50+ thread

Another WTF.
I think I'm done helping
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/high-idle.654690/#post-22806025

 

I learned my lesson on that quite a while ago

 

Now cut it out @Tacoma Mike , you know they "want" your wisdom BUT need to change it to fit "their world"

Sort of like "Buy -outs" , you are only needed till your NOT....

Stop sending that DAM cold air my way..... If I want 40's I will ruin your day and "Trip on up to Maine"

 

I have seen 3. It is not a comfortable feeling. It was great to see them don't get me wrong but when you think these cats can take down a full grown Mule deer as easy as you house cat takes a bunny it's a little unnerving.

And they do it once a week or so.

 

You tried.
Like you said, Don't over think it.

 

Thank you Lisa. I remember the outhouse story; but not when you told me it.

 

Sure you do.

So I'm out quail hunting. It's 1994, I've got a shotgun with bird shot and a 9mm on my hip the first 5 rounds are snake shot. It's been a good day. I'm in rural Arizona, it's October, and I'm on my way back with 7 large birds. I cut through an arroyo on the White House Ranch (10 miles north of Benson) and run into a gigantic cat.

I mean HUGE. She's gotta be 200 pounds easy.

"ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck"

I am holding the shotgun two handed, and the three rounds of #7 ain't gonna do shit to this cat but piss it off. I slowly start reaching for the 9mm when she hisses at me, turns around, and saunters off.

"Breathe. Just breathe."

I relax, turn around, and I'm 20 feet from the biggest fucking bull I've ever seen. I know this bull. He has one horn up and one horn down. He's called "Ace" because he was founf after a thunderstorm surrounded by 5 dead coyotes."

"ohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuckohfuck"

 

Can I assume from the fact that you're still here that you choose to hunt with at least one person who runs slower than you?

 

Good morning friends, and Andy too.

Getting my gear together for another trip out to see the Monkey in the Mountain. High winds last couple days mean drifts again. So Bear and are riding shotgun in the Jeep again and I'll be playing winch monkey. Trail condition report is bad, but I'm starting to think the locals reporting dramatize it a bit 'cuz they live out there. We'll get in, might take a while...see can we beat the 3 1/2 hours it took last Thursday. I need to make a tally card to keep track of winchings this time.

Top shelf in utility room...and thanks.

Nope, not gonna look.

Mike

 

Cool story Bro.



I kid ... Morning Cap

 

Thanks & Yes Ma'am

 

No cows or calves around. He looked at me like I wasn't worth the effort and walked away.

When I told the story to the ranchers later (they paid $25 a tail for coyotes) they told me about Ace's protective tendencies and that he was to be avoided when he wasn't alone. He didn't give two shits about me - he was watching out for the cat.

 

You don't look any better so I think an extra day to be sure.

 

There's many sightings of Mtn lions here in Socal even up here in the High Desert . I remember having a very close encounter with a Mtn lion 40 some years ago during a backpacking trip in the Eastern Sierras . I was hiking along a trail heading down towards a lake when I heard the familiar growl from above me along a ridge

I found a large branch along the trail and started hitting trees and boulders and yelling and after about 10 minutes it ran off and never heard seen it again

 

Morning !!!!!!!

 

That's what I thought, didn't want to say anything.

 

Sure you did.....
You just wanted to look over my shoulder and giggle at him

 

I swear I saw one once. I was driving at night and saw what appeared to be a large cat like animal run across the road at full stride about 200' away. It had a tail like a mountain loin.

We had one killed on the Merrit Parkway a few years back but the State denied they live in the state and someone must have "released it". @bucktales - that one was down your neck of the woods.