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Mountain lion stalk…ing us…

kyler1945

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This was several days before I killed my bull. The lady’s phone was off and in her pocket. I had a good minute of this thing stalking us before she got her phone on and videoing. Mine was a few feet away, with my unloaded sidearm. I didn’t want to spook it. Plus I can run faster than her.

I cow called to see if I could get some action in a new drainage. I got the action…

 
Was it completely silent or did you get to hear it making any sounds? We had one stalking us and tried scare us to leaving my buddies buck behind it was making this low pitched growling sound almost sounded like a car driving on gravel but deep pitched if that makes any sense.


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Was it completely silent or did you get to hear it making any sounds? We had one stalking us and tried scare us to leaving my buddies buck behind it was making this low pitched growling sound almost sounded like a car driving on gravel but deep pitched if that makes any sense.


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no sound. Pure luck I looked that way. I was trained on what I was certain was elk out in front of us. Could easily have never looked and it could’ve closed to 15-20 yards before hitting my periphery. My very fuzzy periphery due to the tunnel vision on the elk opportunity potentially unfolding in front of me.
 
That's spooky, not a lot in the woods puts sheer terror into me like a cougar. Those things are killers
 
Just not understanding the unloaded sidearm and it being a few feet away part.

But if you're the faster than her...
 
Just not understanding the unloaded sidearm and it being a few feet away part.

But if you're the faster than her...

From my elk post… Oh, I was firmly in the "don't carry a gun for lions or bears while bow hunting." I was stalked by a mountain lion, and had an inside 20 yard encounter with a huffing teeth snapping black bear. I have my sidearm on me, loaded, and have a plan. I am firmly in the doomsday prepper category when it comes to these critters now. I'm guilty of overreacting and I'm ok with that.

I carry out there for people, and unleashed dogs. We were miles from either. Well, I did carry for those reasons. Now I carry, really carry, for pointy teeth critters. Overreaction? Probably. But you haven’t been hunted haha. I have!
 
Cougars walk through town here.they are always around .you can here them chirp like birds to locate eachother.i had 4 of them walk under me in dry leavs and didn't hear a footstep.
 
From my elk post… Oh, I was firmly in the "don't carry a gun for lions or bears while bow hunting." I was stalked by a mountain lion, and had an inside 20 yard encounter with a huffing teeth snapping black bear. I have my sidearm on me, loaded, and have a plan. I am firmly in the doomsday prepper category when it comes to these critters now. I'm guilty of overreacting and I'm ok with that.

I carry out there for people, and unleashed dogs. We were miles from either. Well, I did carry for those reasons. Now I carry, really carry, for pointy teeth critters. Overreaction? Probably. But you haven’t been hunted haha. I have!
After living in Colorado for couple years I highly suggest a sidearm and bear spray for 4 legged and 2 legged stuff in the woods
 
I wanna laugh at @kyler1945, but I got to thinking and remembered a morning where that crap wasn't funny.

I was hunting on Little River at the Monroe/Baldwin line. Not far from Florida and in a very rural area. That river is a very nice little blackwater river that runs through sandy pines, very different from the usually muddy hardwood creeks I hunt. There were lots of sandbars and in one bend there was a great little crossing where the deer would leave a private ag field and cross knee deep water to get to a large tract of young row pines that were just old enough to keep sunlight from hitting the ground.

Part of my route took me across a couple of hundred yard long sandbar. I always would scope the sand out for tracks with my headlamp on the way in. I would walk in early, climb 30ft up in a climber that stayed on the tree, and be able too peer down into some tall grass and brambles the deer would "stage" in, listening and watching for several minutes while building up the courage to dash across the sandbars and water.

Anyway, I got the the tree an hour or two before light, settled in, and hunted til about 10am. Climbed down and started walking back to meet my dad at the truck. While walking back across the big sandbar I saw BIG, round tracks laid out in a perfect line in the sand without a single claw mark. They were within 5-6 feet of my boot prints my first thought was, "Those weren't there this morning."

I generally disregard accounts of big cats in Alabama. Looking back i wonder if it could have just been a big bobcat. But in that moment every hair on my body stood up and I became much less excited about the half mile of brush I had to bust through back to the truck. The possibility of a large, obligate carnivore in that underbrush with me was not pleasant
 
Over and over you will see fresh crap in your boot prints on the way down the hill .every time the tracks come off steep inbankments over the road and you know you walked under them earlier .it's creepy
 
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