Can you see it?

atrox · Member Joined: Jun 05, 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Tucson, AZ

I have always heard that mountain lion meat is really good. i will try to get ahold of the picture of one that my cousin shot up in montana. It was stalking his daughter, who is 10yrs old. The thing was huge.

TRBLSHTR · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Out here in oregon we hunt them about 10 months out of the year legally,and if they are causing livestock damage they can be destroyed the other 2 months.We are unfortunate enough to have a bunch of greenie-leaf lickers that mandated no more hunting of cougars or bears with dogs.As a result of that little save the earth moratorium we have cougars showing up in the cities-big and small,eating smaller kitties and small dogs,attacking hikers and fishermen,even trying to get into gradeschools when the children are in class.Let alone the problems that they create in the rural areas with livestock.I still remember when a local policeman shot one out of a low fir tree in a backyard in an urban area after it tried getting into a grade school-it was about 3 years old and in fine physical shape.They just have learned not to fear man as much now that they can't be hunted with dogs,and their population has exploded here!

atrox · Member Joined: Jun 05, 2008 Posts: 46 Location: Tucson, AZ

Its the same here in AZ. You can buy OTC tags for them and they are starting to come off the mountains and into the city.

OntheLasGallinas · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Mountain lion meat! Hell, a buzzard won't even eat a cat.

Cary

rdncktink · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

I found the head right off. But thought it was in a cave until I looked for like the 10th time.

And I have no idea how CA can say they've counted anything when they think it's a good idea to cut school funding and put polished glass in the median on the freeway.

gelandangan · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Lion?
you mean that tiny skinny putty tat at the bottom of the picture is a lion??

Bushmaster · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Cougar, panther, puma, mountain lion...Yeh gelandangan, that's a lion...North American/South American style...They can be pretty good sized sometimes...

gelandangan · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Yeh.. I saw Vince's post on
www.huntingnut.com/ind...pic&t=4162

err.. miao...

DallanC · Site Admin Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah

We had a monster sized cat try and take down a full sized horse once. Didnt kill it but it ruined the horse, raked and sliced down the neck and sides.

-DallanC

Vince · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

DallanC wrote:

We had a monster sized cat try and take down a full sized horse once. Didnt kill it but it ruined the horse, raked and sliced down the neck and sides.

-DallanC

OUCH.........not good. Mad

Cheers, Vince

OntheLasGallinas · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 1:40 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

I've had them scratch up grown cows, but these half Brahma, 1,600 pound cows were a little too feisty. It could have been a young one, though.

Cary

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Someone told me that lion meat taste like cat piss...

On the TV show "Monster Quest" they ran an episode about "The Beast of Bladenboro (NC)" in the '50s and similar attacks on animals around Bolivia, NC last year. I gather livestock and dogs were being killed. Someone snapped a photo with a phone camera that appears to be a cougar.

Bladenboro is in eastern NC, about 60 miles NW of Wilmington while Bolivia is about 15 miles SW of Wilmington. There appear to be some large swampy areas there. Possibly a remnant of the eastern cougar or one that was released?

codybrown · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Michigan DNR finally admitted that we have them here....I'm not convinced that we ever had them leave.

Vince · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

Punkin wrote:

Someone told me that lion meat taste like cat piss...

Now here's a question for ya....how would anybody know what cat's p1$$ tastes like? Just a thought.

The Asians eat a lot of cat, and dog, so I suppose the meat would be edible....don't think I would fancy it though.

Cheers, Vince

d_hoffman · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:29 am Post subject: Re: Can you see it?

And you know Vince, I don't think that I'll be the voluteer to find that one out... Yuck