Posted on 11/12/2007 4:14:44 PM PST by george76
A hunter was attacked by a mountain lion Sunday near Kalispell.
The hunter told officials he was several miles in on a trail when he heard what sounded like the scream of a mountain lion.
A short time later, he heard a growl and turned to see a lion about 10 to 15 feet away.
The man dropped his rifle and rushed to get behind a tree.
The lion pounced on his back and knocked him into the tree.
The collision made the lion lose its grip and the hunter reached his pistol and fired a shot...
He met several other hunters who helped him to reach his car.
The hunter began driving back to Kalispell and notified relatives, who met him with assistance.
At the Kalispell Regional Medical Center, the man received five stitches for cuts to his leg from the lions claws.
He also was treated for scratches on his back and shoulder and a few puncture wounds to the back of his head.
The hunters backpack, which was shredded, probably prevented the lion from causing more serious injuries...
In 1989, a lion killed a 5-year-old boy in Evaro. In 1990, there was a rash of encounters between people and lions in western Montana.
In the 1990s, lions were sighted in Missoula proper, including one that stalked a small child and one that was captured in a basement, both in the lower Rattlesnake residential area.
In 1998, a lion attacked a small boy near Marshall Mountain Ski Area before it was fought off by a 16-year-old camp counselor.
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
shoot, shovel and shut up...
“Perhaps he forgot the little Brass Bells ?”
And scare off the game you’re hunting?
Oops, didn’t notice the sarcasm dripping.....
Understand........It happens !
Hope yer well !
Stay Safe AB !!
in colorado there is a saying. “if you live your entire life in colorado and see a mountain lion -and live to tell the story you are D@mn lucky”
Not in Maine, they ain't.
Don't pay any attention to the photos, to what you see, or what others report - the state says there are no cougars in Maine - so that's that...and I did not see a Canadian Lynx run down my drive and off through the forest either - no sirree...
Darwin Award.
The one thing you don't do when a mountain lion attacks is to run away.
Not loaded maybe? Empty single shot or blackpowder?
Must not have thought it would be of any use, or he just wet himself and ran.
As has been noted, running from a big cat will get you pounced on.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that all but one (maybe two) were females, pointing to an early season closure with only 1/2 the quota of 35 harvested.
These guys need to get cracking on taking out some males.
It’s an allusion to an old bear joke. That’s what you find in bear scat. Heh heh...
Prove it; as far as I can tell that's another eco-myth. Around here the land was settled for agriculture over a hundred-thirty years ago and abandoned when rural electrification powered well pumps down in the Santa Clara Valley. At that time the cats were under control. People started moving back in the 1970s. It wasn't until the Sierra Club sponsored a ballot initiative with all sorts of lies that the State banned hunting the cats that the cats have become a problem.
Now more of them are hunted and killed than ever, by unionized government hunters on a pension, where the State used to make a profit on tags.
Here kitty, kitty, kitty!
You can't legally hunt them in CA right now, but you can kill them if they threaten you. SSS is advisable in that case, however. Killing a mountain lion is almost worse than shooting a human in the eyes of the legal system.
A "NEWBE", city slicker.
Thanks for posting that link; the guy was really lucky to be alive.
LOL!
There are starting to be cougars where I hunt. I have seen tracks, but never a live one. One wandered into my father’s farm a year or so ago, and dragged off a dead pig.
After that he bought an XD40 for doing chores.
A friend gave me a hind quarter from his lion. It was good. Lean and tasty.
One of our neighbors lost a dog in their backyard to a lion.
The folks were sitting in lawn chairs as the lion ran thru the yard and the lion caught the dog.
No kids yet.
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