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Thread: Mountain Lion sighting
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December 28th, 2014, 07:32 PM #11Junior Member
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
I have seen several bobcats throughout my life. I know what a bobcat looks like. And if you have ever seen a bobcat you will notice it has no tail (that little nub doesn't count). The cat I saw was only 75 yards away, that is not a great distance, and I assure you that it was no bobcat or house cat.
On another note Mountain Lions are here folks and the game commissions doesn't deny this. It was even on their website last year. It is no longer folklore, I wasn't trying to convince people they are here because it is fact. I was merely relaying the circumstances under which I saw mine.Last edited by Bassaro; December 28th, 2014 at 07:43 PM.
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December 28th, 2014, 08:09 PM #12Active Member
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
I saw one just north of Pittsburgh when I was a child.
This was no feral house cat, bobcat or dog. I remember that day very well.
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December 28th, 2014, 08:36 PM #13
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You can find a cougar in just about every bar in PRNJ
But seriously; I was sure I saw one(mountain lion) in North Jersey a couple of years ago, but got the same reaction from the game commission.
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December 28th, 2014, 08:56 PM #14
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I believe him. About 15 years ago a neighbor from a mile down the road saw one from his house. He called me because he knew I had hunted them and he wanted to show me the tracks in heavy mud. I looked at them and called Mike Beahm, the WCO in Lehigh county at the time, who I knew very well. Mike came out and made plaster castings of the tracks.
After they set up he brought the front right print into my house. That rock under the right front foot on the mount does not support anything. Actually the rock is screwed to the foot. We removed it so we could see the bottom of the foot and compare it to the casting. It was a perfect match but only about 3/4 size which would have been about right for a female or an immature male. Mine was a big boy, going into the Safari Club Archery Record Book. That's what the plaque is about.
He sent the castings into the commission and of course they couldn't determine what it was but it wasn't a cougar. There were a few other reports of sightings within about 50 miles but of course the PGC said it couldn't be.
The outfitter that I hunted that cat and several elk with said that it is very rare to see a cougar in the wild unless your chasing one with hounds and he trees, which is how I got this one. And for those who say shooting a treed cat is no sport, well you haven't done it, at least not in the Rockies of MT.
The older I get, the better I used to be.
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December 28th, 2014, 09:06 PM #15
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Illinois has had about 1/2 dz. verified sightings and 3 killed since early 2007. The dna on all have traced them back to the Dakotas. One got hit by a train down south, one was killed around chicago and I believe the other was up by Rockford. It has taken the state 25yrs. to admit that they were here even after the pictures were all over the net.
The all were young males looking for territory and mates. We do not have Cougars or Wolves but it is illegal to hunt them.Courage is being scared to death--but saddling up any way. John Wayne
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December 28th, 2014, 09:19 PM #16
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We have a member from the Sterling Historical Society that has one on trail camera.
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December 28th, 2014, 09:41 PM #17Grand Member
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
I've heard a bazillion cougar stories here in PA but again unlike other states that have evidence, no one has yet to dig up a verifiable photo taken here in PA, tree scratchings, prints, scat with a DNA match, dead kills, dead cougars on the road, etc.
Could there be the odd released pet or male that ranges out into the state? It's possible but yet unproven.
There are a couple of organizations out there that roam through the evidence and have found nothing. The Eastern Cougar Foundation has renamed itself after spending tons of time chasing the fairytale.
If cougars really existed here in PA, we would know. People will continue to persist with the stories but no one ever has any evidence.
What people see are feral cats and they misjudge the distance they see them at. I've made the same mistake myself out west and only after a second look realize it's a house cat.
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December 28th, 2014, 09:48 PM #18
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December 28th, 2014, 09:57 PM #19Banned
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
Just show me the fresh lion shit. All I want to see is the shit. Show me the shit. All creatures shit. Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit. I just want to see it, smell it, touch it, and smear my face in it. Then maybe......just maybe....I will believe.
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December 29th, 2014, 01:30 PM #20
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When someone takes a picture of a Mountain lion in Pa and can then take me to the exact spot where the picture was taken I will believe that they are here. Until then I have about as much faith in mountain lion sightings as I do in bigfoot sightings.
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