Solo camping with mountain lions?

I’m old school. I hike alone on mountain trails that are 10+ miles in. I’ll go all day without seeing another person. I do carry a .357 with 180gr Buffalo Bore ammo. Yes, I know the opinions about a .357 defending against a bear but my .44mag is uncomfortable.

 

The real question here is, how the in the world are the harvesting lion piss?

 

…sissy.




https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695035064/man-who-suffocated-attacking-mountain-lion-tells-his-story

 

not really. Just reload and shoot again hard for most people I guess? Training is good.

 

Or be as brave a this girl.....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/losang...irl-fights-off-bear-rescue-dogs-bradbury/?amp

 

If you have time to reload and shoot at the bear/cougar again then you never needed to shoot at it in the first place.

 

I've frequently gone solo backpacking/camping in mountain lion county in the Pacific Northwest for years. They're ambush predators, so if your above the tree line, usually you have nothing to worry about; I've never seen any cougars above the tree line out in the open. Hiking below the tree line offers them more opportunity to pounce on a solo person from behind. What I do is completely protect the back of my neck and back of my head with my pack and extra gear on top of the pack, so they can't latch on and bite the base of your head as this is the way they usually try to kill their prey by an attack from behind. I also carry a large knife and am prepared to fight back.

 

And how many bears have charged you? That you have such vast training conducting speed reloads before a bear bitch slaps you into oblivion? Lol

I’d bet money you’d be tagged by a bear before you even get to the 10th rd from a Glock 20 lol

 

[sow slaps]

 

Yeah, 10 rounds isn’t happening. Haha.


“...the average bear attack will happen at 50 yards or less with an 800-pound animal moving at 30 mph. At that distance, a shooter has roughly four seconds to make a charge-stopping shot, which requires a steady hand under intense pressure.”

https://www.americanhunter.org/articles/2019/6/3/8-best-charge-stopping-bear-cartridges

 

Man, it's like high school math all over again.

So if a bear leaves Chicago going 30 mph, and I'm on the westbound train going 50 mph, am I badass enough to reload my six shooter before we meet?

 

Timmy Treadwell did that. They both got ate.

 

Here they eat people.

 

Timmy didn’t run, he played with grizzlys. Do that and your odds of getting eaten go way up. Sad his gf trusted that nonsense of his.

 

Where's "here"? The movies?

 

When I was but a young geology nerd, I went off-trail hiking once. There was a mountain on private land in West Texas, and it had a neat capstone formation I wanted to check out. So I parked the car on the side of the highway and went scrambling up. I was just about to reach the tree-line when I got this funky feeling. Maybe it was ghost aliens, or spidey-sense, maybe I was just fat and hungry, I don't know, the hairs on the back of my neck all stood up for no reason. I cant tell you why I did, but I decided that maybe I shouldn't be here, and started retracing my steps back down. I'm back about 100 yards from where I was before, coming up on a very small depression in the rock that had collected a layer of dust. I was chuckling because that hollow was just barely big enough to hold my perfect boot print, but when I got closer, I noticed that there was a new perfect print overlaying mine. Almost covering the entire width of my size 12, was a cat paw. Yeah, I quickly retreated to my car, making as much noise as possible along the way. I never saw a cat though.