Mountain Lion In Taney Co. (Branson)

[Chief Grey Bear]

My question is, has this been happening for longer and more often than we think?? Before the mid to late 90's, sightings were pretty rare. But since then and the advent of trail cams, reported and confirmed sightings have skyrocketed.

[ness]

My question is, has this been happening for longer and more often than we think?? Before the mid to late 90's, sightings were pretty rare. But since then and the advent of trail cams, reported and confirmed sightings have skyrocketed.

That's a good point/question.

[Al Agnew]

Yep, gotta wonder about that. Mountain lion sightings have always been pretty regular in the Ozarks, but as long as it was just some nimrod out wandering around in the woods telling about seeing one, hardly anybody believed him. Now, there's that photographic proof. Speaking of nimrods, though, a couple weeks ago a guy my brother in law works with got permission to bowhunt a place near Ironton that he'd never been to before. He called my BIL from his tree stand just before dark and said that he was afraid to get down out of it because he'd seen a mountain lion. Of course, he finally got up the nerve to head back to his car, but he said he wasn't going back.

[ness]

Geez. At least he didn't shoot the poor thing.

[ruthead]

We've had em up here in NoMo in the past. My son saw one about 8 yrars ago. Know farmers who saw em and another farmer with calves killed byem.

Brian, don't worry about em, they don't like to swim. Just stay in the water fishin and they'll eventually leave. Oh yea, you should be sleepin at 4 a.m.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I lived in their territory for 13 years. saw tracks twice, after a rain, but never a cat. They like venison and s long as there's an abundance of them in the Ozarks they will most likely go unnoticed.

[Smalliebigs]

Yep, gotta wonder about that. Mountain lion sightings have always been pretty regular in the Ozarks, but as long as it was just some nimrod out wandering around in the woods telling about seeing one, hardly anybody believed him. Now, there's that photographic proof. Speaking of nimrods, though, a couple weeks ago a guy my brother in law works with got permission to bowhunt a place near Ironton that he'd never been to before. He called my BIL from his tree stand just before dark and said that he was afraid to get down out of it because he'd seen a mountain lion. Of course, he finally got up the nerve to head back to his car, but he said he wasn't going back.

and I was ridiculed on here for saying we hear Cougars regularly howling and screeching in our large pasture at our farm off of HWY A behind Bell mountain Wilderness area......lol I can sympathize with that guy, they are a bit spooky when you see them in person.

[Greasy B]

What's really cool about these anImals is just how elusive they are. It's incredible to think that a cat that big can wonder anywhere in the ozarks for long and not be shot by a resident. In comparison a cat wondering from south Dakota to Connecticut unharmed would be a cake walk.

[fishinwrench]

I'm not sure which owl or hawk it is, but one of them makes a noise (sometimes) that sounds exactly like a cougar scream off in the distance.

[Feathers and Fins]

Saw Phil's post first but ill post MOP here as well

Ive got some serious question about that picture. 1st is there is a Yard Light in the pic, second it was taken by a hunting cam so why would someone have a game cam focused down at a yard light. When every cam ive ever put out or used or for that matter seen is pointed at a forward angle toward a food plot or feeder. Something seems fishy about that picture.