Mountain Lion shot during deer season

[BilletHead]

20 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I like nature as it comes.  Being in country where there are big predators never really bothered me.  Even when we were fishing the outlet of a high lake in Wyoming and I came across a pile of grizzly scat.  Just kept fishing and didn't even die during the attack that never came.

         Rick,

   How could you tell it was grizzly?  Smell or taste test. Size of pile or did it have some of those little pin on bells that are sold to tourists and hikers in grizzly country? Asking for a friend thanks. 

[Quillback]

31 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I like nature as it comes.  Being in country where there are big predators never really bothered me.  Even when we were fishing the outlet of a high lake in Wyoming and I came across a pile of grizzly scat.  Just kept fishing and didn't even die during the attack that never came.

Next time you see Phil ask him about the brown bears in Alaska.  

[Terrierman]

2 hours ago, BilletHead said:

         Rick,

   How could you tell it was grizzly?  Smell or taste test. Size of pile or did it have some of those little pin on bells that are sold to tourists and hikers in grizzly country? Asking for a friend thanks. 

Size and the smell of pepper spray.

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, Flysmallie said:

That is hilarious, or stupid, can't decide on which one. 

I guess I should have said.....A known predator of anything with flesh on it.   😅

[Maverickpro201]

16 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

Just about every single mountain lion attack in recent years has been in places with a long thriving lion population where human development is encroaching upon them, disrupting their food supplies and movements.  In Missouri it would be just the opposite.  I spend a whole lot of time in places where there are definitely mountain lions, and have never once worried about being attacked.  I'm pretty sure I've had lions following me and watching me; I've hiked into an area, and coming back out found lion tracks superimposed on my own tracks.  In those places, there are also wolves, black bears, and grizzlies.  On a scale of relative danger, I'd put wolves last, lions next to last, and black bears a very distant second to grizzlies.  I've seen all in the wild and up fairly close, but the most danger I was ever in was with a cow moose when I accidentally got between her and her calf.

I think I know a member or two of the family that shot this one.  I won't comment on them.  But if he shot it between the shoulders and there's a big hole in its chest, it was still facing away from them.  

I agree with the last 2 sentences

[Maverickpro201]

This can be really BAD MOJO right here. Shooting a cougar for the sport.

Those kind folks in Iron County are some of the worst also. Never had any use for that county. They are for most part a different breed or bred differently than other folks.

[fishinwrench]

This guy here should be allowed to live and breed too I suppose.

[snagged in outlet 3]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

 

This guy here should be allowed to live and breed too I suppose.

 

No.  Bug assault his @$$!

[fishinwrench]

40 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

No.  Bug assault his @$$!

I installed a laser sight on that bad boy 👍 

And I grind up my own ammo.  I can smoke a cicada from 4 feet away !   😀

[jdmidwest]

14 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I installed a laser sight on that bad boy 👍 

And I grind up my own ammo.  I can smoke a cicada from 4 feet away !   😀

Too bad you have to wait for next hatch in 17 years