Posted on 07/19/2023 7:06:04 AM PDT by marktwain
The video shows an AGGRESSIVE MOUNTAIN LION “prey-testing,” an elk hunter, a predator behavior similar to bears.
The cat retreats slowly as if indifferent to the threat.
The video indicates a “prey-testing” behavior similar to that seen in bears. Predators cannot survive for long if they choose prey which has a good chance of severely injuring the predator. Predators tend to “test” unfamiliar prey. If the predator does not “test” the prey, and is severely wounded or killed, the predator will not pass along its genetics. Therefore “testing” of unfamiliar prey is highly selective.
Humans are unfamiliar prey. The “testing” of unfamiliar prey is commonly observed with black bears. Dr. Stephen Herrero wrote this about predatory black bears:
By contrast, “the kind of bear you need to be afraid of is not feeling threatened by you — it’s testing you out as a possible prey item,” said Dr. Herrero, a professor emeritus at the University of Calgary. “It’s quiet. It stalks you just like a lion might stalk you.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Nice kitty. NOT!
Just bang on a steel pan with a big spoon. It hurts their ears. Has same effect as a shotgun blast. We been doing here for a 125 years in the mountains. These people have zero experience and zero traditional teachings handed down thru families about mountain animals. They are really dumb ignorant jerks.
I don't know of any elk hunters who carry a steel pan with a big spoon along with them as a defense against mountain lions.
I suppose it may work, as long as you have the ingredients with you. It seems the loud noise of the pistol shot worked well.
Two misses? Hunter needs more range practice.
So you go armed with a steel pan and a big spoon, when you go into potentially dangerous territory?
Are we certain there wasn’t an ‘alleged’ Glock deployed? 😉👍
It is harder to shoot accurately with one hand holding the phone for video recording, and half the attention used to make sure the cat is in the frame...
Coydogs will stalk you, female behind unseen, make in front, a two pronged attack mode. So you need 2 guys, one always looking backwards. Mountain lions here also stalk from behind ..you need one guy always looking behind you . 10 of us kids were stalked by a cougar one night in the cornfields but we knew where he was all the time . Behind us... safety in numbers.. we all got many many years of experience here dealing with bears, mountain lions, Wolves etc. These people who do this research are a bunch of city slickers never spent a month in the woods roughing it.. they know nothing about which they are talking...
Ok, I will grant you that. I think there is a lesson in that somewhere, lol. Maybe, put your phone down?
My grandmother always told my mother and her sisters to carry an Iron pan and a big spoon when they went blueberryin’on the mountaintop patch.
They were always a safe. Me I always bring a couple guys, dog, and rifles in addition to the pan sn d spoon. Grandmothers are always right.
Good article and video. Thanks for posting.
How in the world did the guy taking the video manage to hold the camera steady in his left hand and shoot with his right? You can tell his heart rate is really high with the heavy breathing which subsides as soon as the cat leaves.
He waited FAR longer than I would have to fire a warning shot.....and the kitty would have gotten only one warning shot from me.
A few years ago, a black bear charged her in the same mountains. Her German shepherd had roused the bear, ran from it as it charged, and hid behind my wife! My wife was carrying a book (she reads all the time). She threw it and hit the charging bear in the nose with it. The bear turned and ran the other way.
Womanhood is nothing to take lightly.
My advice for myself was to marry the smartest, most puissant, brightest, most beautiful woman I could find--making sure she was in love with me--and then treat her very, very, very, very, VERY, VERY, VERY WELL! Give her EVERYTHING, and she'll take care of me very well.
So far it's paid off.
What do you mean “supposedly?mygrandmother and my mother did it 100 years ago...don’t talk the talk if you haven’t walked the walk..I been here 80 years in the mountains.. I know what I am talking about..I got bears and mountain lions , wolves, coyotes come right by my front porch..them wolves are big with big red eyes at night in the spotlight..they come up to your waist...I run like hell..
Ah yes, the obligatory iFag recording of every damn thing.
You can buy “bear bangers” online
12 gauge shotgun would not have missed.
You outrun wolves at night?
You're a better man than I am!
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