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Figured these low brows would eventually get to the gook pungee pits and cartel planes in the woods

I figured you were in ukraine with one of them counting wheels on a stick.

That's probably it, I just missed it!

About 5 years ago I seen one in forkland. About 3/4 mile from the campground. Walking out one night after dark and shined the light on one at 30 yards.

This is obviously a natural selection attribute.The dumb ones stay in Florida ,get their pics took and get hit by cars. The smart ones migrate north to Georgia and Alabama.

I saw 2 last summer. I was about 50 yards from them and they were on a rock ledge. No doubt, 100% mountain lions. I took pics.

If you want to see them I can give you the coordinates, they live right there where I saw them.

Tha Nashville Zoo.

Warden where I hunt in Nebraska told me they collared one there and lost track of it in Springfield, IL

So those in SW Nebraska could get here just as fast I’d think

They are rough on deer especially older bucks post rut he said.

Tigers for Tomorrow in Etowah county had some black panthers several years ago.My friend took his three or four year old son.He said when they went by their enclosure they stalked his son all the way around. He said they were focused on the little one and no one else.

The odds of that shot happening are alot more probable than the odds of your whole family seeing mountain lions.

i never cared if folks believed me or not i used to hunt places nobody would hunt . you right about those dark places never now whats hideing in them.

I know a few people that have seen them over my lifetime come to think about it. One couple I know live on green mountain in Huntsville on the north end of the mountain and back in the 2000s they Said one lived in their cave system on their property. They were millionaires that owned a contracting missile defense company. Their entire rear house was a window on a bluff line facing Hampton cove. They had cameras everywhere and would see it on camera and through the windows. Their Labrador hated it. Few years later they found their lab dead behind their house at the bottom of the bluff. They think the mt lion ran it off the bluff. They didn't have that on camera but said the dog was familiar with the bluffs and grew up there for years.

Another was in the mid 90s, upper hurricane rd new market. Woman saw a black one in her yard a few times along the wood line.

Then my aunt saw a brown one around 2010 I think. Again, new market on MTN fork rd. She had enough time to go get her boyfriend and a spot light and watched it.

I have never seen one but I know these three people and have no reason not to believe them. They're all successful people and normal. They're the type of people that wouldn't go advertising it and wouldn't even care to prove it. They're older quiet people. Most people that live in the country are there for solitude. They avoid people.

I was deer hunting in Texas and had a mountain lion cross a 40 yard pipeline opening. Neat sight to see but when it got dark I didn’t want to come out of the shooting house until my buddy drove right up to the door. The mountain lions tail looked to be almost as long as his body.

The reason I put very little stock in these internet stories relates back to the earlier threads about black panthers. Now when anyone starts a thread about black panthers it is almost universally started as a joke. But there used to be people who were dead serious about seeing them. They would relate the EXACT same kind of stories we see now about mt lions. "I seen one back in 1984." "Walked past me at less than 40 yards and I watched him for a good 5 minutes." Of course the problem was these people were not only claiming to see an animal that did not exist in Alabama but an animal that doesn't exist PERIOD. There are no black panthers. Never have been. You could literally change everywhere they said "black panther" in their story to "unicorn", "minotaur", or "griffin" and their story would still be just as plausible. But that didn't stop them from claiming it. And then of course there are the ones who claim to have seen bigfoot which is also utterly ridiculous and undoubtedly utter bullchit. But still they claim it. So sorry I don't believe these stories without proof. Proof that despite all the claimed encounters never seems to materialize. As Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "incredible claims require incredible evidence." Internet claims are not evidence at all much less incredible evidence.

Y’all need to get a map of Alabama and study it.

Where are these “dark places” that nobody ever goes?

What is the largest piece of property in Alabama without some type of road running through it?

I seriously doubt that there is a single place in the State where you could drop someone off in the middle of the woods and they can’t walk out within an hour or two.

I was a practicing forester for 15 years. In the woods nearly every day. These places where “nobody has ever been” or “nobody goes” do not exist.

The Sipsey Wilderness is only about 4 miles wide.

Todd, heres several pictures of the animal you just said dont exist

Shadows late in the afternoon will make regular color phased mountain lions look black

Todd. You’re obviously a commie and that’s your right we’re in America. And I seen a black panther in Sylacauga in 1992 it was on some land that UAB owned and my friends dad had access and let us hunt it. Even hav a single wide we used to stay in. I’m not the only one who seen it either. Now weather anyone believes it I could care less