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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: IDOT]
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10/06/15 06:03 PM
10/06/15 06:03 PM
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Elmore County
Frankie
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Old Mossy Horns
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Elmore County
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how many trails cam pictures from any where have yall seen . Florida has HUNDREDS of trail cam pics and 3 or 4 get run over every year. i guess i aint going to the same boards as you . i see two or three a year posted here and there . i don't think i've seen any posted on this board .
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Frankie]
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10/07/15 02:09 AM
10/07/15 02:09 AM
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Cullman County
yotetrapper
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Cullman County
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i don't believe it take thousands of cougars to have thousands of sightings .
Not trying to single you out Frankie. OK... How many thousands and thousands of reports do you think TN has had over the years? Now they have 1 confirmation of a cat. Not real good odds for very many of those reports to be plausible. Like Matt said, if anyone bring us that picture and we can verify where it was taken then we will confirm it. A good set of tracks would work too but we've yet to see any of those either. I guess cougars don't walk in the dirt. i don't believe there have been thousands and thousands of reports . more like a few hundred if my memory is right for what i've read in the past for the southeast . but hey my memory may be getting bad . I probably have at least hundred people a year tell me they saw a cougar. Most of the time when you really question them it turns out they don't know what they saw. Most people missidentify what they are seeing, but then tell everyone try know it was definitely a panther. If we had even half the Cougars that make up these "sightings" there would be physical evidence of some type, but we have no, none, zero evidence. The places where there are Cougars out west and in Florida they do get pictures and road kills. All that said, it is not out of the realm of possibility that one wanders through Alabama, but I want to see some concrete proof.
Jon Bartlett
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Invmp12]
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10/07/15 03:24 AM
10/07/15 03:24 AM
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Round ‘bout there
Clem
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If only a fraction, a sliver, of the "I seen a cougar ..." or "I know i saw a black panther ..." or "My granny knows what she saw ..." reports were even true then we'd be up to our ears in mountain lions.
And yet there are no legitimate, verifiable photos of all these reports over the years, tracks, scat, kills, dead ones on roads or anything other than the "I seen a ..." stories. They could be here. They probably are, a few of them.
But with all the game cameras, people driving at night, hunters in the woods and somesuch throughout the ENTIRE Southeast, the legitimate, verifiable and real confirmations are miniscule.
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Ben2]
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10/07/15 03:27 AM
10/07/15 03:27 AM
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Atoler
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Look folks. When evidence like that appears in AL then we will confirm one too. They can't go undetected. They're too large. They leave evidence. So far nobody in this state has provided evidence. Just stories. I'm not denying they could possibly be here, and neither would anyone else in our agency. But if there's as many as people claim to have seen we would have a huntable population. You can take my story to the bank. Perry County, late 90's I watched one walk across about a 200 yard wide hay field. It walked up and stood at a barb wire fence watching cows for about 5 minutes then back across the hay field toward the river where it came from. Never seen it again but it was dang sure a cat like in the story above. Crap I hope I ain't started the panther sighting thread for the night. During the same time period, a sheep farmer in that area killed one that was getting into his sheep. He is dead now, but he was nowhere near dumb enough to report it. Could have been the same one. I don't doubt that, on very rare occasion, a cougar might wander through alabama. I just don't believe there are any residents
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
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10/07/15 03:38 AM
10/07/15 03:38 AM
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Mayberry
Brent
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Look folks. When evidence like that appears in AL then we will confirm one too. They can't go undetected. They're too large. They leave evidence. So far nobody in this state has provided evidence. Just stories. I'm not denying they could possibly be here, and neither would anyone else in our agency. But if there's as many as people claim to have seen we would have a huntable population. The Russians would like for us to believe that.
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: jlbuc10]
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10/07/15 03:43 AM
10/07/15 03:43 AM
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Joined: Dec 2002
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Round ‘bout there
Clem
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Mildly Quirky
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Round ‘bout there
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They do get a lot of game cam pictures in florida. Because there's an established, known, legitimate and sizable population of them there.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Invmp12]
#1474054
10/07/15 04:58 AM
10/07/15 04:58 AM
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Oxford, AL. USA
Big Game Hunter
Doesn’t Know His Code
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Doesn’t Know His Code
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Oxford, AL. USA
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Clearly that picture wasn't taken in Alabama. That cat is the rare "tan" colored cougar. if it had been taken here it would have been the much more common black panther.
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Invmp12]
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10/07/15 08:01 AM
10/07/15 08:01 AM
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Hoover
mrfuzz
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I saw a black panther one time.
He was getting his azz beat by the po-po.
my 2nd amendment guarantees your 1st amendment!
cixelsyd ton m'i tub (but i'm not dyslexic)
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Clem]
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10/07/15 09:09 AM
10/07/15 09:09 AM
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Clarksville, TN /Greenville, ...
bill
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They do get a lot of game cam pictures in florida. Because there's an established, known, legitimate and sizable population of them there. In 2013 there was an estimated population of 160 Panthers in the state of Florida. That said, when I lived in Windermere, right outside Orlando, I watched one at 75 yards in mid afternoon for about 5 minutes.
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Frankie]
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10/07/15 10:27 AM
10/07/15 10:27 AM
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Holly Pond, AL
NightHunter
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Holly Pond, AL
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i don't believe it take thousands of cougars to have thousands of sightings .
Not trying to single you out Frankie. OK... How many thousands and thousands of reports do you think TN has had over the years? Now they have 1 confirmation of a cat. Not real good odds for very many of those reports to be plausible. Like Matt said, if anyone bring us that picture and we can verify where it was taken then we will confirm it. A good set of tracks would work too but we've yet to see any of those either. I guess cougars don't walk in the dirt. i don't believe there have been thousands and thousands of reports . more like a few hundred if my memory is right for what i've read in the past for the southeast . but hey my memory may be getting bad . I don't get "official" reports all the time but I get the "I saw a cougar" a couple times a month. I know some of our employees get it more than that. I would really like to know the percentage of the population of AL that has had a cougar "sighting."
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: JSanford1974]
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10/07/15 01:02 PM
10/07/15 01:02 PM
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Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Guntersville
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My kind of cougar.  You have to be careful. They're very dangerous. I live with one. My wife is 7 years older than me. I tell her she was a cougar before they'd even invented the term.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Clem]
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10/07/15 01:14 PM
10/07/15 01:14 PM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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If only a fraction, a sliver, of the "I seen a cougar ..." or "I know i saw a black panther ..." or "My granny knows what she saw ..." reports were even true then we'd be up to our ears in mountain lions.
And yet there are no legitimate, verifiable photos of all these reports over the years, tracks, scat, kills, dead ones on roads or anything other than the "I seen a ..." stories. They could be here. They probably are, a few of them.
But with all the game cameras, people driving at night, hunters in the woods and somesuch throughout the ENTIRE Southeast, the legitimate, verifiable and real confirmations are miniscule.
Why you want go bringing common sense to a Black Painter, Mountain Lion, Cougar thread? 
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Cougar in N/W Tenn.
[Re: Invmp12]
#1474523
10/07/15 01:23 PM
10/07/15 01:23 PM
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Posts: 42,067
UR 6
top cat
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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I have seen one and only one in 53 years. In Skyline.
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