It is... but at least it was a picture of a cat..

That's a good point. I have wondered the same thing. It's like the buffet at Golden Corral for a lion. Maybe they are just really smart and don't want anything to do with humans? I really want to believe they are out there.

My reason for the reply asking for pictures. Everyone wants to see one but... Same reason you don't see any killed by cars and hunters during the deer season, they aren't there.

I grew up in South Texas and I remember seeing pictures in the newspaper of lions that had been hit by cars and those that deer hunters had shot. The outdoors columns were the "internet" of the day ('60's). If they were out there, we would be whacking and stacking them and showing them off on the internet.

i saw one about ten miles south of corrizo springs. i was in the deer stand and only saw him for a sec as he slipped through the brush. i thought i was just seeing stuff. then i ran into the ranch manager and without me saying anything about it he told me a lion has been chasing his cows through the fences. so if i see one make sure and shoot him

Never seen any while hunting worked at backwoods taxidermy shop for 5 years had one guy bring in 2 cubs from west Texas only confirmed I know of

I found some extremenly larger cat tracks in the grasslands this weekend, Way to big to be any bobcat.

While elk hunting in the Trans-Pecos this weekend I found a nice set of lion tracks in some mud that had dried a few days earlier. This was in extreme southwestern Pecos County. On the same ranch but in western Terrell County a lion killed a deer at a feed box/water trough. The cat jumped the deer at the feed box and the deer ran about sixty yards one way and then the cat drug it the opposite way and up a canyon wall that we could not follow.

Earlier this year while counting elk from a helicopter, a biologist spotted 2 cats feeding on a dead deer. They flew back to the headquarters and the biologist took a shotgun and drove back and then walked in to the kill sight. He wasn't really expecting to see them and ended up killing both! Still slopping over the deer and not paying attention.

Not South Texas though.

Back in the late 70's my parents were sleeping with the windows up and heard what they thought was a woman screaming. Dad thought that there had been an accident down on the pavement about 80 yards away. Never saw anything but it caused about 40 heifers to bust out of a fenced pasture. They heard the same scream this past summer while night fishing on the river of Bridgeport Lake. Found some tracks and we hung a dead calf from a tree with a cam on it. Unfortunately all we got was a pack of wild dogs, some buzzards, and what I think is the tail end of a coyote.

Here is an interesting read. I know of a ranch back home in Garza Co. that hunts them with dogs once a year.


http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_br_w7000_0232.pdf

Was quail hunting on the Rio Grande two years ago in Sanderson County. My brother in law and I were almost positive we saw a mountain lion, but were skeptical at best. The next year a group was mule deer hunting and a guy killed a mountain lion. We did find cat tracks that year about six inches long from front to back. I believe the pictures of the cat killed were on this forum. We made probably 100 calls over that area and were never able to call up any bobcats. So I know for a fact they are around.

I saw one crossing a road in Mcmullen Country near Whitset last weekend.

sweet

there are more than a few mountain lions in south texas....family friend killed one between hondo and bandera on off hwy 173 in 94', not really south texas but close enough. Its real enough If you wanna see it its mounted and on display at the b&h liquor store in Hondo, Tx.

we have seen 3 at our ranch, 2 in 95' and the latest one in 08'...I'm not saying the brush is eat up with them, but they are there.

Ive seen 2 in s. texas, one about 25 yrs. ago while driving east
of Cotulla and the other one on my lease outside of Crystal City
in 2006. Have seen tracks on other places in the brush country.
My father-inlaw killed one near Laredo many yrs. back.

1000%

oh yeah I know a landowner whos place I hunt on shot one in webb county in the 80's

Wow, lots of skeptics.
Feed store in Leakey had game cam pics of one nearby, local guy, last year..

I saw one in '92 near San Saba along the Colorado River and then again on the same property in '99. First one was in the spring and he saw my brother and I and turned and ran off. The second one was tailing a doe down a cut thru of mesquites and cedars. By the time I grabbed the rifle he slipped into the thick and dissappeared.
Ranchers and GW's say they travel up and down the Col. River.
Neither one was black though.
Also talked to a GW about not getting them on camera. He thought that they probably set up on the game trails and hit their prey then. They do not like to get out in open spaces if possible.

i havent seen any but i hear our crazy A$$ nabors Lions all the time at our lease