I've yet to see one in the wild

I have. Twice. Both times in Oklahoma. Once on the tall grass prairie up north of Pawhuska and once near Tenkiller Lake on Corp of Engineers land

Blanco county in 2014.

Had a deer lease for 1year a few miles west of Strawn. Very hilly area lots of oaks . Had one on my game cam several times . Funny thing was we never saw a deer on that place and hunted hard . It was a very large ranch . That’s been probably 17 or 18 years ago . He was just a normal mountain lion.

I have only seen one while bighorn sheep hunting in CO. I had a lion tag and was so flustered I wiffed an easy 200 yard shot. Two days later I killed my ram...at 200 yards. Go figure!

When I was 14 I saw one running down a fence line we had come out to repair. Nobody believed me. Saw a big thick tom cross the road in front of me last year and had 2 witnesses with me this time. Both sightings were on the edge of hagerman wildlife refuge.

I've seen 4 mountain lions in the wild and 1 large black cat with white spots hit on the side of 812 just West of 21 in CenTex in my lifetime with first sighting in 1966.
The one I called up close enough to identify in mid 80's ended my solo nighttime varmint calling career....

Texas Parks and Wildlife knows of WAY more sightings than they will admit and tend to laugh it off nervously.
TPW turned a female loose from a live trap caught by a neighbor when he had chickens disappearing from his coop in the Piney Woods.
She had kittens in the edge of the brush around the coop so TPW turned her loose.
Neighbor said that's the last time he will call TPW to handle anything like that.

TP&W does not hide verified sightings. TP&W biologist will investigate if the sighting has any credibility. They actually have a live time map of all confirmed sightings.
I think someone lied to you about TP&W trapping one and letting it go. There isn't a breeding population in east Texas. The few confirmed sightings in north and east Texas are all dispersing males

I haven’t seen one in person, but I have seen Bigfoot hunting one with a crossbow inside a high fence.

Seen 3 around Nocona. One crossing the road behind the lake at the spillway and another 8 miles or so west on Hwy 82. A group of us saw a black cat northwest of Nocona a few years ago. It was about the size of a large bobcat but with a tail. None of us could say for sure what it was.

Saw one in the Waco city limits in 1991, jumping out of the dumpster in my apartment complex on the far northwest side of town on the edge of a wooded area. I was throwing away garbage after dark and it jumped out up on top of the dumpster as I walked up to it. We were face to face just a few feet apart for a quick moment and then it was gone. I called the Waco TPWD office the next day to report it and all they said was "yep.... we had several reports." Around that time there was a picture published in the newspaper of a mountain lion sitting calm like a house cat on the edge of a Waco golf course at the woodline watching golfers. Like it was looking at the menu for dinner.

Once in the early 2000s at a property by Preston Rd and Westgrove Dr. The home owners took dozens of pictures and Dallas game wardens got pretty excited and showed up in person to check things out. The property backs up to white rock creek and I believe that animals use creek beds as highways to travel unseen and safely.

Saw this one on Tuesday morning, spouse called him in for me.
He didn't get a walk.
105 lb male, probably 2 yr old tom.

Never seen one, but seen there paw prints many times. It wakes you up when you see the paw print that is as big as your fist in the dark while going to the blind. I think I have seen there silhouette a few times. Once flanking me while walking to a blind. Just can't say for sure that is what it was. So I won't say that I have seen one.

Very cool, Wytex!

I've seen one two times in Fannin County. Both time crossing my field while I was working my bee hives. Called the game warden who ran cows next to me and he said " not again " when ii told him it was heading towards his property

So I'm assuming TP&W investigated and found it wasn't a Mt lion

Lol

Don't know. I have seen bobcats in the yard before but this was easily 5 times larger. There were multiple paw prints that I could cover with my hand and I wear a 3x glove. They were much larger than my dogs prints and the bobcats prints that I frequently see on the property. It jumped right to the top of an 8-ft tall chain link fence that was surrounding the tennis courts on the property as it was leaving.

I was curious because TP&W keeps track of confirmed sightings. If the GW found evidence then the biologist would have came out and confirmed it. The only confirmed Mt lion even close to there was the Rowlett cat a few years ago

I`ve seen 2 in my lifetime. One was in Erath County 30 years ago and the other was near Cloudcroft NM. Both times I only seen them for a second or less. The first one was in Erath County (Bluff Dale area) and I though a dog had run across the road but then I realized that wasn`t no FN dog, it was a mountain lion. I was in the Mountain Lakes development and only driving around 10 mph. It was long, low to the ground and had a very long and straight tail (100 yards away). The one in NM was about 200 yards away and I barely saw it as it ran into some cedar trees and disappeared. The dead giveaway for it was the very long tail as well. I wasn`t 100% sure it was a mountain lion, but there is nothing else it could be that looked like it did with a very long tail. I`d take my oath on it.

I had dropped of a load of cattle off out side of granbury at bout 2am and one I saw in erath was also just south of bluff dale when it crossed the road. think that was late 90’s

I swear my dad and I saw one near Clyde lake about 25 years ago.

Just a track I saw on my property in NC. Notice there are no claw marks??
Ideas of what it is??? I think cat.

Looks like a black bear track to me.