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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: RMR]
#1119367
12/21/09 01:58 PM
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longhorn_cop
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Hunted around Sierra Alto just east of El Paso past Hueco Tanks over Mule Deer season. Fellow lease hunters saw a mountain lion up on one of the mountains. Took several shots at him and hiked up to look for him. Did not find anything though. Several cats have been trapped on the ranch in the past 10 years and they have a full mounted one in the ranch bunk house.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: longhorn_cop]
#1120707
12/22/09 02:10 AM
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wtexaswave
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Midland County, seen multiple times this year sitting in the larger mesquite trees next to the tank swatting doves that land in the tree.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: wtexaswave]
#1120749
12/22/09 02:28 AM
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rattlesnake
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Saw one this past Friday in LiveOak County on the road by our house. It has been seem many times in the same area by many people. Since the sighting we have not seen a deer at the feeders and im carrying a pistol to the stand with me.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: rattlesnake]
#1121456
12/22/09 02:36 PM
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GWS147
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I saw one while I was quail hunting on the Kaufman/ Van Zandt county line.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: GWS147]
#1121952
12/22/09 05:30 PM
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Txduckman
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I saw one while I was quail hunting on the Kaufman/ Van Zandt county line. I believe that. Probably more lions than quail in that area. lol.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: Txduckman]
#1122465
12/22/09 09:07 PM
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jbishop_243
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I saw one on the Baird Lake rd in Callahan co. early 90's, it was in the middle of the road. Had to stop for it as it just walked to the fence and hopped it like a deer. It never ran just looked back at me and walked away! A few years later I was driving behind a guy a was hunting with on the way to the ranch, he swerved off the road to miss one he said, but I did not see it for myself. But it was right at the south city limit sign of Lawn Tx in Taylor co.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: mulie_mike]
#1123220
12/23/09 02:52 AM
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HiBanks
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add McLennan county to the list
"Sometimes the fire hydrant sometimes the dog."
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: HiBanks]
#1129336
12/26/09 03:29 PM
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doohickee
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I saw one at my lease in northwest Llano county around Pontatoc about 3 weeks ago. hunters next door saw it 2 days ago.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: doohickee]
#1129633
12/26/09 08:39 PM
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700X
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We had them on the lease between fredericksburg and Junction.We had them Just North of Coleman in 2001.We had them in Sanderson,and we had them in Marathon.The one Cat just North of Coleman was a fact -yet we had no way to prove it.At that time we had a lease with JB Smith Ranch.We told him and he just lokked at us kinda funny..LOL we told the local game warden and he pretty much did the same.About 4 years later a guy killed one while hunting..Guess we were right after all.I think there are alot more around than any of us really know.
IT'S NOT THE GUN - IT'S THE PERSON BEHIND THE GUN!
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: 700X]
#1130479
12/27/09 05:47 AM
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Halfadozen
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Callahan County - 2002. Ranchers wife saw it killing calves - i thought - yeah right. Then I saw it eating a gut pile from a buck we had shot earlier in the day.
Freedom is a fragile thing ...Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again. -- Ronald Reagan
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: Freer Hunter 72]
#1139555
12/31/09 05:39 AM
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toolman
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I've never actually laid eyes on one, but I've seen tracks that were an easy 3-4" across in Fisher Co. My BIL discounted these tracks as the neighbors' dogs, but we never see them on our property.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: toolman]
#1139578
12/31/09 05:53 AM
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bassinger
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there is an almost surefire way to tell....
a dogs outside toes will be even with each other...
the mountain lion will be undoubtedly uneven.. like one further forward than the other
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: Txduckman]
#1139653
12/31/09 08:44 AM
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Driller
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I saw one while I was quail hunting on the Kaufman/ Van Zandt county line. I believe that. Probably more lions than quail in that area. lol. The quail have been gone for yrs
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: RMR]
#1152701
01/06/10 02:56 PM
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Cheri
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I saw one last night. I thought I was crazy but something has been eating my chickens...one per night before I go shut them up at night and I decided to sit out there with a .22 and shoot what I assumed was a coyote and it ended up being what looked like a cougar to me. I came online to look around and see if anyone else had seen one in or near Waller recently because I was not aware they were this far east. Maybe I'm not crazy. I saw a long tail and it was a buff color like my dog. It walked right into the light of the flashlight I had pointed out into the yard not 30 feet from me. Maybe I'm crazy but I know what I saw.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: Cheri]
#1152735
01/06/10 03:10 PM
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wesleyc
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Several in Haskell, Throckmorton,Shackelford,Jones counties years ago, and recently in Reagan,Crockett,Terrell, and Pecos county.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: wesleyc]
#1153218
01/06/10 06:46 PM
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Stump_jumper
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I know a person that owns 1250 acres that is just off 377 south of the Colo. river on the San Saba / McCullogh conty line. One night a govt. trapper called and asked permission to continue tracking a big cat on to their property. About a year later my brother seen one in the ranch road while on a 4 wheeler. I shot a doe late one evening and trailed it across a creek for about 100 yards. It got to dark and I had no fashlight. Since it was cold I figured I would go back in the morning. I found it really quickly and it was in a muddy spot covered with leaves and twigs and there tracks bigger than my palm. This was the second wounded deer I had found covered on this ranch. They are out there.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: Stump_jumper]
#1153267
01/06/10 07:10 PM
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MathewsBowMan
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A friend of mine saw one with a cub this summer in Wheeler County. I've heard of a few other sightings in Wheeler county but this guy I really believe.
BOOMER SOONER
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: MathewsBowMan]
#1153272
01/06/10 07:11 PM
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chargercody
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1 in Blanco County near J.C. 2 in Edwards County near Vance.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: chargercody]
#1159004
01/08/10 10:15 PM
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sthtxhunter
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we see em quite regularly in edwards and real county as well as mexican brown bears that are seen at least once a yr....everybody was kinda always iffy abouthe whole bear thing until one came out in the rocksprings paper caught on the good ole game cam
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler,1935
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: J.G.]
#1159020
01/08/10 10:27 PM
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sthtxhunter
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my greatuncle was a govt trapper outta rocksprings and killed one when i was about 10....this thing was huge i think 7 foot from head to tail....they had it mounted lifesize mount...susposedly it was so big that our taxidermist in camp wood (Pickaloo) had to get a baby elk mannican and cut it down....and if noone believes me i have proof of it and im surer some of you may have seen it cause its in the bank in Rocksprings Tx
"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolf Hitler,1935
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: sthtxhunter]
#1959832
12/28/10 09:57 PM
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jneal
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one sighting east of ransom canyon,lubbock co. in yellowhouse canyon
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: jneal]
#1959853
12/28/10 10:06 PM
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Quick Shoot Again
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My wife and I saw one last season on our lease south of Post off the Gail Hwy.
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: mulie_mike]
#1959861
12/28/10 10:11 PM
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obryankl
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: obryankl]
#1960144
12/28/10 11:32 PM
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dee
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"A vote is like a rifle; it's usefulness depends on the character of the user" Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Mountain Lion Sightings......
[Re: dee]
#1961365
12/29/10 06:16 AM
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JDowns
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