Mountain Lion

[Weekday Warrior]

I've seen a lot of them, I used to live in a Cougar study area until I moved into town.


The biggest one I've seen was when I was driving truck, I was loaded going up a hill when a large Cougar trotted out onto the road.

I was amazed how large it was, its head was at the yellow line and tail was still coming across the white line! The belly was drooped way low almost dragging the pavement.

another 100 yards up the roadway was a couple small school children waiting on the school bus, the cat easly would have heard their chatter.

I told the school bus driver via radio






I had another cat run out in front of my pickup, not a huge cat but stupid fast. I was driving a 66 chevy fleetside doing 60 mph and the cat dissappeard under my hood....I expected a thump but didn't feel it, instead the cat jumped from the yellow line across the entire opposing lane, cleared the ditch and a 6 foot rock wall on the far side of the ditch.

***gin amazing.

 

[xrated]

haven't seen one and I care not too.

4 or 5 years back a guy killed one about 10 miles away on his porch...DNR said it was wandering. Not to sure about that. Word is that a guy in Floodwood, MN about 30 miles from my parents place had one on his trail cam last year.....and rumors are about that the DNR snuck a few in. Might be time for me to start packing when I'm in the woods.

 

[flatlander_99]

haven't seen one and I care not too.

and rumors are about that the DNR snuck a few in.

i don't care to see one either! the rumors about the dnr sneaking in a few i think started in sw mn. suposedly they released 5 in lincoln county 2 years ago. in lyon county there are rumors of a bobcat living in camden state park. my parents live right next to the park & have never seen it or even tracks. they have seen some very large yote tracks though. about 15 years ago i remember seeing yote tracks as big as my foot but i was pretty small. i would rather live with the yotes than the cats any day!!!

 

[Rob1334]

I live 3 miles north of bismarck, by the railroad tracks. The railroad crosses my property on the west end. I have seen the reflection of cat's eyes, off the patio lights, at night through our mid tree row which seperates our rear acreage. 'yotees eyes also, can't mistake the cat eyes. The cat comes in where the fence is down along the tracks. I have alfalfa planted back there for horses to graze. Constantly deer grazing back there... prime cat bate.
When hunting the badlands north of belfield (back in by Magpie road) We have seen cat tracks...
Have found cat tracks on our property near Dunn Center also. They are out there and expanding their terrtories in ND

----- Gimpster ----

Must live right off of 26th up there huh? Ya I hate how the Game and Fish deny all sightings, they are here in large numbers, they choose when they want to be seen and by who for the most part.

Magpie road? Very familiar, drive it weekly in the fall for work. That grassy Butte area is prime for them, hence of all the tags filled in ND about 80% come from that small area. Buckhorn butte/Magpie oil field areas as well as th Elkhorn area out there are awesome.... Little local info if you are a hunter, go to the Icecaves just north of Magpie, a little walk in, but there is a drainage south of there that has had reported sightings mulitple times by both Maah Daah Hey users and some coworkers...

 

[Gimpster]

Must live right off of 26th up there huh? /QUOTE]

West of 26th, south of where 71st crosses the tacks.
So I have seen them within the 2 mile zone around Bismarck
71st isthe 2 mile zone line

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[Gimpster]

i don't care to see one either! the rumors about the dnr sneaking in a few i think started in sw mn. suposedly they released 5 in lincoln county 2 years ago. in lyon county there are rumors of a bobcat living in camden state park. my parents live right next to the park & have never seen it or even tracks. they have seen some very large yote tracks though. about 15 years ago i remember seeing yote tracks as big as my foot but i was pretty small. i would rather live with the yotes than the cats any day!!!

Total agree on the 'yotee's over cats !!



----- Gimpster -----

 

[xrated]

i don't care to see one either! the rumors about the dnr sneaking in a few i think started in sw mn. suposedly they released 5 in lincoln county 2 years ago. in lyon county there are rumors of a bobcat living in camden state park. my parents live right next to the park & have never seen it or even tracks. they have seen some very large yote tracks though. about 15 years ago i remember seeing yote tracks as big as my foot but i was pretty small. i would rather live with the yotes than the cats any day!!!

Give it a year or two and you'll be living with wolves....they are at home in Aitkin County for the past few years.

 

[Sidehiller]

Come on guys, I think we might be exagerating or were a little excited. A lion as long as a ford bumper to bumper? Head as high as the hood? Head over the yellow line, tail still crossing the white line? You guys do know that drinking and driving is illegal, right? A BIG mountain lion is 9' nose to tip of tail.
As for lions being worse than bears - from 2000 to present in the US and Canada there have been 15 black bear fatalities and 9 from Grizzlies.
From 1991 - 2003 there were 10 lion fatalities.
There are more lion attacks, but fewer fatalities.

 

[Reeb]

Well I don't think I have to remind many but last summer I had an ordeal involving a mountain cat. My little brother was attacked while camping with the neighbours at their weekend property. Week in Childrens Hospital, couple hundred stitches, a few scars and he's back better than before, but lemme tell you how scared it is to know a loved one was attacked.....still brings shivers to my spine. I have to thank our neighbour(who fought the cat with his bare hands) his family for acting quick, the RCMP detatchment for administring first aid and of course BC Childrens Hospital.

 

[seized_up]

I have a good buddy that road killed one in his suburban when he was driving to hunting camp a few years back near Leadore, ID. The dumb SOB put it in the back or his suburban and turned it into Fish and Game the next day! He must have been pretty dang sure it was dead!

I saw one on the highway about 1/2 mile out of Avon, MT last spring. It looked huge! Only one I have seen in person though.

A couple years ago I was hunting in the Frank Church wilderness in central Idaho and was hiking by myself and found a fresh elk kill and some soft blood red poop. I was on a 6 mile primitive horse trail that made a loop past some hot springs i wanted to check out. I was just past the halfway point when I saw the first tracks in the mud by the creek crossing. I was scared like a child! The canyon got so narrow at one point for about 200 yards that it was only wide enough for the creek that flowed through it and it was still considered a trail! There was a sand bar in the middle of the creek and thats where I saw the elk carcass. I only had a .25-06 with me since I was deer hunting at the time. I had a round chambered and the safety was off. Looking back I was probably as much of a danger to myself as the cat(s) were. I have never been scared for my own well being like that before and hope I am not again.

I told my dad about the experience at camp that night. The week after we got back his buddy told him that the Unit we were in had a two cat bag limit because there were so many! Like someone mentioned above, they do take a noticeable toll on the deer/elk population.

 

[flatlander_99]

Give it a year or two and you'll be living with wolves....they are at home in Aitkin County for the past few years.

you can keep them up there too! i've heard enough about them out west that i don't want to experience that either!!!

 

[Weekday Warrior]

check out the cover of Washingtons big game hunting pamphlet 2008-09

should say something

oh ya, we get to shoot two of them per year!