain cats are encouraged.

[RIHMFIRE]

........i do!

[rafter-7]

and he sure looks hungry!.. Times must be tuff all over

^

[kimwcook]

There was a cougar sited less than a mile from my homestead. There's a lot of cats around here, but this one didn't even run. It sat there and watched the 18 year old kid moving irrigation water lines. Luckily there was a huge canal between the two. Yotes around here like crazy, they don't scare me, just respect for what a pack could do. It's a big cat that gives me pause. In fact I walk to my haystack and feed my horses wearing my Colt SAA and a good sized knife.

You never know when you're going to need an equalizer and that goes for when you're in town too, not just out on a walk about.

Thanks for the pick, RR7.

[RKrodle]

There another one back behind the feeders? Back left corner, 3rd post right...

That's what I was looking at also OI. I tried to blow it up but it was to blurry.

[Ysabel Kid]

WOW!!

And she's lookin' kinda scrawny/ hungry.

+1

I was thinking the same thing. Looks desperate and mad...

[rangerider7]

Not mine, but in Texas.

[TMair]

A friend of mine, lives just a few miles from me, they raised sheep for a lot of years, then branched out to cattle, they have hay stacks around their home and the deer come down to feed, anyway he herd something out side, so went out to check it, but he did take the Winchester 94 30-30 with him, climed up on the haystack and the cat attacked him, he did get the shot off and killed it, then he did the "right" thing and called the fish and game, they took the cat, he offered to buy it from them when they told him it would be auctioned off, no go, I told him he should have just taken it and tanned it himself without calling the DWR!
Terry

[Hobie]

Lady sent her husband in to the store today to buy her a gun. Went out to walk the dog, dog gets away (guess she dropped the leash) and goes crazy barking she grabs it up and then looks up in the tree and sees... yep, you guessed it. Cat comes out of the tree and is now between the lady with dog and the house. Ran off when husband opened the door and yelled for the wife. She now wants a gun to carry around the house.

[Griff]

Actually for an adult cat, I'm thinkin' he looks pretty healthy. Reminiscent of our old lease north of Sanderson.

[shooter]

Lady sent her husband in to the store today to buy her a gun. Went out to walk the dog, dog gets away (guess she dropped the leash) and goes crazy barking she grabs it up and then looks up in the tree and sees... yep, you guessed it. Cat comes out of the tree and is now between the lady with dog and the house. Ran off when husband opened the door and yelled for the wife. She now wants a gun to carry around the house.

But Hobie, I didn't think there were supposed to be big cats in VA?!?! That lady must have been seeing things

[MrMurphy]

Friend who's land i hunt hogs and coyotes on has a " leave the house armed or else" rule, even to walk the dogs to the gate (100 yards) and back.

Considering between his house and the gate he's shot a bobcat and scared off a pack of coyotes, and he's had hogs come up to his porch...... and that's not counting his other acreage.


If you walk his property checking feeders and looking for sign, you bring at minimum a pistol, preferably a shotgun/rifle.

[Blaine]

There was a cougar sited less than a mile from my homestead. There's a lot of cats around here, but this one didn't even run. It sat there and watched the 18 year old kid moving irrigation water lines. Luckily there was a huge canal between the two. Yotes around here like crazy, they don't scare me, just respect for what a pack could do. It's a big cat that gives me pause. In fact I walk to my haystack and feed my horses wearing my Colt SAA and a good sized knife.

You never know when you're going to need an equalizer and that goes for when you're in town too, not just out on a walk about.

Thanks for the pick, RR7.

Over here on this side, too..... I actually don't varmit call anymore alone because of what's listening besides coyotes and bobcats

[Hobie]

Lady sent her husband in to the store today to buy her a gun. Went out to walk the dog, dog gets away (guess she dropped the leash) and goes crazy barking she grabs it up and then looks up in the tree and sees... yep, you guessed it. Cat comes out of the tree and is now between the lady with dog and the house. Ran off when husband opened the door and yelled for the wife. She now wants a gun to carry around the house.

But Hobie, I didn't think there were supposed to be big cats in VA?!?! That lady must have been seeing things

THAT became the next topic of discussion! The VaDGIF guys insist that pumas/mountain lions/panthers/painters don't live in VA or even WV. People are still seeing them and more often at that. The govt has supposedly admitted that they've reintroduced "red" wolves to counter the coyote problem. Those are supposedly sterilized pairs. They had denied that.

[gundownunder]

I notice y'all saying he looks hungry. Maybe I don't know as much about big cats as you guys, but he looks lean, healthy and fighting fit to me. Check out all that muscle in the shoulders, loins, and thighs, reminds me of an elite athlete.

[fordwannabe]

Yeah ,we keep being told there are no big cats in Pa either. I don't think they are called the Penn state NITTANY DOGS. I was out deer hunting in Fulton county a couple of years ago, and if it wasn't a big cat(of which I have seen several, working on a cattle ranch and hunting all over Montana in the 1980's) it was doing one he77 of a good impersonasion of one. I was told by the locals he/she had been seen several times and the only people who didn't know the cat was there are from the game commision. Tom

[BigSky56]

downunder, theres alot of tough in a cats shoulder Ive seen a tom take 5 hits in the shoulder from a 44 mag with rem 240 core rots the bullets blew up on the shoulder blade one 357 Buffalo bore 180 thru the shoulder dropped him, its the bullet not the caliber, I usually use a 22 mag to take cats as Iam not try to save the skull. cat looks healthy this cat has its ears back because of the animal behind it whether its another cat or dog I cant tell. danny

[awp101]

Good looking cat, relatively speaking.

Whatever is behind it is about the same size as him. I don't know if two toms that size would share the same space though. Maybe a female companion?

This is my new work computer background.

[SJPrice]

I never go out the door without at least a revolver, 45 Colt and usually I am carrying a rifle as well. 45-70 or now 348 Winchester. One night last October around 3 AM Toby, the house Yorkie, woke me to go outside. As usual I stepped out the door first and was brought wide awake by the cougar sitting about 30 yards away under the yard light. The cat spotted me and beat it for the woods about 100 yards behind the house. It looked to be about 100 pounds or so. I have not seen it since, but I have twice since ran into tracks on game trails in the bottoms behind my property. I always carried for the coyotes to protect Toby in the past, and now I carry to protect us both. It is my understanding however that cougars are protected in Texas. Does anyone know different?

[klhill]

SJPrice, the last time I looked at the Texas F&G booklet there was no closed season or limit in El Paso County.I am at the edge of the city limits next to the Franklin Mountains Park and a neighbor saw one (mountain lion) in the arroyo behind their house.Also lots of Bobcats have been seen in the area.

[DennisD]

"scrawny", that cat is in great shape; look at the muscle tone. That cat is ready to take on any comers.

A cat was recently spotted near my weekend place in the woods (near Columbus, TX, if anyone knows where that is). The ones spotted around here lately are very dark colored, almost black. Need a gun AND a good light when moving around after sundown.

[SJPrice]

SJPrice, the last time I looked at the Texas F&G booklet there was no closed season or limit in El Paso County.I am at the edge of the city limits next to the Franklin Mountains Park and a neighbor saw one (mountain lion) in the arroyo behind their house.Also lots of Bobcats have been seen in the area.

My mistake, I did some further research and found that mountain lions are not protected and are treated like coyotes. nuisance predator with no season or bag limit.

[shooter]

My mistake, I did some further research and found that mountain lions are not protected and are treated like coyotes. nuisance predator with no season or bag limit.

It is my understanding that you can kill them whenever and wherever you see them, but you are supposed to call Texas Parks and Wildlife to report where you killed it so they can keep track of them.

[Malamute]

I always grab a pistol when I step out the door. We have cats and a few other things.


This was trapped not too far from me and relocated. Just a yougun, but there's been plenty around that arent so small.