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    Posted: March/09/2011 at 15:04
Got this e-mailed to me today.
 
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This is sorta scary... If these things start hunting in packs we've got a problem...

 

A woman who lives about 25-30 miles from Brady sent these pictures which were taken nine miles from her house. A cow was found killed and the trail cam was put in place to see what was preying on it.
 

You can count up to eight cats in one of the pictures. Who ever heard of eight cougars at a kill site? They're acting more like a pride of lions than the solitary creatures they normally are...
 

 
 
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Can you hunt them in TX?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SVT_Tactical Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March/09/2011 at 15:21
Reminds me of the Texas cougar thread where we all worried CFII had been attacked by a old hottie
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote hunterwingler Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March/09/2011 at 15:28
Holy Sh!t  I dont think i've never ever heard of 8 big cats  being on a kill site together. thats really unusual.

Edited by hunterwingler - March/09/2011 at 20:33
I wasn't upset about the black cat crossing my path this morning but mouthing "your fu@#ed" as he passed was just rude.

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They appear to even have an established pecking order..... scary!
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Could it be a couple of female cats with their sub adult cubs sharing the carcass, sure hope soShocked
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That is odd. We have trail cam pics from the black hills of up to 4 cats on an elk kill at a time, but never as many as 8.

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Originally posted by hunterwingler hunterwingler wrote:

Holy Sh!t  I dont think i've never ever heard of 8 big cats  being on a kill site together. thats really unusual.

i agree, they were always solitary in  the mountain west when i saw them. course at night the rules could change and i dont know any cougars that can read.
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These cats were big news around here a little while back.  They were actually in Washington State.

http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/recreation/regional/article_20f2a6fe-3ad5-11e0-bbd7-001cc4c03286.html

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Tell me that isnt the basis for a DPMS semi auto hunting rifle add.

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Originally posted by Bitterroot Bulls Bitterroot Bulls wrote:

These cats were big news around here a little while back.  They were actually in Washington State.

http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/recreation/regional/article_20f2a6fe-3ad5-11e0-bbd7-001cc4c03286.html

Very interesting article, especially about the fellow that setup the camera talking about the picture showing one of the cats coming down the trail right behind him a few minutes after he left.

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Aren't those two pictures the same??    Shocked       One taken in Texas, and then they all went to Washington to eat another cow??  Check out those two photos.......
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Originally posted by Urimaginaryfrnd Urimaginaryfrnd wrote:

Tell me that isnt the basis for a DPMS semi auto hunting rifle add.
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Originally posted by Bitterroot Bulls Bitterroot Bulls wrote:

These cats were big news around here a little while back.  They were actually in Washington State.

http://missoulian.com/lifestyles/recreation/regional/article_20f2a6fe-3ad5-11e0-bbd7-001cc4c03286.html

 
I really doubted that picture came from Brady, Texas and am really glad it didn't. 
 
You can tell now that you know the facts that they are on a cliff and surveying the valley below.  Still really interesting to see so many in one place. I bet they will be hunted now that this story and photos are so wide spread.
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every one is worried about the big cats, let talk about the wolfs in Id ,Wa Mt & the  other states here. bigs cats have always been & will but the wolfs are a Canadian wolf. I made a post last years pretty something if u can find it I rant a little more about it. until u have seen what they have done u really dont understand.
I wasn't upset about the black cat crossing my path this morning but mouthing "your fu@#ed" as he passed was just rude.

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Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

Can you hunt them in TX?
 
Yep, they are legal to hunt, but they aren't very common here.  I keep hearing all these stories about them roaming all over the state, and in more than 35 years of hunting, I've never seen one in TX outside of a zoo, and have never got a picture of one on a trail cam.
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Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

Can you hunt them in TX?
 
Yep, they are legal to hunt, but they aren't very common here.  I keep hearing all these stories about them roaming all over the state, and in more than 35 years of hunting, I've never seen one in TX outside of a zoo, and have never got a picture of one on a trail cam.
 It is amazing how and where they survive. A few months ago a guy accidently hit and killed a leopard with his car close to the middle of the city of Pretoria.
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Originally posted by 8shots 8shots wrote:

Originally posted by RifleDude RifleDude wrote:

Originally posted by Bigdaddy0381 Bigdaddy0381 wrote:

Can you hunt them in TX?
 
Yep, they are legal to hunt, but they aren't very common here.  I keep hearing all these stories about them roaming all over the state, and in more than 35 years of hunting, I've never seen one in TX outside of a zoo, and have never got a picture of one on a trail cam.
 It is amazing how and where they survive. A few months ago a guy accidently hit and killed a leopard with his car close to the middle of the city of Pretoria.

sorta like coyotes in the united states, they live just about everywhere from down town l.a. to the middle of nowhere wyoming
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About 10 or 12 years ago I was White Tail hunting in Del Rio, TX and down by the river we saw sign of a big cat. We didn't actually see him but we did see tracks and a partially devoured sheep carcass covered up for later eating. There are many wild sheep down there, my buddy who is a Texas native said the sheep were feral and destroying the local environment, so while the local ranchers understandably hate lions, they do some good. But, I have to admit that they scare the hell out of me and if I lived on that ranch and saw one, he'd be a rug in short order.

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