ColeT96
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A whopping zero. You're uneducated if you have
Mountain Lion Encounters
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I think we covered earlier in this thread why F&G, or in my case, TWRA , is not going to confirm any sightings. But as mentioned, you shoot one and they find out, you'll find out why you shouldn't have.
ColeT96
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Yep exactly
Once while hunting deer in eastern Washington, I knocked on the door of a house at the bottom of a long draw. I thankfully received permission to hunt the property.
I walked the same dirt road alongside the draw for two days. On the third day, I noticed big dog tracks on the dirt road and figured the property owner had been taking a walk with her dog the previous night.
At that point, I heard kittens meowing on in the bottom of the draw to my right.
What happened next made my hair stand up on end!
A mama lion started screaming on my left side just over a rise about 40 yards from me.
If someone would have seen me moving off, they would have thought I was the Roadrunner with a blur of legs!
I walked the same dirt road alongside the draw for two days. On the third day, I noticed big dog tracks on the dirt road and figured the property owner had been taking a walk with her dog the previous night.
At that point, I heard kittens meowing on in the bottom of the draw to my right.
What happened next made my hair stand up on end!
A mama lion started screaming on my left side just over a rise about 40 yards from me.
If someone would have seen me moving off, they would have thought I was the Roadrunner with a blur of legs!
Bitteroot
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I actually seen mine before she spotted me. That's gotta be a first but anyway she was sitting while licking her left shoulder just as I was raising my Marlin she caught my movement and launched herself as the bullet went right over the back, I couldn't believe that I missed at 20 yards but they are super fast and she hauled the mail down a wooded ravine, in deep snow up to the top of my gators and no blood to follow I felt a little defenseless as I lost the trail.
Where she went I'll never know.
Where she went I'll never know.
I read about a man at a campsite in Colo. That his dog was being attached by a lion was also coming at him, because this dog was headed his way too. He killed it with a shovel. The greenies came up with a law that stop lion hunting in colo. He was charge for killing the lion. Talk about get up close and personal. Unless he had a really a very long handle on that shovel. 
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That's a big tomcat.
The SSS club! for sure. Especially in Calif. At times in Mexico-North (aka) Cal. We would come accross deer that had been killed but eaten. We knew there was packs of dog running arounding doing the killing.
When hunting deer we never shot the Coyotes until we were done hunting. Dogs were a different story. We shot them onsite. They were just killing and not eating. We stopped that in a few areas that we hunted over the years.
At one time we never saw lion tracks either. After they made law that you counldn't shoot them. Them we began to spot lion tracks. The SSS rules them applied. Now every once in awhile a greene get worked over in Mexico-North. Too Bad, too bad!
I lived in PHX for a number of years, and was an avid mountain biker. One day, just a few miles from my home, I was grinding up a steep climb with my head down, focused on the trail. I glanced up, just in time to see the back half of a mountain lion, slink into the scrub brush ahead and to my left. I had no weapon, and was in a quandary. Keep going, knowing I could just crawl up this steep climb, or turn downhill, and race away and risk triggering it's "prey" response. I stood there for maybe 10 minutes trying to locate it but never did, and eventually rode to the top of the climb and down the other side. You couldn't have driven a straight pin up my backside with a sledge hammer, I was clenched so tight.
Two other incidents not involving me. A lady walked on to her patio to enjoy her coffee (again in the PHX), caught movement from the corner of her eye, and a mountain lion was drinking from her pool!
A mom was at the school bus stop, at the border of Mesa and Apache Junction (eastern suburbs of PHX), with her young child and several other kids. Glanced back over her shoulder and noticed movement in the brush. Lo and behold, a mountain lion stood observing them. They relocated the bus stop!
Two other incidents not involving me. A lady walked on to her patio to enjoy her coffee (again in the PHX), caught movement from the corner of her eye, and a mountain lion was drinking from her pool!
A mom was at the school bus stop, at the border of Mesa and Apache Junction (eastern suburbs of PHX), with her young child and several other kids. Glanced back over her shoulder and noticed movement in the brush. Lo and behold, a mountain lion stood observing them. They relocated the bus stop!
That's a big kitty. When you realize how bad a friggin house cat can tear you up, it's mind boggling to think what one of these could do.
I've always thought cats were the perfect killing machine. Fast, QUICK, quiet, strong, flexible, claws front and back, teeth, and a wicked temperament.
Bitteroot
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I'm told they don't run near as much as on TV, dogs have far more stamina, here's the dog man. I came across a Bob also but not near this size. They are very cool animals.
