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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Ben Lilly]
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03/06/13 01:56 AM
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cause it can kill your asss
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 02:04 AM
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Heck yes! I would love to have one on the wall beside my unicorn and sasquatch!
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: huntwest]
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03/06/13 02:49 AM
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Heck yes! I would love to have one on the wall beside my unicorn and sasquatch! is that sasquatch a full mount or just a shoulder mount? Maybe a European?
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Stump_jumper]
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03/06/13 02:53 AM
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You have a better chance hunting and killing an alien.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Coscabel]
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03/06/13 03:09 AM
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The unicorn is a shoulder mount and the rainbow gliiter mane is sweeet! The sasquatch is just a skull, that thing smelled so bag I had to ditch the hide!
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: huntwest]
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03/06/13 04:07 AM
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Gun's don't kill people. The Government does.
I killed eight gophers last year and a purebred Tennessee walking horse that was looking at me funny.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Ben Lilly]
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03/06/13 11:31 AM
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Here is a video of a "big black cat" - not a black cougar, not a black mountain lion. But of course...they don't exist... rolleyes As footage goes for claims of black panthers, that would be spot-on perfect. The cat isn't clear in the video. There is no scale to reasonable assess size. No real detail is present. Of course, there is no body.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Double Naught Spy]
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03/06/13 11:43 AM
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Here is a video of a "big black cat" - not a black cougar, not a black mountain lion. But of course...they don't exist... rolleyes As footage goes for claims of black panthers, that would be spot-on perfect. The cat isn't clear in the video. There is no scale to reasonable assess size. No real detail is present. Of course, there is no body. That's true. And it could be a pet jaguar. But it's not a house cat. And it could be a pet cougar that someone dyed its hair for a hoax.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 11:43 AM
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 12:08 PM
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 12:23 PM
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Definatly not a house cat. and orn that was the video i was talking about.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: BuckRage]
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03/06/13 01:26 PM
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 01:35 PM
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I would pass too. Original Texas settlers recorded that they existed in South Texas when they got here. They went away with the bears, buffalo and leopards. That is why I would pass. Seen any passenger pigeons lately?
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 01:36 PM
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Not me. I would catch it
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 02:22 PM
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If it moves, shoot it! NO
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 03:03 PM
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Thats a house cat in that video. Just like the video people shot across a tank of a cat on a tank dam, just a house cat.
Do you honestly think if there was food in that food plot (deer) that the cat would make his presence known? They're the most patient hunters in the animal kingdom. They will likely sit extremely still along the edge and wait for supper to come walking by. The the deer in the picture is clearly not a prey item for the cat or on its menu, housecat.
The muscle structure just isn't there for it to be a leopard or a jaguar and we all know black mountain lions do not exist; housecat.
IF I see a big black cat, I'm shooting. The only big black cat that would possibly be seen is an exotic species that does not belong here in the states.
I don't for a minute believe it would be a jaguar that migrated north from Mexico, because where are all of yellowish colored jaguars??? There are none. So with the black jaguars being 10% of the population or so, a black cat seen in the states is not a Jaguar that wandered its way over here from the wild.
IF you see a large black cat, its an escapee, good chance it has lost its fear of humans, you bet I'm shooting.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Legal Enough]
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03/06/13 03:25 PM
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I would pass too. Original Texas settlers recorded that they existed in South Texas when they got here. They went away with the bears, buffalo and leopards. That is why I would pass. Seen any passenger pigeons lately? Settlers in south Tx. black coat jaguars. They still have spots that can be seen in the daylight and do exist even today. The only true large black cats ever verified were in Asia nd Africa.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 03:50 PM
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Do you honestly think if there was food in that food plot (deer) that the cat would make his presence known? They're the most patient hunters in the animal kingdom. They will likely sit extremely still along the edge and wait for supper to come walking by. The the deer in the picture is clearly not a prey item for the cat or on its menu,
That's not always the case. Large cats, and other predators, are often seen amongst animals that would otherwise be their prey. The animals know when the cats are hunting and when they're just strolling by looking for a drink or commuting to another spot. If, in fact, that was a large cat, and I'm not saying it was, it obviously wasn't in hunting mode. I agree with Orn, I don't think it's a housecat. This video is kind of like Bigfoot video footage/pictures,..there's only enough there to wet your pallet, but nothing of any substance to satisfy your taste buds.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 07:11 PM
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The sasquatch is just a skull, that thing smelled so bag I had to ditch the hide! I can't stand sasquatch trophy hunters.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Choctaw]
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03/06/13 09:48 PM
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The sasquatch is just a skull, that thing smelled so bag I had to ditch the hide! I can't stand sasquatch trophy hunters. So its ok to shoot a unicorn but not a Sasquatch? I suppose the Loch Ness monster is fair game too? Why don't you just knock-up the tooth fairy, shoot Rudolph, snare the Easter bunny, and put out poison catnip for all the black mtn lions. Geesh...no respect for nature at all.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 10:52 PM
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There is one that has been reported over by the NSSA and Talley Rd near San Antonio..Color is not indigent to this area..Mountain Lions here to W. Texas are yellow mostly w/ball tail coming from No. Mexico..Dick who retired as director of NSSA saw this cat himself I'm told..I had a lady call me that was loosing Barbados from behind a 4' high pipe rail fence..she had over 100..and they wgt. from 125 to 250lbs..I went out and there was a large Barbado Ram hanging over her fence w/it's legs caught.in the panel wire. She didn't want to pay me for using my dogs in an Residential area w/sheep farmers or pay for my lost dogs..within a month it had killed every sheep she had..DD
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
[Re: Don Dial]
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03/06/13 11:00 PM
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I would shoot it, have it verified, mount it, create a wonderful carney style display, then make a tour of every hunting outdoor show and expo in the State, including the Texas State Fair and charge per head to see "the real, it's true, the one and only, Texas Black Panther"! Of course I would pick up some other strange but true oddities like a double headed rattlesnake, a real jackelope, a real chupacabra, and more to make sure everyone got their money's worth. I would be rich in no time.
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/06/13 11:34 PM
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I've heard feline meat is good eating...
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/07/13 12:35 AM
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I saw some sort of black critter 25 yrs ago in Colorado county. I had a scoped .243, it was about 200 yds away. It was slightly bigger than a bobcat, a tail equal to its body length. At the time I said it was black. In hindsight, it may have been a silvery black. I watched it till it disappeared. Never shot
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Re: Would you shoot a black panther?
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03/07/13 01:52 AM
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