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There was a cat killed in NE IIRC. It had been tagged and that was 700 miles from where it had been tagged !!
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You betcha, licensed professional hunters can use dogs to track down "offensive cougars" in Oregon. At the time the stupid law was passed the PETA idiots poured a lot of money in to passing the law. The used misleading footage of illegal hunting and managed to get the California style laws imported here.
As I recall we're experiencing exactly what the big game experts said would happen. Even the OR department of fish and game was against it... Now that it's law we're stuck with it and I don't see it ever being repealed. It's like with those stupid seals in the Columbia river. It will have to get much worse before it gets better. Tony |
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I wouldnt kill such a beautiful animal. Im no bunny hugger. I do love hunting and I go hog hunting twice a week. I do not have any respect towards anyone that is that ignorant and cruel to shoot any type of cat! I seen 4 bobcats and 2 mountain lions this year on my fathers 913 acre ranch in atascosa county,Texas. I love those cats and their more than welcome to enjoy the outdoors at our ranch. We are even thinking of putting up high game fence around our property to keep most of the animals in the area. Cats would most likely jump across of course,but I hope they would stay in. Have a nice Day!
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If one was in your neighborhood near your children, I think you would change your tune... Big cats turning up in town causes more school lock downs than anything else around here...
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I choose not to shoot whooping cranes, but would love to go on a LEGAL mountain lion hunt.
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June 14, 2011, 11:11 PM | #109 |
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I have yet to see a convincing photo. They all look altered. Mountain Lions don’t exist. I will simply dismiss all of this talk due to lack of credible evidence. Just another average house cat that got into a bag of miracle grow IMO. So do you guys believe in UFO’s here too?
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I owned a bunch of land in NYS. I’d see tracks that would come out circle my car and go back into my woods. I’d seen this several times. I know what cat prints are and these were the size of my hand.
NYSDEC said take a plaster cast because there’s nothing to reference the size of the tracks in photo we don’t send people out to chase house cats! Called NYSDEC again in spring, said presence of such an animal didn’t trouble me but I wanted them to be aware, so sent photo’s of the prints (in mud this time) along w/ pics of a pile of smaller deer skulls, all in one area. Officer sited my pistol permit questioned my integrity and basically made it out that I was a nut job. I pondered calling Albany and reporting him, but bit my tongue. In a stranger twist I was surfing HAM radio frequencies and came across a strong signal. I sat and listened, while a neighbor 2 miles away told a similar story to a third HAM ½ a World away! I keyed up and told him mine, too which he hit the ceiling! I guess the Cop pulled the same tactics with him, only he lost a few baby sheep! He was not happy and the DEC Cop was removed. However the DEC stills fails to admit there are lions in NYS!!! |
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Macjiasmort, sounds like you could kill the mountain lion and since they officially DO NOT EXIST AND YOU ARE A NUT JOB they could not arrest or fine you for killing an imaginary animal. Sounds like open season on kitty to me.
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lol@ NWpilgrim
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In Colorado Springs, population around 350,000, Mountain Lions kill deer in people's yards, and their dogs on their back deck! I have responded to some of these calls, then we had to post Warning signs about them around the area, which was dumb, then everyone called in every dog in the bush! I had to post up at a tree in the Broadmoor area, to keep a mountain lion up that tree, in my cruiser spotlight because the kids were out trick-or-treating.
They have also been reported chasing bouncing golf balls across the Broadmoor Golf Course! They can be a pain, but in most case do not attack humans, but they do in recent times more than ever before! This report is out of California, so my best guess is it may be softened up, but I cannot say that as fact. My own experiences in Colorado were a bit higher with at 4 that I personally remember ... not many, people are the worry in the wild, but enough to be careful in their turf! http://www.simitrailblazers.com/arti..._HUMANS-1.html
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WildBill45,
I'm with you on the story being softened up a bit. I also don't believe the guy that wrote the story for the CA rag has all the info straight. In one sentence he says 9 attacks resulted in 10 deaths, maybe he's using new math. I know for a fact there was a gentleman from St Joseph MO that was killed by a mountain lion while riding his bike in CA, he was in some type of bike race if I remember right. I don't remember the exact date but it was several years back. Best Regards Bob Hunter www.huntercustoms.com |
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Arizona has a very larger lion population.
http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_lion.shtml Campers/hikers here DO need to carry a large caliber, high power handgun while in the wild. Just a few miles outside Mesa, Az, (Four Peaks), the fish and game folks estimate an easy black bear per square mile. Up on the rim it's a higher number. There are many wild animal attacks (cougar and bear) in recent years as people have moved in to what used be wild land. I don't go camping expecting to kill a bear or cougar, but I DO go expecting to survive an attack if one were to occur!
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Here some interesting reading from Warner Glenn probably the #1 Lion Hunter in the USA,and generational rancher.. During a lion hunt he was guiding here in SE AZ in 1996.. Warner is the first to see and photograph a Jaguar on US soil. He wrote about it and presented stunning pictures in the book EYES OF FIRE His tracking mountain lion knowledge is amazing. He's a proponent of sport hunting lions for predator control, and protecting Jaguars. http://swjags.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/warner-glenn-qa/ More here also http://www.nowpublic.com/environment...-united-states Last edited by Steel Talon; July 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM. |
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You obviously don't make your living in the field of animal husbandry/agriculture. How about if we take a $500-1000 out of your annual salary every week or so ...... and tell you you have to find a gubmint agent (that is none too keen on helping you- they'll tell you there are no theives in this part of the country!)) to prove that it's being taken and then another gubmint agent to catch the thief or theives, without a gun..... eventually, the gubmint agent will rely on a gun to catch the thief...... Ranchers are practical DIY guys. They have good reason to deal with threats to their livelyhood as quiclyand efficiently as possible. |
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