Posted on 01/08/2020 7:01:31 AM PST by marktwain
Picture by Caldwell family, with permission. Cropped by Dean Weingarten
Mountain lion populations are on the increase and pose significant threats to unarmed humans. Mountain lions were involved in a flurry of interaction with humans in the last two weeks of 2019.
On 26 December 2019, Gary Gorney was hunting pheasants with his two dogs, in the Custer Mine hunting area near Minot, North Dakota. His dogs alerted him to something ahead. Instead of a pheasant, a large female mountain lion charged him out of the grass. He shot and killed the lion with his 9mm pistol.
Gorney said he was talking on his cell phone when his German shorthair, Milly, went on point. He put the cell phone in his pocket with the expectation that a rooster pheasant was about to take flight. Instead, a large female mountain lion emerged from the tall grass and came right at him.
“I dropped my dad’s 100-year-old double-barrel, I don’t even remember doing that, and went for the sidearm that I carry with me underneath my jacket,” said Gorney. “My instincts as a military law enforcement officer took over. There was no thought process. It was self-defense.”
The mountain lion was within 10 feet of Gorney when it was hit by a bullet from Gorney’s 9-millimeter handgun.
On the last day of the year, in 2019, near the Pine Canyon trailhead, a few miles Northeast of Tucson, Arizona, Pima County Sheriff deputies discovered three mountain lions were feeding on a human body. The three lions were unafraid of people. The lions did not flee as officers approached. They were feeding on the body within sight of human homes. From kold.com:
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I have similar very remote property in the Az. mountains here. Even though Cats normally control their own population through respecting each others territory, it doesn’t always work that way. Our local rancher had to give up on ranging stock on our mountain because there are just too many cats up there.
Will do.
“Corner a wild animal - even just corner it territorially - and it will react as any living thing does when it is desperate; taking risks more aggressively.”
And cats are indeed VERY territorial , even against each other.
No such animal as a "Florida Panther." We once had smaller American cougars here (just as our squirrels and deer are smaller) because of the climate, but those were ALL mongrelized in the early to mid 1900s by exotic cats. The kittens began to deform and the species declined.
To make matters worse, academic PINHEADS mated those mongrelized cats with larger more aggressive cats from Texas.
So what he have is a retarded, man-made Frankenstein cat that has nothing to do with the natural fauna. It needs to be exterminated - not have sports teams named after it. We have thousands of acres of beautiful land cordoned off for this piece of SHIT cat - that doesn't belong here. Ranchers/landowners are constantly having their herds attacked and businesses messed with by feds and NGOs.
The "Florida" panther is nothing more than a political tool/lie to fund leftists and enviro-goon orgs.
We had a sighting across the street from our farm in October and our game cam picked up this mountain lion a week later. We are located on Lookout Mountain in NW Georgia. I would post the picture here, but I don’t know how.
I carry a Ruger Redhawk with a 5.5 inch barrel. I wanted a double action which is why I didn’t go for a Blackhawk. I had no intention of using it for hunting so the 7.5 inch and the 9.5 inch barrels were unnecessary and would make it a pain to pack/carry and to draw. I liked the Ruger because those things are built like tanks - they are if anything overbuilt being thicker, using more steel and a bit heavier than is actually necessary. This makes them rugged as hell. Good.
“The shotgun could have been broken open or even unloaded.”
His dog was hunting and went on point just before the attack. That would be a strange time to be carrying an unloaded shotgun.
I would fired the birdshot at close range and then beat the cat to death if necessary, Texas style!
Does that picture accompanying the article have anything to do with this incident? The person holding the gun looks like a young female and the gun is a modern scoped rifle and clearly not a 100 year old double barrel shotgun.
What was this guy thinking?
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A hungry kill kitty charging from ambush? I’m fair sure he wasn’t thinking anything at all. Just reacting.
He said he was an MP. Might be all his training is about pulling a pistol and getting it sighted under stress.
In an ambush situation, it’s not about thinking, it’s about doing at a nearly autonomic level.
Duh! Mountain Lions are just making a living when they attack humans, pets or any other animals.
I love mountain lions, and am glad that they roam the Santa Monica mountains where I live and hike. It makes life a bit more adventurous.
Of course, I carry tools that provide protection in dangerous environments.
We are not that far from the Lookout Mtn ridge. I guess roughly 100 miles. In terms of a cat range, I understand that is not too far.
I’m witchoo.
Mebbe the cell phone was what ticked off the mountain lion?
If he was texting, might have been a grizzly....
Interesting perspective.
Thanks for providing it.
Coming soon to Colorado if the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project has its way...
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