Mountain Lion/Big Cat Shows Up In The Middle Of A Hog Hunt...

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Posted: 9/18/2017 7:35:33 PM EDT

I wanted to share this video with my hog hunting friends here in this forum. I post alot of hog hunting videos and a few days ago I had either a Mountain Lion, Cougar, or some type of Panther show up during one of my late night hog hunts. This has been a little secret of mine that I haven't shared with many people, mostly because I didn't want people around here in East Texas to think I was crazy, but I've had a Mountain Lion/Big Cat either living or hunting 100 yards from my front door for the past 8 months. In the past he's always eluded the opportunity for me to take a clean shot...until he showed up for the last time during the middle of hog hunt. From the video you'll see him amazingly jump 7 or 8 feet in the air after taking a shot to the front right shoulder. Be careful out in those fields chasing hogs guys, you never know what you might run into..

Mountain Lion/Big Cat Shows Up At A Hog Hunt...

Posted: 9/18/2017 7:59:49 PM EDT

[#1]

You didn't get it? I mean, it's rotting in the brush somewhere and you don't have pictures, a hide/head, or anything?

Posted: 9/18/2017 8:15:06 PM EDT

[#2]

man, i'm sick about it!!

Posted: 9/18/2017 8:18:45 PM EDT

[#3]

Man I'd try to get a hold of someone with a tracking dog to find that thing if it were me, might not ever get a shot at another!

Posted: 9/18/2017 8:33:21 PM EDT

[#4]

The grass that he was laying behind, I measured is two feet tall. Laying down with his head up he was several inches taller than that very tall grass. He was big, definitely wasn't a feral house cat, haha!. On thermal, it's really hard to see his size because he is directly facing me. It isn't until he jumps that you get to see how long he really is. But, before I flipped the camera on, I saw him walk over before laying down and I knew it was that Big Cat. Now it might be a panther or cougar, not really sure. I was just sad that I didn't get to recover him...

Posted: 9/18/2017 8:34:03 PM EDT

[#5]

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Man I'd try to get a hold of someone with a tracking dog to find that thing if it were me, might not ever get a shot at another!

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I wish I knew someone that had dogs. I've been looking for buzzards...

Posted: 9/18/2017 8:55:45 PM EDT

[#6]

I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since. My biggest fear is my neighbor Paul finding it dead somewhere on his property and taking credit for shooting it, haha!

Posted: 9/18/2017 11:14:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Nice video and good shooting. Thumbs way way up for that video. Haters Gonna Hate so keep hunting brother.

Posted: 9/18/2017 11:18:30 PM EDT

[#8]

Amazing!!! thanks for sharing

Posted: 9/19/2017 7:53:12 AM EDT

[#9]

Thank y'all...

Posted: 9/19/2017 8:17:52 AM EDT

[#10]

Maybe its just the camera angle but it looks like you might of aimed a little low?

Posted: 9/19/2017 8:46:44 AM EDT

[#11]

You might be right...

Posted: 9/19/2017 9:11:38 AM EDT

[#12]

And never bothered to track the cat after the shot?

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:15:19 AM EDT

[#13]

I stayed out there til 5am trying to find him and mowed 10 acres of pasture the next day just to see if I could find something. I've put in a lot of work trying to locate him. I need someone with dogs, I've been looking for buzzards but there's no telling where he is

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:43:08 AM EDT

[#14]

Might call the local game warden and see if if he can recommend someone that has dogs?

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:47:53 AM EDT

[#15]

Good idea

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:51:49 AM EDT

[#16]

All for elimination of all hogs, a big cat is another thing altogether.

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:55:07 AM EDT

[#17]

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they are way over populated in Texas because of the hogs.

@bobweever can explain.. he is a TPWD Biologist that studies them.

Posted: 9/19/2017 10:55:29 AM EDT

[#18]

Sucks that you didn't find him. What did you shoot him with?

Posted: 9/19/2017 11:21:32 AM EDT

[#19]

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All for elimination of all hogs, a big cat is another thing altogether.

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I really don't want to have to shoot a big cat. All I care about it taking care of hogs and coyotes off of my land. But, I have two young daughters, 9 and 5, and they play in the sand just a few yards were this cat hangs out. A young boy was recently bitten in the face by a mountain lion in Texas. If I was somewhere else, on someone else's property, and not close to my land or house, then I wouldn't have shot him.

Posted: 9/19/2017 11:23:06 AM EDT

[#20]

Shot him with a .223 with hog load ammo..

Posted: 9/19/2017 12:55:21 PM EDT

[#21]

On the one hand, glad to see that the area supports big cats. On the other, glad that you and yours are safe. I can't say that I would act any differently if my kids played nearby. Family first, last, and always.

I wish people on the coasts realized what has happened on this continent. Wolves, bears, cats, even buffalo and moose. If you showed up to the party in 1500, you were NOT the apex creature in the ecosystem. We forget that these days, and think it only applies to big sharks and deep oceans.

Posted: 9/19/2017 1:10:20 PM EDT

[#22]

Wise words!

Posted: 9/19/2017 1:55:51 PM EDT

[#23]

interesting video, glad you and your family members are safe and no one has been hurt. too bad you couldn't find the animal but so be it. good shooting

Posted: 9/19/2017 2:50:31 PM EDT

[#24]

Thank you!

Posted: 10/5/2017 9:38:31 AM EDT

[#25]

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I wanted to share this video with my hog hunting friends here in this forum. I post alot of hog hunting videos and a few days ago I had either a Mountain Lion, Cougar, or some type of Panther show up during one of my late night hog hunts. This has been a little secret of mine that I haven't shared with many people, mostly because I didn't want people around here in East Texas to think I was crazy, but I've had a Mountain Lion/Big Cat either living or hunting 100 yards from my front door for the past 8 months. In the past he's always eluded the opportunity for me to take a clean shot...until he showed up for the last time during the middle of hog hunt. From the video you'll see him amazingly jump 7 or 8 feet in the air after taking a shot to the front right shoulder. Be careful out in those fields chasing hogs guys, you never know what you might run into..

Mountain Lion/Big Cat Shows Up At A Hog Hunt...

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We have been tracking a black Panther on Louisiana side of Sabine River.

As of now, we are encouraging others to leave this top tier predator alone since there are plenty of feral piglets in this area to eat.

Given the thousands of acres of marsh woodlands and uninhabitable location, we can assume there is more than one panther out there.

*MY BEST ADVICE IS TO LOOK UP OFTEN FOR BOBCATS / PANTHER / SNAKES*

I have also seen an 18' Boa constrictor in a tree in the woods 20 miles North of Vinton, LA. Darn thing dropped down on a limb above me!