Ever gotten stalked by a Mt. Liom?

Ikeepitcold · Jul 30, 2018

I bet more of us have been and don’t know. As much as most of us have been in the mountains I would bet most of us has had a lion staring us down and didn’t even know they were there.

ivorytip · Jul 30, 2018

Ikeepitcold said:
I bet more of us have been and don’t know. As much as most of us have been in the mountains I would bet most of us has had a lion staring us down and didn’t even know they were there.

This!! i bet if we looked up in the trees more we would see more

Timberstalker · Jul 30, 2018

I had an encounter with one about 25 years ago. We had a very long stare down at about 100 yards from each other. Nothing I did or said or shouted would make it go away. Finally after about 20 minutes I jump off the rock I was standing on to another ant that triggered it to run towards me. I didn’t have a gun ant though I was toast. When I got about 20 yards away I lost sight of it as it hit the brush between us. I screamed at it at that point ant things went silent. I must have scared it enough for it to disappear, it just vanished. I slowly eased my way out of there and never saw it again.

HighPlainsHunter · Jul 30, 2018

I have felt stalked on several occasions in NW Nebraska where lion populations are out of control. Had them half a mile up the road in the neighbors tree row, numerous neighbors had shot them. I know I saw one trail cam pic from Chadron the other day that had 4 lions together just outside a barn behind a ranchers house.

What causes the biggest issues is when mom gets shot. Then you end up with 3-4 cubs who stalk people, pets, livestock, as they get desperate for food.

One of the more meorable was a friend who had a lion follow them as they were on horses. Found the tracks on top of theirs just a few minutes later as one rider went back.

Glad to see the season back open.

JimP · Jul 30, 2018

I don't think that a cat will stalk a hunter but like all cats they are quite curious of what is going on. I have hiked down a ridge and then come back only to see cat tracks right on top of mine. I even watched one follow another hunter around a hill through brush where there was no trail so we knew that the cat was following him.

But like the others have said it might surprise you to know how many you have walked pass or have watched you as you hike through the woods.

Tim McCoy · Jul 30, 2018

Often wondered how many lost and never found folks ended up as cat scat. They will presumably stalk humans, as they have and will attack humans. Rare, but it just happened in WA.

I've seen plenty of bobcats, but never a cougar without using dogs. Got the willies a few times and wondered why, a big kitty perhaps? No idea. I did stop one at my feet with a shot once, but we had him bayed in a cave and under duress.

AKaviator · Jul 30, 2018

B&C posted a video of 4 mountain lions on someones deck in Colorado. That would keep me indoors for awhile but it's a really cool video!
I've never seen a wild one...not many up here!

badgerbob · Jul 30, 2018

My Sister and Nephew both have been..Two separate occasions, they weren't together.

rammont · Jul 30, 2018

Years ago we were stalked while hunting deer in Arizona. It was little creepy realizing that it was above us while we were walking along a canyon floor. My brother-in-law took a shot at it to scare it off. It was in a crouch about 6 feet above my dad, we thought the brother-in-law was shooting at us. The cat took off when we looked up at him. We never got a shot off, he moved way too fast.

dirtclod Az. · Jul 30, 2018

Hunted Az. all my life,have never seen one,I have found many times where lions have been in the same place I was minutes before.I know they are out there watching...and waiting.

Good kitty,kitty,kitty.

JimP · Jul 30, 2018

I have been lucky in the number of them that I have seen while out hunting.

One year my partner and I could hear a unholy screaming coming from the canyon that we were watching. I figured that it was a bear cub or something of that nature so I started to glass for it. After a few minutes I looked straight down into the draw below us and then told my partner that he wasn't going to believe what I had just saw. He didn't have any binoculars so I handed mine to him and as soon as I got my rifle up to my shoulder they were all done. It was a male and female cat making babies. That was one for the books.

tim · Jul 31, 2018

twice

once in 2004 and just last elk season. north Idaho has more predators than people realize.

he wanted my elk, my wife wanted him.

Hilltop · Jul 31, 2018

I have seen tracks in mine on one occasion but they didn't follow mine more than a few yards. It is a very rare day to see one in the area of Wyoming I hunt most. One of my buddies did have one very close a couple of seasons ago. It left without incident but made him re-consider what he carries for defense.

hunter25 · Jul 31, 2018

I've taken one with dogs but other than that I've only seen 1.
Was deer hunting with my daughter and jumped one on a fresh deer kill. It merely looked at us for a few seconds and vanished into the brush. Never saw it again.

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KHSRanger23 · Jul 31, 2018

In 2011 me and my brother were Elk hunting in the Uinta Mountains during general bull elk season. We were on top of a ridge following Elk tracks in fresh snow. We eventually got to a point that we could glass the elk and saw there were no bulls. So we started to backtrack along our tracks to find another vantage point to glass from. We noticed mountain lion tracks had followed along our tracks, moving in and out of the tree line and then veering of and down a steep part of the mountain. The cat could have been following the elk just like us, then maybe heard us and took off? It was a bit creepy seeing the tracks as we had not heard or seen anythinguntil finding the tracks. From the track compared to my glove in the picture it looked like a decent sized cat.

I have never seen a mountain lion in the wild, seen tracks several times, and got a few pictures on game cameras. They are truly master predators and ghosts of the mountains.

minn elk chaser · Jul 31, 2018

I shot an elk late one afternoon, gutted it and hiked out of the mountains at dark. There was snow on the ground and was soft from the sun that day. The next morning I went back in to get the elk and had cat tracks in my footprints for a few hundred yards that must have been made not to long after I got out and before the snow froze that night. If they decide they want you I am not sure you would even know they were coming until it is to late.

speezer87 · Jul 31, 2018

never been stalked, at least not that i knew of. But did have an interesting encounter finding a track. it was 15 years ago hunting in upstate new york with my dad. We had separated by a few hundred yards, and we sitting in ground blinds. It was getting later in the day, and i had a half a mile walk back to the cabin. So i started slowly still hunting my way home. Came across what i thought was a big dog track in some snow. After some more investigating i determined it was a lion track(actually confirmed when i got home and looked it up online). Ended up following the tracks for 30 or so yards before thinking better of it.

Nothing really all that special about this encounter except for the fact that Mt Lions didnt live on the east coast at that time(at least not officially). Pretty cool seeing something that "doesnt exist"

Gr8bawana · Jul 31, 2018

We once came upon a lion kill that was still so fresh that the snow that was falling hadn't started to cover it up. The ground around the deer the car scraped debris from to cover it was still bare of snow as well.
I'm sure it was very near watching us checking out it's stash. It was kind of creepy in the before sunrise darkness.

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