!!!! I SAW A PANTHER TODAY WHILE HUNTING DEER !!!!
Theres story's of wild panthers in the bush around SE south Australia and you'd like to believe it but reason wipes it from your mind. Well its true & scary as.
So me & mate (tomo) go deer hunting once every 3 months and help out the local farmers, deer over here is consider a pest, shit loads of them and i mean shit loads 5 species of deer and no bag limits.
We pack up the gear and get going. 5 hours later we arrive, we chat to landowner about whats what and he said his got problems with Rabbits, Hares, Foxes, wild dogs, cats and deer.
We setup our camp site, sight in the rifles and get going before sun down.
On our litte hike we bagged 7 rabbits and 1 hare.
Its now dark enough for spotlighting the buggers, we nail 26 rabbits, 6 foxes and 2 cats.
Today we built our blind in the tree line on this high point , we wait and we wait. A mob deer mosey on down this open ridge and start feeding etc.
As we're deciding what one to take, this black shape is slowly moving the ridge and tomo says......is that a cat and grab the spotting scope and I'm like....yep bloody cat's gonna spook our deer.
Tomo's got the rifle out and in stead of taking shot he's using the rifle to look at the cat and he says....Oi MATE THATS NO TABBY, THATS A FUCKING ahh BIG FUCKING CAT and i said aww yeah. So i grab the rifle to get a closer look and it becomes apparent that cat isn't the right size to the fence post.
The penny drops...OMG...I try to chamber a round, my hearts going a thousand miles an hour.
Tomo says....AWWWW LOOK AT THIS QUICK and the deer bolt then the PANTHER is running after the deer (like on national geographic ).
It and the deer disappeared over the hill. Were like whoa....SHIT THATS A REAL FUCKING PANTHER YEAH....Then the whole fear thing kicks in and we make our way back to camp.
We decided to leave but on our way the dropped in on the farmer and we're like.....MAN YOU"VE GOT A BIG FUCKING PANTHER OUT THERE and thanks for letting us hunt.
The farmer looked at us and said you boys must seeing things but still thanks for the help.
Im now home safe n sound and we're never going to back there again....FUCK THAT SHIT.....Thats something to tell the grandkids
Talk about the hunter being the hunted...
Also i googled big cat in Oz and theres a whole heap stuff wow.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4HuwjvKKct...an+panther.jpg
http://www.hillsnews.com.au/multimed...ull/377185.jpg
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzool...ams%20blog.jpg
Also big damm pigs too
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200906/r379721_1768428.jpg
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Are they indigenous to aus?
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jcabin
Are they indigenous to aus?
NO, they came with the circus and you yanks during WW2 lol (FACT)
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can you shoot the panther? sounds scary.
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dunsho
can you shoot the panther? sounds scary.
Yeah theres no law against it, I tryed but it all happend so fast.
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boy that would be awesome to nail one of those...If I did Id totally wear its pelt and make a necklace out of its teeth.
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Nothing to be particularly afraid of if you weren't alone... big cats, while they occasionally hunt humans, will only do so if they are alone and oblivious. They steer clear of any groups of humans because they know how dangerous we can be; their only chance of survival is to get the drop against a lone person.
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your a good story teller with the accent. you should go back and kill that thing. must be a god damn turkey shoot over there, we have alot of deer over here too, but theres seasons.
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That's awesome. People here in Pennsylvania see things that aren't there too!
:D :p
I read that, then read it again "hearing" the Aussie accent. MUCH better that way!
LOL
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Congratulations! I saw one in south Arkansas when I was about 15 years old up close and personal as it scared the heck out of me. It was laying on a low hanging branch when it let out a scream from about ten feet away just before dawn. They are beautiful animals.