Hunter Survives Mountain Lion Attack

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You'd be surprised at how close you have been to cats out in the wilderness.

I watched a documentery on cougars. They will lay up next to hiking trails and wait for deer to use the trail and pounce on them. Sometimes they will only be ten yards or so off the trailes on the high side.

About a month or two ago a guy way hiking in Montans and was attacked by a young cougar, he was lucky the cougar was young. He ended up strangling the cougar to death.

Two women got killed by cougars earlier this year one about twenty miles east of Seattle (North Bend area) and another down by the Oregon border.

That is one reason to alway carry a sidearm and have it easily acessable.
Then you have the tweekers out there cooking their meth and pot growing fields.
Here about a week ago down in Oregon a couple was murdered at a gravel shooting pit.
They are not releasing many details about it yet.
 
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Going into the wilds without a firearm is silly.

I recently had an interaction with a couple up in the mountains. We were both on trail at this point walking dogs. I called my dog back and put her on the leash and stopped and said hello. They did not leash theirs and wondered why my dog was not super friendly when theirs committed sniff assault on mine. Anyway, hipster fellow says, while smirking, "So, what do you need the gun for?" referencing the RBH 45 LC in my holster. I looked him straight in the face and said, "Well, we're up in the mountains a long way from the police and there are crazy people out here with guns" and then gave him what I hoped was a creepy smile. Nose-ring girlfriend definitely got it and they beat a hasty retreat. Hopefully, I converted some socialist peace-niks into gun owners...
 
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Anyway, hipster fellow says, while smirking, "So, what do you need the gun for?"
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My answer has always been "Well hopefully I don't. But you never know." And if that isn't clear enough, I'll explain that I doubt I'll need my first aid kit, knife, firesteel, water filter, or extra clothing..... "but you never know." Some people simply lack imagination when it comes to negative possibilities.
 
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My answer has always been "Well hopefully I don't. But you never know." And if that isn't clear enough, I'll explain that I doubt I'll need my first aid kit, knife, firesteel, water filter, or extra clothing..... "but you never know." Some people simply lack imagination when it comes to negative possibilities.
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Yes, I've used "Well, I have car and homeowners insurance as well" in the past, but it seemed to subtle for Boris and Natasha.
 
I gave my BIL a game camera when he and my sister moved to Colorado. He sent me a photo shortly after that. He had been cooking on the grill and after dark it caught a kitty sniffing around his grill. Looked like it’s back was about as high as the grates.

Not sure where that photo went but you don’t have to be in the woods there to come across wild animals.

He sent me this one last year.

 
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