Just watched the Denver 10 o'clock news about a family being stalked by a mountain lion. Had to laugh and hope that I can find a clip to post. This guy is loosing feral and his house cats to a mountain lion on his property in the mountains. The guys wife says that the lion is trying to get into the house to eat their cats. Check this out the guy says he only feels safe outside their house when he is carrying of all things a pellet pistol. He said that he hopes it will sting the cat enough to keep him away from his house. I hope someone finds a news clip of this one because it is funny, CBS channel 4 aired it.
A pellet pistol ? Then you better have pepper spray as a back up !!! The tree huggers have no clue . I watched the tv news recently and saw the police in a residential area shoot a bear in NJ. One fellow I talked to said he was in the 'attack mode' standing on his hind legs. I explained that bears attack on all fours not standing up.
I prefer them to move your guys direction than north to my area, but that has been the sad trend lately. No SF is not really northern California. I am five hours north of SF and still 2 hours south of Oregon.
Please let LA, Sac, and SF people move to Mexico! It will save us all a lot of trouble.
Posts: 3284 | Location: Mountains of Northern California | Registered: 22 November 2005
Please, by all means, come to NoCal and drive hwy 101. If you make it to my house in less than 5 hours you did not do it legally, and the chances are you got a ticket. After that enjoy the two hours to Crescent City and then the 20 minutes to Oregon.
Trust me there is a lot of country between SF the Bay area and Oregon, but most people do not realize it and personally we all prefer it that way!!!!!
Posts: 3284 | Location: Mountains of Northern California | Registered: 22 November 2005
I've been stalked while looking for sheds in the spring,plenty of snow still on the ground in places under trees or shaded by large trees.The game warden wanted to know exactly where that happened as houses were less than 3 miles away from where he thought I was talking about.I saw him a couple weeks later and he said the big cats were eating dogs and cats in a subdivision.The main complaint was from a guy that owned 20 acres and warned all of us hunters to not hunt around him,well the game wardens found the mother and 1 baby cat and darted them move them far away.That same guy asked a friend if he would bring a gun over and look around as he lost another pet,found big cat tracks.He didn't like hunters before but now has changed his mind and asks a bunch to come over and hunt and look for big cats.I told him sooner or later it will come down to a hunter fixing his problem.When will they learn?.Drop-Shot
Posts: 91 | Location: Helena,Montana | Registered: 26 December 2005
333 OKH - Trust me there is a lot of country between SF the Bay area and Oregon, but most people do not realize it and personally we all prefer it that way!!!!!
Speed limits?? Tickets?? What are those things??
Actually, I've driven that route several times for various reasons when I lived in Los Angeles for 35 years. Just never recall spending that much time behind the wheel.
Good luck on keeping the L. A. flatlanders and San Francisco libs out. I hear they are making their way north like a herd of sheep!
L.W.
"A 9mm bullet may expand but a .45 bullet sure ain't gonna shrink."
Even here in the Roaring Fork valley of western CO city folks now far outnumber guys like me who grew up here when my town had less than 700 people, and everyone hunted. We lived with animals, both in the woods and on the ranch; I think we had some idea of the nature of the local beasts. It absolutely amazes me the anthropomorphic BS that lots of city folks seem to conjure up, then when they move into "the country", as this joker has, and see first hand the nature of wild animals, it still doesn't register. and...AND... AND! Okay, I'll get off this soapbox now while I still can...
Posts: 866 | Location: Western CO | Registered: 19 February 2004
I have a friend that elk hunts in the same area as I and a few years ago (5 or 6) was hunting a deep cut ravine near a river when out of the corner of his eye caught the movement of a mountain lion. He knew that if there was a mountain lion in the area, elk would not be there. He took his hunt further down the ravine and low and behold the lion would parallel him as he moved. He would loose sight of the lion from time to time but it would always showed up fairly close to where he set up. He finally had enough of it and shot the lion, but only after he had tried to avoid it. To this day he thinks the lion had decided that it was him he was after.
Beautiful cat, was it a tom? How much did it weigh and what did it's skull measure. Where I hunt elk the ranch has a full mount of a 170lb Tom on display for everyone to see. Are you able to use dogs where you hunt for lion? Dogs are not legal in CO.
