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I love these TN mountain cougar stories! Obviously, that's why there are so many fewer deer in the mountains. At least show us pics of these snow tracks and those trail cam pics!

Some people even get offended if you are a bit skeptical!
 
Yep, I know when they were released in BSF. A friend helped transport them from GSMNP. I was mainly referring to how long it was before I actually saw one, even knowing they had been on my property for at least 15 years. So , I thought that a mountain lion could probably go undetected for years, if there's any around. I live on a farm in Crossville, we had a bear roaming our neighborhood 20 years ago.
 
BSK said:
You just made my point. You picked up bears on trail-cams long before you ever saw one. I would have to talk to the TWRA guys/gals involved, but I don't think anyone saw the mountain lions that were actually documented on trail-camera in Humphreys County in 2015-16, or Obion County the same time. If they exist, trail-cams pick them up, and usually long before anyone sees them in person. Yet mention mountain lions in just about any setting and you'll hear of dozens of people who have supposedly seen them. Heck, I've gotten into arguments with people here in my neighborhood in Nashville who swear they've seen them. What did they actually see? No idea. But it wasn't mountain lions.
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Yes they did, it's actually documented that someone shot one with a crossbow that first year and turned the arrow in to twra. @RUGER may have known the guy it seems like.
 
Rockhound said:
Yes they did, it's actually documented that someone shot one with a crossbow that first year and turned the arrow in to twra. @RUGER may have known the guy it seems like.
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I knew the guy who was hunting with the guy that shot it.
Yes after he told the story and later it was proven to be true I had to go apologize and eat some crow.
😂
 
Well, I believe in Bigfoot AND mountain lions. Even Bigfoot riding mountain lions!!!
 

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And BSK, I respect your obvious knowledge regarding many matters, however I would like to hear your explanation regarding Bigfoot being "biologically" impossible. Key word there being "biologically".
 
102 said:
I've said it before...and now once more...
I started using cell cams a couple years ago. And honestly they have never helped me kill a book buck. But they have done a great job of eliminating places I shouldn't hunt.
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What I find interesting, is those places where trail cameras tell you NOT to hunt (and if people believe that and don't hunt that area) then that is WHERE I would hunt.
 
BSK said:
Oh yes, very proud. And what I'm most thrilled with is she still wants to hunt with me. I guess for her that's part of the fun - to experience it together. I've been sitting right next to her when she shot all of her deer. Listening to her breathing getting ragged and feeling the whole 2-person ladder stand shaking from her adrenaline is too darn funny!
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Great story, except if true about the ladder stand shaking, I would be checking that stand. My stands, including the few ladder stands I have up, don't shake, creak, wiggle, etc. If they are put up properly, I nut and bolt instead of clevis pins, and strap them as if they need to survive a tornado, and they don't make a sound.
 
Headhunter said:
Great story, except if true about the ladder stand shaking, I would be checking that stand. My stands, including the few ladder stands I have up, don't shake, creak, wiggle, etc. If they are put up properly, I nut and bolt instead of clevis pins, and strap them as if they need to survive a tornado, and they don't make a sound.
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You can make a whole house shake. I don't care how well you attach a ladder stand it will have play
 
Shed Hunter said:
You can make a whole house shake. I don't care how well you attach a ladder stand it will have play
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mine don't. There is a fraction of an inch of movement, but it is not noticeable unless you are paying close attention. For sure someone moving in the stand, there is as basically zero movement. If you bump the stand with something, gun, binoculars, rangefinder, etc it will make a sound, but moving around in it, the stand does not move and makes zero noise. Yes you can "stiffen" a ladder stand to where movement is basically non existent.
 

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