Monster quest did an entire show on the existence of black panthers/mt lions and every case that had video or photographic evidence proved to be a black house cat. The problem is at range, people's depth perception is off and believe the cat is much larger than normal. Scientists also claim that there is no confirmed existence of melanistic mt lion ever being born in captivity or even the genetic anomaly for one to exist. My conclusion, they don't exist. Stay in the woods long enough and your eyes will fool you.

maybe you choose not to? Polor and grizzly bears don't cross but they do, in the coarse of a year 4 different species of lizard were discovered in California, a new subspecies of white tail, new frog in central park,freshwater shark in Australia that gets at least 6', two new large predators in south America with a possible third that's not been classified yet, wolves in Missouri - who's to say you're better at finding theses things than anyone else?

You just made everyone's point.

We find their half eaten body.

Or their skeleton.

Or their sheds.

Or their body dead on the road.

There is literally zero evidence of black panthers. They don't get hit by cars. They don't die of natural causes apparently. The magically evade each of the 2000000 game cameras in the Texas woods.

They don't exist here. They never have. They're no different than bigfoot.

If you have never in your life seen something that you can not explain while you are out in the woods, then you have not been in the woods enough.

did someone say black panthers?

http://gonzalescannon.com/2014/02/13/be-aware-hunters-big-cats-arent-alien-to-these-parts/

I think this one just got published in this weeks local paper.

So what does that mean exactly? That if you haven't seen a black panther you are not an experienced woodsman? Oh, OK.

I have been in the woods plenty. I have seen things I can't explain. But I simply say I saw something I can't explain. I don't call them black panthers, Bigfoot, Chupas, or the Blair Witch.

Lordy, IDK why I am on here.....

Blahahahahahaha

No I didn't say that at all but it proves my point. We all have seen somethin we can not explain so how can we dismiss someone else's claim of what they saw.

You learn a lot about people on these threads.....

Meh....

Meh...

El Cuppa Stinkin Cabbra has returned!

I sure wish we had cell phones with camera's back in the 80's like we do today. I bet I caught a half dozen wild black cats that look pretty big. I remember one we caught in a snare at the barn that my dad had the back legs up to his chest and the front legs were on the ground (my dad is 5' 10").

How would you know the skeleton of a large cat was a black cat...or that it wasn't

Just look at his sheds,

And there you have it

Where is Colt 45?
Colt, if you aint too busy playin laser tag tonight.......
Can you cifer up for us how many acres Texas is and also come up with a number of how many game cameras there are based on the total number of licences sales at 3 cameras per licence?
I would do it, but the Novocaine wore off about 3 hours ago and I been up ince 2am.

With all these black panther sightings, why isn't there a season for them? By all accounts I hear about, there are more black panthers than 180" low fence deer.

I darn sure don't want these black panthers mating with my pink unicorns....

I posted proof, and still non-believers...unbelievable

About 1.5 million licenses
4.5 million cameras
Camera covers approx 1 acre
About 168 million acres in texas
163.5 million acres not covered by cameras in Texas...

Can't write like colt, but he would say:


yep gonna make a pappy sammich and cuz they was and I was but no one was hurt. As pappy always said grab a pander by da tale and you gonna get bit

I am postaddic

Txhtr --- I myself have proof I believe that they are in STX. The local GW even came when my family called. They stated that the other people in the area had seen the same cat on camera and dead animals from it.

TheGW said the Wild Fires had possibly run them to there area. Since it was a heavy wooded area and semi rocky.

Cause nobody makes a Kitty Chow feeder to lure them in.

I am not questioning your evidence...well, yes I am...but do you have any other game pics from that same set up that shows another animal for reference on size? From the structure of that cat, it looks like a big Tom, but still a house cat.

I assume you are talking about the picture that you posted earlier in this thread.

I actually wouldn't be as surprised as most on this forum if one was shot. A little different than a BF in my opion, simply because there are big black cats known in the world and some even in Texas. Though there is absolutely no proof of a black mountain lion or panther, there are large black cats like the jaguar that were considered native to Texas at one time. Also, black bobcats and jaguarandi have been captured and seen.