Ducks4brkfast said:

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cupofjoe04 said:

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Ducks4brkfast said:

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This was the lion recently spotted a couple times in Plano

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You mean the one on the cam in the backyard in Frisco? Longview is like 150 miles from there. I think it's more likely this is just an East Texas lion.

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I'm just reiterating what TPWD biologists believe it to be.

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This. I've been saying they were out there for 30 years and no one believes me. So I stopped saying it.

Hard to deny this one!

Spot on CupofJoe...story to tell you Ags

Took the BSA into CO Camp Alexander, NW of Colorado Springs, located in the Pike San Isabell National Forest believe around 2005. Anyway..camp superintendent had a picture on his office wall. A mom had taken a picture of her son and another boy right next to some bushy area and a tree. Went home and had it developed (yes young ones, that was the way it was done in ancient times). When she went in to pick up her picture the guy on duty told her it was a great shot and did you see what was in the bushes? About 5' behind the kids was a large lion intently watching. She had him blow it up and sent it to the superintendent for him to see and use for educational purposes.

Bottom line, they are there and see you and you rarely see them.

Man I would love to see that pic to show my son that went to Camp Alexander

I saw two on the King Ranch right out of college. Both were crossing one of Exxon's paved lease roads. I saw another on the ranch that offset the King. I was shutting in about a dozen wells in the late afternoon and checking the BHP the next day. I recruited a young engineer from Mississippi State to get out and shut them in while I drove. He was fascinated with turkeys. We ran a bunch off the road heading to a well. After we were heading back to them he believed he could catch one if I would stop.....which I did.. He ran about ten yards and they all took off and he threw a 18" Stillson wrench at them. As he was looking for the wrench I yelled, "Look out for snakes!

He looked up and his facial expression changed. I looked down the road and a mountain lion's head was sticking out of a culvert on the lease road. He was stalking the turkeys.

Ten years or so later he bought the land above Taylor Park Colorado where I have elk hunted for forty years.Only two have been seen up there.

About ten years ago he invited a bar friend to come up. The guy catered large events of 1000 t0 1500 or so people....he loved to cook didn't want to hunt.

My friend and I went up in August to work on his place. We decided to make him a place to hunt.We picked out four trees and made shooting rests were he could shoot left, center or right. we brushed it up, put down a big sheet of plywood and added a office chair where he could roll around. It looked over the Illinois creek drainage area. it was less than a 1/4 mile from the cabin. We have ATV paths for a mile or so behind his blind.

On the first day a bull moose walked in front of him about 25 yards away....looked at him and walked downhill and out of sight. A little while later he heard something and the moose was behind and closer. It started snowing and after the moose moved on he packed up and walked back to camp. We talked him into going back that afternoon. Ten minutes later he was back with pictures of tracks on the path to the blind following him. He came back two more years but never left the deck area.

About three years ago we found a game camera on that ATV path which is private land. We took the chip out....got a good video of the owner, a bull elk, a huge mule deer and a mountain lion.

On Nails Creek that crosses Hwy 77 just north of the Giddings High School, a big cat has visited that area for years. Has killed at least 2 deer, a very large buck that was in velvet in a deer feeder pen. A big doe. And a month old Brangus bull calf.
There are more big cats now than ever. And hunting them is quite difficult. They travel a large area that they claim, coming through our place just a couple times a year.

Had one come through our place in Lee County 15ish years ago. Dad supposedly briefly saw it. We found some feral barn cats literally torn in half in an old run down barn. Game warden said it was a smaller female based off track sizes

daryl gersch said:

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On Nails Creek that crosses Hwy 77 just north of the Giddings High School, a big cat has visited that area for years. Has killed at least 2 deer, a very large buck that was in velvet in a deer feeder pen. A big doe. And a month old Brangus bull calf.
There are more big cats now than ever. And hunting them is quite difficult. They travel a large area that they claim, coming through our place just a couple times a year.

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There are probably what? A million game cams in Lee County and not one time has a lion been seen in Lee County? Seems super sus.

I think they are cool. I would have let that cat cross the road. I don't know why people have to drive.

Both my dad and father-in-law have seen one on their places in Anderson County. They are all over East Texas.