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Mountain Lion Sighting #6692988 03/02/17 10:13 PM
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Delivering some deer up North early this morning and saw a Mountian Lion crawl over a game fence like it was no big deal. He even perched on top for a minute. Incredible agility and awesome tail! First time I have personally seen one, it was incredible! This was on Hwy 83 North of 41 and Garvin's store. Anybody else spotted any in that area before?

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Very cools sighting!


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Originally Posted By: Dalroo
Very cools sighting!
I'd love to see one.....


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We have them in Montell south of campwood not to far from their.

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Had a lease off 83 between 41 and I-10 years ago. One of the guys on the lease saw one walk between his blind and feeder. I asked him why he didn't shoot it and he said he was stunned in disbelief and by the time he got his wits about him, it was gone.

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Same area! Awesome. Yeah, it took me a minute to realize what i was seeing.

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Wish I could see that. Sounds like an awesome experience. Thought I did in Coleman/Runnels County back in the late '80s, but it was so fast that I couldn't be sure. And lots of time since then.

And delivering deer? Like to the processor?

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No, we dart/capture exotics. A group to a fellow THFer.

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My wifes uncle was a biologist with TPWD for 30 years and his specialty was Mountain Lions. The knowledge he has about these animals is astounding. I love sitting around the fire and listening to his stories about them.

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Is Garvins store between Kerrville & Rocksprings?


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Originally Posted By: Stub
Is Garvins store between Kerrville & Rocksprings?
Roughly, yes.

Very cool! Will need to keep my eyes open next time I'm out there! I hunt near Junction on 83 and near Rocksprings on 41. up

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I bet there are more around than most would believe, had never thought about one going over high fence but as strong and agile as they are I bet that would ne no problem.


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That's awesome.

We hunt there and have had family ranching in that area for a very long time.

They are out there. You don't see them often, but they're definitely out there.

I would be torn about shooting one if I saw it, but I think if I did not shoot it the ghosts of all my ranching relatives would come and get me.

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My buddy hunts right on the Mason/Llano county line and he has seen a nice one out there. Beautiful country for one to run around in.

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How far north of Garvin Store? Lions frequent that area fairly often as there is an abundance of game and more that adequate cover. Near the West Kerr Ranch?
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Originally Posted By: ErnestTBass
That's awesome.

I would be torn about shooting one if I saw it, but I think if I did not shoot it the ghosts of all my ranching relatives would come and get me.


Even though I admire this awesome cat as the apex predator in our great state and there is not a whole lot of them, I would shoot one in a heartbeat where I am at for there is to much livestock and not enough deer for one of those bad boys and us hunters.

Now if I lived in the hill country where the deer are plentiful and no livestock consideration, I would let it go unless it was a huge old trophy cat up

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That's awesome.

I would be torn about shooting one if I saw it, but I think if I did not shoot it the ghosts of all my ranching relatives would come and get me.


Even though I admire this awesome cat as the apex predator in our great state and there is not a whole lot of them, I would shoot one in a heartbeat where I am at for there is to much livestock and not enough for one of those bad boys and us hunters.

Now if I lived in the hill country where the deer are plentiful and no livestock consideration, I would let it go unless it was a huge old trophy cat up
Yeah, here in East Texas if I had one running around after my cows, I would hunt it down.

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My buddy hunts right on the Mason/Llano county line and he has seen a nice one out there. Beautiful country for one to run around in.


My current place is on the Gillespie/Llano County line west of Enchanted Rock. Horribly overpopulated with deer.

They had a big cat that stuck around for a couple weeks a few years back. Lot of people saw it, and then it vanished. Either moved on or made someone with a gun nervous. They run sheep out there, so I'm sure a big cat could pretty quickly wear its welcome thin.

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We run sheep and goats. Big cat = whole lot less sheep and goats.

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I have been trying to call one up in Montague county for years but I think it would take a miracle to ever see one. Awesome that you saw one, seems like it put on a show!


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Originally Posted By: gary roberson
How far north of Garvin Store? Lions frequent that area fairly often as there is an abundance of game and more that adequate cover. Near the West Kerr Ranch?
Adios,
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Just north of there, maybe 2-3 miles. Pretty sure around the Las Catarinas ranch. Looked when we came back hoping it hung up in the fence, but yeah right. Lol it was smooth moving getting up that fence.

It was awesome to see, but certainly wouldn't have complained if i could have taken it out and looked at it in my living room every day.

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there have been sightings in Bastrop county for 25yrs+, I have not seen, one ran across Watts lane in front of my wife.


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there have been sightings in Bastrop county for 25yrs+, I have not seen, one ran across Watts lane in front of my wife.


Ha. Same here.

I've always wanted to see one live. Never have. Seen one shortly after my grandfather killed it. Seen another one that attacked my great grandfather and was made into a throw rug. Spent countless hours and days out in West Texas and never seen one.

Then my wife saw one as she was coming back from my daughter's cross country meet just outside of Waco. I was still at the dang meet.

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Originally Posted By: TenTenWhitetails
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How far north of Garvin Store? Lions frequent that area fairly often as there is an abundance of game and more that adequate cover. Near the West Kerr Ranch?
Adios,
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Just north of there, maybe 2-3 miles. Pretty sure around the Las Catarinas ranch. Looked when we came back hoping it hung up in the fence, but yeah right. Lol it was smooth moving getting up that fence.

It was awesome to see, but certainly wouldn't have complained if i could have taken it out and looked at it in my living room every day.
Las Catarinas (where I hunt roflmao) is a little bit up the road from there...

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Yeah it was 4:45 in the morning, so I don't know the exact location, but right around in there.

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Thanks TenTenWhitetails. I am guessing that he/she was headed east?
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We were headed north and it was on West side of road, so not sure. Hopped up the left side fence.

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Back in the 90's in CA, there was a group of people working at the salt flats in the SF Bay area that scared one out of a fenced area. It was a six foot cyclone fence with another foot and a half of barbed wire above it. The news report said that the cat jumped the fence clean. It never touched it!!!!!

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Lion was headed west. Lions are just like all felines, they have that "quick twitch" muscling that will allow them to easily clear a 10 ft. fence. I have footage of a lion that jumped from one tree and climbed another nearby. This is why some dogs have trouble locating a lion that is treed...it leaps so high that there is not scent along the truck as a coon or other climbing animal would leave. Thanks again, TenTenWhitetails.
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I shot behind one in Nevada while hunting mule deer years ago to let him know I wasn't on the menu. He was on his belly watching me and I swear he jumped 6-8 ft straight up. rifle

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Saw one in Erath County about 12 years ago.Notified the state trapper,who had been looking for him,He never got him

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I would definitely need a change of britches if I saw one around here. I have heard rumors of them in Collin county and more frequent west of Ft worth. My grandpa swears on his life about black panther on his land on the Louisiana/Texas line

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Have you ever noticed how many people see black panthers, but not a single one has ever been found dead, on game camera or shot by a hunter? Going back forever?

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I've personally seen Mountain lions 4 different times in Western Bastrop County.


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Hey Vern,

I sent you a PM. We are having problems with one in Bastrop county.

Thanks

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We have a neighborhood watch Facebook page. We have a pack of dogs and a black panther roaming around. Three ladies have seen the panther.


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We have a neighborhood watch Facebook page. We have a pack of dogs and a black panther roaming around. Three ladies have seen the panther.


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I could have a lot of fun on one of those.....maybe we need to start one in our neighborhood.....


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We have a neighborhood watch Facebook page. We have a pack of dogs and a black panther roaming around. Three ladies have seen the panther.


peep

I could have a lot of fun on one of those.....maybe we need to start one in our neighborhood.....

yep, we have an app called Nextdoor Neighbor that is similar to a FB page ... one lady on there got to talking about wolves roaming our neighborhood ... roflmao


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Is Garvins store between Kerrville & Rocksprings?
Roughly, yes.

Very cool! Will need to keep my eyes open next time I'm out there! I hunt near Junction on 83 and near Rocksprings on 41. up


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We have a neighborhood watch Facebook page. We have a pack of dogs and a black panther roaming around. Three ladies have seen the panther.


peep

I could have a lot of fun on one of those.....maybe we need to start one in our neighborhood.....

yep, we have an app called Nextdoor Neighbor that is similar to a FB page ... one lady on there got to talking about wolves roaming our neighborhood ... roflmao


We have this same "Nextdoor" thing and we have women talking about the dangerous wolf sightings as well.

I live smack dab in the middle of Houston, Texas, by the way.

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We saw one a few miles south of the Garvin Store, west of 83... saw a bear too

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We saw one a few miles south of the Garvin Store, west of 83... saw a bear too


You saw a bear in that area??

Where and when? (And just one?)

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I saw a cougar at Northgate not too long ago...

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I saw a cougar at Northgate not too long ago...

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I live in far N.Dallas close to Plano. One of my wife's friend whose house backs up to a small creek with houses on both sides swear she has seen a mountain lion more than once roaming the creek and knows it is not a Bobcat. I think way to many drink7

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Yep no such creature as a Black Panther as mentioned never in the history of man has there been a picture or a kill or one hit by a car. There is one sure fire method to know if there is such a creature as a black panther or Sasquatch ...... look in a Cajun Cookbook. no recipes means it does not exist.


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Yep no such creature as a Black Panther as mentioned never in the history of man has there been a picture or a kill or one hit by a car. There is one sure fire method to know if there is such a creature as a black panther or Sasquatch ...... look in a Cajun Cookbook. no recipes means it does not exist.


There actually are black panthers. They're the melanic jaguars. There is no melanic phase of a cougar, which may be what you're thinking of, but jaguars are in the panthera genus and do exist as a black species. As do leopards, also a member of panthera.

There are no black panthers wild in Texas. There have never been outside of a zoo.

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One of the reasons it's so difficult to rely on personal witnesses is that so many see what they want to see. With zero, never ever happened, black panthers ever being found alive or dead, you know that people who claim to have seen one are either suffering from seeing what they want to see, or just dishonest. I tend to believe they believe in black panthers being out there, just like some believe Bigfoot is out there, and anything that they can use to support that belief clouds their judgement.

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Ive seen one outside of Perrin one day while I was out checking wells. I rounded a corner and it was in the dirt road. In a single leap it jumped nearly straight up an 8 foot embankment and was gone in a flash.

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Someone recently told me there is "a pair of mtn lions" in Springtown and to keep an eye on my dogs. Coming from PA where people have claimed to see them for decades but nobody ever has any proof, I was immediately skeptical. But doing some research I guess there have been confirmed sightings in Parker county before. Living in Texas has an adjustment, lots of new critters here to learn about smile .


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Yep no such creature as a Black Panther as mentioned never in the history of man has there been a picture or a kill or one hit by a car. There is one sure fire method to know if there is such a creature as a black panther or Sasquatch ...... look in a Cajun Cookbook. no recipes means it does not exist.


There actually are black panthers. They're the melanic jaguars. There is no melanic phase of a cougar, which may be what you're thinking of, but jaguars are in the panthera genus and do exist as a black species. As do leopards, also a member of panthera.

There are no black panthers wild in Texas. There have never been outside of a zoo.


Yes I am referring to cougar/ catamount/puma/mountain lion/panther and I knew there were malaniistic jaguars butI have never heard a Jaguar called a panther in the US.


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Headed down 83 today. I guess that I should haul old Pearl and see if she can rig on it when I get close to Garvin Store. LOL, she's cold nosed but that may be too much to ask.
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Verified daylight lion sighting by our land owner in western Llano co about a month ago. No livestock problems yet. Hope it has a taste for pigs though.

Another seen by my cousin between Voca and Brady a couple months ago. She said this one was dead on the road.

I've yet to see one, but have found tracks in the creek bottom. They're out there, but the territories are so huge it's a low-% deal.

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I think people believe they are black because they see them at dusk or later

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