Cool!

I am not surprised. But then, all of you here already know why I am not surprised.

I have heard second-hand stories of some hunters seeing one in our county this fall, but not in recent weeks.

I have seen nothing and heard nothing in weeks and weeks and weeks now, and I like it that way. : )

Looking forward to seeing the photo.

Dawn

That picture was taken in south Texas where they have a healthy population of mountain lions. I don't even need to see the picture to know which one it is. That is how much this picture has made the rounds.

You can find that specific picture on this board from a thread a month or two ago.

It is worth noting that a few weeks ago in the UP of Michigan they had their first ever mountain lion picture taken by trail cam and they have since found other evidence of at least that one lion. That is a significant event. Also, in Nebraska they probably have more than 100 trail cam images of lions, and hunters encountered two during gun season. It was only a decade or two ago that they had no resident populations there. No such luck with pictures here, though.

Scott... show me the link. I've been logging on here for months and don't remember seeing it. If it's the same photo, then it's as you say but my son knows nothing of this ongoing debate. He was just showing me a photo that was supposedly collected by a friend. He nor I have nothing to prove.

Breasley I have seen the picture Scott mentioned. But was waiting till i saw the one you saw first before I commented. I know you are just posting what you wer told. And before seeing it I don't feel it is fair too comment. Because I know there is other pictures out there besides it. I was shown one from a trail cam here in KS this fall and although the cat has a deer they are totally 2 different pictures. And easy to tell apart. I doubt many have seen it as I understood they didn't even report it. So I know there is other trail cam pictures out there. The one from TX has made the rounds though I will admit. Jay

I just Googled "Mt Lion with buck" and sure enough...same picture as the one in Texas, Pennsylvania etc.. I guess lots of folks have to bloviate these days. I stand corrected!

Oh, well. At least when people 'rip off' images off the internet and pass them off as their own, it is easy to google and catch them at it.

I saw it a month ago or so as one taken near Locust Grove here in NE Oklahoma. I did some searches and found it was really from S Texas. I was certain it was the Texas one because of the description. There are a lot of others that also make the rounds from state to state, but not many carrying an 8pt buck like that! It is a great pic!

Maybe I will post a few of my pictures of bucks taken since I got my camera. I can't get enough of impressive "backyard" wildlife pics.

Scott,

Our local weekly newspaper had a photo of the deer from the 'deer attack' here in Love County on the front page of the November 27, 2009, edition. It was a 6-point 122-lb. buck. Our local paper, The Marietta Monitor, is very small and doesn't have a website or I'd link it so y'all could see that deer. In that photo, he's standing near the front door of the house.

I know a few more details now, including the fact that the deer followed the woman into the garage and, as her husband tried to get the deer off of her, one of its' antlers became entangled in the man's belt and that is why the deer dragged the man down the driveway. Even after the man was able to separate the antler from his belt, the deer followed the couple back to the garage where they tried to fight it off with a sledge hammer and some tree pruning loppers. They are an older couple (I know this because they've been married 51 years) and I am sort of amazed that all they suffered was lacerations and bruising. It wouldn't have surprised me if they'd had broken a hip or pelvis when it knocked them to the ground.

Our undersheriff, who eventually arrived on-scene and later shot the deer when it returned to the house and charged at him, said there was so much blood outside the garage that he figured someone had to be dead. He had the best quote in the newspaper article when he said "I have hunted deer, but I have never been hunted by one".

Dawn

Huh. That's odd. We had a doe attack some girls at a school bus stop once, up the road from me. The doe had been raised by hand at the dairy right behind the stop. The doe managed to clock one of the girls in the head with a hoof. My mother and I arrived and stayed with them until their ride came by.

It impressed on me that deer can be dangerous.

We really need to get our night camera set up. We live south of Bixby in NE OK and have seen tracks and heard it. I have never seen it, although my 20 yo daughter saw it with the neighbor's goat herd. This is a herd of 200-300 goats on several hundred acres.

We've seen and heard the bobcats, but the mountain lion was completely different. My husband and I were outside about 1 am, and the horses surrounded us and stared into the woods. We got quiet, because we thought it was coyotes or wild dogs. Then we heard it. I looked it up on Youtube the next day, and compared mountain lions, bobcats, and fisher cats. It was a female mountain lion in heat! Not what you want to hear. I got my new 20 gauge the next day, along with an intensive lesson about shooting, loading, etc.

We rarely see tracks, or know that it's around. So far it's left us alone, but with several neighbors having goat farms, and all the deer around, there's a lot better and easier things to eat, I think!

I guess they are making a comeback, and with it being a female, it can't be blamed on a "rogue male" wandering hundreds of miles off-course. From what I've read, females don't wander like that.

Shelly

I'm also south of Bixby. There are hundreds of trail cameras (including 2 of mine) up in these areas from Coweta to Leonard to Bixby to Beggs and nobody has gotten a picture of one yet. None in the entire state in fact. Maybe soon.