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Mountain Lion Attack stopped in the deer woods...close call!
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<blockquote data-quote="mnoland30" data-source="post: 2023319" data-attributes="member: 29323"><p>Well done! I've had 3 close encounters in NM. The last time, I had fallen on a prickly pear cactus and had my pants down around my ankles while pulling spines out of my butt. My rifle and knives were several feet away on the dead deer I had just cleaned. I glanced to my right and saw eyes shining back in the dark about 20 yards away. I upped the brightness on the headlamp and identified what he was. He could have had me right then. Apparently he wasn't that hungry. I retrieved my rifle, and parted his hair with a bullet. He leaped straight up in the air, and took off. I jacked another round in so fast that I was never able to find the ejected shell. I think it landed in the next county. He didn't touch the meat I left nearby, and I saw no evidence of him the next day. No tracks in the rock. </p><p></p><p>I once had a black bear find my elk before I did. There was some meat missing, and scat all around. I kept looking around while processing the elk, but never saw it. I carry a S&W Scandium .357. It weighs 11 oz. empty, (which it never is) and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. When I was young, we controlled predators, and the woods were safe for children. Now we introduce wolves. Google wolf attacks on humans, and look at stories from the 1800's. The scariest one was a posse that went looking for two missing friends. They found 17 dead wolves, empty guns and bones.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mnoland30, post: 2023319, member: 29323"] Well done! I've had 3 close encounters in NM. The last time, I had fallen on a prickly pear cactus and had my pants down around my ankles while pulling spines out of my butt. My rifle and knives were several feet away on the dead deer I had just cleaned. I glanced to my right and saw eyes shining back in the dark about 20 yards away. I upped the brightness on the headlamp and identified what he was. He could have had me right then. Apparently he wasn't that hungry. I retrieved my rifle, and parted his hair with a bullet. He leaped straight up in the air, and took off. I jacked another round in so fast that I was never able to find the ejected shell. I think it landed in the next county. He didn't touch the meat I left nearby, and I saw no evidence of him the next day. No tracks in the rock. I once had a black bear find my elk before I did. There was some meat missing, and scat all around. I kept looking around while processing the elk, but never saw it. I carry a S&W Scandium .357. It weighs 11 oz. empty, (which it never is) and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. When I was young, we controlled predators, and the woods were safe for children. Now we introduce wolves. Google wolf attacks on humans, and look at stories from the 1800's. The scariest one was a posse that went looking for two missing friends. They found 17 dead wolves, empty guns and bones. [/QUOTE]
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