higgimw
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Saw it on the news this morning. He was a young male but a darn big kitty regardless. I guess their presence has been confirmed in Oklahoma. LOL.
Anyone hear about the mountain lion that got killed over by Minco?
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Wormydog1724
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They act like its so shocking.
sefentress
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OKCGC board member killed one with his crossbow near Maud, a big male @ 185#. He was watching 3 doe from his pop up blind when he noticed it crawling up on the deer from his right at about 20yds.
Matt1911
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They're around, nobody wants to admit it though.
Oldtimer
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My wife and I saw one south of Ardmore on 77going to work early in the morn. We both looked at each and said ****. that was big cat. at least 125-150#
higgimw
NOW...NOW... I want it NOW!!!
You know I had heard stories in the past about people seeing them, and seeing tracks but I never really gave it much consideration till now. If that's a young one I'd hate to have a full grown male after me.
dennishoddy
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Third confirmed sighting THIS year. The only way to get a confirmed sighting, is to have a dead cat, or a track. Visual observations don't count.
They have a range that can be up to 300 square miles, so the same cat can be observed from Ponca to OKC if it chooses to travel that far.
They are very elusive. I elk hunt in NM, seeing cougar tracks all the time in the snow. They are usually near mule deer tracks. Talking to the land owners, they have only seen a couple of them in their lifetimes, although track sightings are common.
They have a range that can be up to 300 square miles, so the same cat can be observed from Ponca to OKC if it chooses to travel that far.
They are very elusive. I elk hunt in NM, seeing cougar tracks all the time in the snow. They are usually near mule deer tracks. Talking to the land owners, they have only seen a couple of them in their lifetimes, although track sightings are common.
Wormydog1724
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When I was 8 or 9 years old, me and my friend were 'snipe hunting', playing army, and just generally running amuck in the dark. We went to his canyon and we had a handheld spotlight and we were spot lighting the cows looking for one we could try to tip over, and we see this ginormous cat, MOUNTAIN LION, crouched down, looking at us with glowing yellow eyes with its huge tail swaying back and forth behind it. We both yelled a bunch of explicitives that little 9 year old boys aren't supposed to know, and sprinted the 3/4 of a mile back to the house. Of coarse nobody believed us but we know what we saw.
Oldtimer
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I talked with a ranger from Tish area and he said he has hear of one up that way which by what dennis is saying could be the same one if they travel that far.
Bullbuster
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Mt Lion are in OK regardless of what the state game and fish folks have to say. Too many people have reported them. I hunt a place that I see tracks all the time. I know a cat track when I see one. Its the only animal I truely fear.
dennishoddy
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http://www.wildlifed...mlion_sight.htm
Official sightings on the ODW web page. I don't know where people got the rumor that the ODW says there are no cougars in OK?
They are here, and have been here. The first one killed by the train is one of our coal trains that hit it just outside the power plant where I work.
Mountain Lion Sightings in Oklahoma
The only documented cases of mountain lions in Oklahoma since 2004 are:
2004 - Radio collared male killed by train near Red Rock, Oklahoma. Came from the Black Hills of South Dakota.
2006 – Cimarron Co. was depredating on an individual's goats and was killed. Male
2009 – Tillman Co along Red River seen on trail cam on private land. Sex unknown
2009 – Atoka Co. trail cam photo on private land. Sex unknown
2010 – Cimarron Co. lion killed by hunters Male
2010 – Texas Co. Radio collared male released by Colorado Division of Wildlife in North Central Colorado on October 30, 2009 on April 3rd it walked into Oklahoma panhandle. It is now in Northeastern New Mexico.
Official sightings on the ODW web page. I don't know where people got the rumor that the ODW says there are no cougars in OK?
They are here, and have been here. The first one killed by the train is one of our coal trains that hit it just outside the power plant where I work.
Mountain Lion Sightings in Oklahoma
The only documented cases of mountain lions in Oklahoma since 2004 are:
2004 - Radio collared male killed by train near Red Rock, Oklahoma. Came from the Black Hills of South Dakota.
2006 – Cimarron Co. was depredating on an individual's goats and was killed. Male
2009 – Tillman Co along Red River seen on trail cam on private land. Sex unknown
2009 – Atoka Co. trail cam photo on private land. Sex unknown
2010 – Cimarron Co. lion killed by hunters Male
2010 – Texas Co. Radio collared male released by Colorado Division of Wildlife in North Central Colorado on October 30, 2009 on April 3rd it walked into Oklahoma panhandle. It is now in Northeastern New Mexico.
Robusto
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Bullbuster
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And if fighting back doesn't work crap yourself so you dn't taste as good. :sign0137:
Burk Cornelius
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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife introduced them back in the 70's to control the deer population.
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Oldtimer
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If I ran into one and it and I was both surprised that wouldn't be a problem..smao
Dieseltech09
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If he really did, then what he did was not legal. And you just shared it on the internet.
sefentress
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He corrected me it was actually a Sasquatch! 
dennishoddy
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Sasquatches are legal year around.
sefentress
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Better story! About 25 years ago a friends father who is a rancher just N of Wichita WR was having some strange reactions from his cattle near one of his pens. Lots of loud bawling, mooing, bellering etc, so he drives over there and sees Mr kitty. The cat crouches down and watches him and gets a 3030 slug for his trouble, upon examination he discovers it's fitted with tracking collar, hmmm. He takes the collar off and puts on top of a corner post to his pen, 4 days later 2 wildlife guys ( 1state,1 federal) knock on the door and ask him if they can look around on the west pasture and he says sure "what you want is on top of the corner post". They come back by the house and thank him, never asked anything about what it was on or where the dead cat was.
