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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2009, 05:20:35 PM »
whats scarry is this was less then 1000 yds away from a major hwy( hwy 50, I'm sure you have heard it) and about 700 yds from several cabins.

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I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #21 on: May 25, 2009, 05:42:05 PM »
My encounter was within 500 feet of my house and on the freeway.  The good thing about N. California in 1977-79, no one would give a second look to someone carrying a sidearm openly.  Never had a license, nor did I need one...

The big guy was just going hunting down on the Eel River, I could hear him in the brush as I continued on my way south....heart pounding the whole way, white knuckling that S&W......
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2009, 06:13:31 PM »
I always carry while hiking.  ( and yes that is legal,there are many, ifs, ands and buts...)
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2009, 06:36:36 PM »
Camping in the Uwharrie National forest in NC, pack of possums (yes possums) , ignored the fire and drunken campers, fellow campers, and literally showed NO fear to either the noise, radio, or campfire.

We were in their yard, and they didn't give a crap.

Never encountered a mountain lion, but 'coons and possums? I can't stand em.

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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2009, 06:45:20 PM »
The Florida Panther is endangered as I recall, I guess if you spend enough time in South Florida, you might run into one.
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Re: Big Cats
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2009, 07:14:02 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on May 25, 2009, 06:45:20 PM
The Florida Panther is endangered as I recall, I guess if you spend enough time in South Florida, you might run into one.
Seen 4 in my 39 years ,one north of Okeechobee, three outside of Everglades City. All very cool.
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2009, 09:41:24 PM »
Quote from: twyacht on May 25, 2009, 06:36:36 PM
Camping in the Uwharrie National forest in NC, pack of possums (yes possums) , ignored the fire and drunken campers, fellow campers, and literally showed NO fear to either the noise, radio, or campfire.

We were in their yard, and they didn't give a crap.

Never encountered a mountain lion, but 'coons and possums? I can't stand em.


Some of the places I have camped, the coons are a terrible problem.  I accidently left a window down and they got in my truck and ate a box of Whitman chocolates.  The little paper cups the chocolates came in were are stacked up neatly, but there were chocolate finger prints everywhere inside and outside my truck.   Luckily they didn't leave any thing else.
I have had them so bold you could barely shoo them away.  We could hardly make dinner as they were several dozen of them raiding from every direction.  If you got a few feet away from any food items they would rush in and steal it.  It looked like something from a comedy show trying to get get the food out, prepared, and cooked while fending off a gang of bandits with a spatula in one hand and a spoon in the other.
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2009, 09:58:33 PM »
Quote from: blackwolfe on May 25, 2009, 09:41:24 PM
Some of the places I have camped, the coons are a terrible problem.  I accidently left a window down and they got in my truck and ate a box of Whitman chocolates.  The little paper cups the chocolates came in were are stacked up neatly, but there were chocolate finger prints everywhere inside and outside my truck.   Luckily they didn't leave any thing else.
I have had them so bold you could barely shoo them away.  We could hardly make dinner as they were several dozen of them raiding from every direction.  If you got a few feet away from any food items they would rush in and steal it.  It looked like something from a comedy show trying to get get the food out, prepared, and cooked while fending off a gang of bandits with a spatula in one hand and a spoon in the other.

Not sure, but that might be your problem right there - bringing a spoon to a gun fight.   8)
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2009, 10:08:57 PM »
 I was at Rye state Park in at Rye Harbor NH one time and saw a crazed tourist running across the park screaming curses and waving a barbaque fork at a Sea Gull that had stolen a chicken leg right off the grill. My Dad and I laughed our asses off  ;D
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Re: Big Cats
« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2009, 10:24:29 PM »
Quote from: Pathfinder on May 25, 2009, 09:58:33 PM
Not sure, but that might be your problem right there - bringing a spoon to a gun fight.   8)
I would have loved to have shot them, but we were in a state park and they were out of season.  I had already had a talking to from the ranger.  We didn't have the tent set up yet and I had unloaded some things from the back of my truck to the picnic table.  I was in the back of my truck changing from shorts to jeans when four coons jumped up on the picnic table 10 feet from me and started stealing and fighting over food.  I jumped out of the truck and chased them down the trail behind our campsite in my underwear.  The ranger didn't take to kindly to that.
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