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south texas mountain lions
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09/15/09 06:28 PM
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SouthTexasGoldenTriangle
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Light Foot
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has anyone ever seen one and where?
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: SouthTexasGoldenTriangle]
#906926
09/15/09 07:51 PM
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mulie_mike
THF Trophy Hunter
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Check the TPWD sight they have alot of good info on mountain lions if you do a search
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: mulie_mike]
#907109
09/15/09 09:09 PM
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tx_basser
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Bird Dog
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Saw one just south of San Antonio back in 95 while playing golf.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: tx_basser]
#907124
09/15/09 09:17 PM
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JonnyRay
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Tracker
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Saw one in brownwood Last year
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: JonnyRay]
#907138
09/15/09 09:23 PM
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mattfox
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There was 2 killed on the ranch next to ours last year. they had killed a bunch of the rachers goats and they suspected it was a mom training her young ones to kill before she weined them. And a couple of weeks after they killed the goats the hunters on that ranch jumped a momma cat and two younger ones and they killed the momma and 1 younger and the last one got away.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: mattfox]
#907156
09/15/09 09:32 PM
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kyotee1
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A trapper took 11 off of the ranch I Mule Deer hunt on in Hudspeth County...saw one while hunting, but didn't give us a good shot.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: kyotee1]
#907180
09/15/09 09:45 PM
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rtp
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Saw my first one last year with a buddy of mine while driving around the ranch filling feeders. This was in Refugio county.
Let'em grow old
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: rtp]
#907478
09/15/09 11:40 PM
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Scoop
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Saw a huge one that was road killed on I-10 between Houston and SA in about 85.
In about 2004 another crossed the road in front of me near dusk just south of the BP check point in Hebbronville.
Closest encounter was at a small lease in Benevides in 2002. After cleaning a hog, I took the gut bucket and dumped it over the edge of a steep ravine we used as a dump. Must have almost hit a small mountain lion, cuz it shot out of there and was up the opposite wall and into the woods before I could react. I suppose if it had come up my side I could have whacked it with the bucket... I figure he was holed up in the underhang about 6-8 feet below my feet, and probably raided our gut dump on occasion for food. Fairly young cat, but still a bit of a pucker factor
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Scoop]
#907494
09/15/09 11:50 PM
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deerfeeder
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Saw one many years ago close to San Roman in Starr County on FM 649. He was pretty close to the SW corner of the Robert East Ranch.
The other one I've seen was out in Presidio County, but that's more west Texas than South Texas.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: deerfeeder]
#907511
09/15/09 11:56 PM
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Closed Traverse
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I saw one about an hour south austin. it didnt look to terribly big.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#908339
09/16/09 04:26 AM
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poisonivie
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Pee on Photobucket
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: poisonivie]
#908463
09/16/09 09:45 AM
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Jimbo
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Saw one a few years ago in northern Bexar county while I was driving down a jeep trail that went through the dry Cibolo creek bed. There had been reports of a sighting, and when I crossed the creek the cat ran out in front of my jeep and ran down the middle of the road for about thirty yards and then jumped back into the brush.
I couldn't believe what I'd just seen, it was almost like watching it in slow motion, as I recounted that scene.
I saw another one west of San Antonio during a late evening after I got out of a deer blind and waiting on the road for my ride to show up. I looked off in the distance at a cat with a long tail standing there broadside looking at me about 80 yards away.
It was unmistakeable as he was standing broadside in that gravel road, he turned and walked straight away with that familiar side to side sway of a cat, for several yards before vanishing into the brush.
Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Jimbo]
#908766
09/16/09 02:16 PM
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Dadsaid
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saw a small one in Junction last year. i've been on the look out for it ever since. you really start to think about them when walking to and from the stand in the dark.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Dadsaid]
#908790
09/16/09 02:24 PM
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scott1071
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Tracker
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Saw one north of Jacksboro and we had one on our old lease in Throckmorton.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Dadsaid]
#908791
09/16/09 02:24 PM
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BowHuntinTX
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: BowHuntinTX]
#909230
09/16/09 06:04 PM
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Posts: 32,602
sig226fan (Rguns.com)
duck & cover
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duck & cover
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Saw one in Real County north of Leakey in 08. Landowner had seen him as well as others.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: sig226fan (Rguns.com)]
#909250
09/16/09 06:16 PM
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Ranch Dog
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Okay, anybody have one on game camera picture? Last year there was some pictures floating around of two lions at a feeder in Mexico, what about Texas?
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Ranch Dog]
#909274
09/16/09 06:36 PM
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d.g.ruff
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I saw three of them on the internet just yesterday...
Mmmm Hmmm
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: d.g.ruff]
#909284
09/16/09 06:41 PM
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Posts: 60,657
BOBO the Clown
kind of a big deal
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kind of a big deal
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Was in the elevator with one this morning... sure glad I wasn't wearing my young buck lure... Might of got me in a bind
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: BOBO the Clown]
#909295
09/16/09 06:48 PM
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BenBob
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I went mule deer hunting year before last south of Alpine and the day before they had killed one and shot at another and both were close to feed pens. One was lying under a cedar bush next to a main trail that the deer used to come to the feeder. The other was in a small deep draw about 50 yards from a feeder. I know Alpine is not south Texas, but I was thinking how the feeders brought in the deer and then the deer drew in the mountain lions. By the way, I guess Alpine is south of somewhere though.
Tired, Wired, and Uninspired
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: BOBO the Clown]
#909323
09/16/09 07:02 PM
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Dadsaid
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Tracker
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Was in the elevator with one this morning... sure glad I wasn't wearing my young buck lure... Might of got me in a bind LMAO... nice.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#910276
09/17/09 02:47 AM
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drivingonempty79
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Back in 2004 I saw two of them after a monring hunt near rio grande city in starr county.... I tracked them for about 3/4 of a mile down into huge wash out where their tracks just disappeared.
I wish to become immortal and then die.
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: BenBob]
#910459
09/17/09 03:41 AM
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kix
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Outdoorsman
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Poisonivie Not to start an argument but I'm just curious why you posted "bobcats,one and all."All?There might be a few wide-eyed hunters but "all"?. Granted I've never seen one but the tracks I taped across 200 yds.of sandy loam leading to a cattle trough in deep S.Texas weren't a bobcat and I've seen about a 1000 bobcats in my life.Nor were they the tracks of a 35lb.coyote or dog.What were they? Sure looked like a big cat to me. Kix
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: kix]
#911025
09/17/09 02:44 PM
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jrich
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Saw one in Junction 3 years ago chasing a hog!
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Re: south texas mountain lions
[Re: jrich]
#911056
09/17/09 02:52 PM
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krazyh0rse
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Woodsman
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I shot one in bastrop county in 05. it was small and had spots on it the game warden told me it was a young mtn lion but it was attacking my cousins goats
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