Strangest thing you have run across while hunting

[hogdoggintn]

There is an underground house close to where I live. It looks like a big mound of dirt in the middle of the woods with an outhouse sitting on top of it with a few vent pipes and antennas sticking out of it. The house was built by a man during the Y2K scare who believed the world was coming to an end, needless to say, he ain't from around here.   I think the man moved after he found out the world did not implode, or whatever it was suppose to do.

[boarmom]

These stories have provided enjoyable reading!

[make-em-squeel]

ok you got me i am a liar....

how were you proven wrong? I looked it up as soon as i got home and the tpw said that they dont exist. but i know what i saw. it was close enough to tell exactly what it was. And it was about a 70-80lb cat and YES it was black and about 5 foot long including his tail. police that

I am not calling any of you liars...in fact i was trying to make your point not to long ago when I/we were proven wrong. There is absolutely no evidence of any black cat ever existing in north america and very few black jaguars in central/south america but no cougars. It is considered a mythical creature by all game & park and wildlife entities... I personally was made fun of so much by muleman (head of mckinney animial control) that until one is proven to exist i choose to stick with the facts...they and big foot do not exist. However i want to make two points 1 is it still seems very possible to me and 2 is that eye witness testimony is very unreliable.

[make-em-squeel]

I have seen a few crazy things in my travels but this one seems to stand out the most. A good friend and I were Black Bear hunting on Prince Of Whales Island in SE Alaska.  We had been hunting out of a boat and beaching it in bays and hunting the slat grass flats for about a week.  One day we had hunted this flat all morning and were going to walk out and hunt the afternoon and evening in the next bay over.  We decided to have lunch on the beach and were sitting and eating PB&J sandwiches when a whole pod of Dolphins 30 or so came through the very small entrance to this bay.  They came all the way up to us in very shallow water and started to act very strainge, almost beaching them selves at times. About 2 mins later a whole pod of Killer Whales 15  or so came through the entrance of the bay and started attacking the dolphins.  The larger whales would ram the dolphins so hard they would fly out of the water 20-30 feet in the air.  They would then float on the surface where the younger whales would ram the dolphins over and over hitting them hard each time.  This went on for about an hour.  My buddy and I were just watching in silence and in almost a trance.after all teh dolphins were dead and the whales had finished they just swam off.  We looked ate eachother and were just in shock.  It was the most brutal display of force I have evr seen. Nature is cruel at times but amazeing in the same breath.  Later I aske a biologist from the ADFG what was happen ing and they said that they think the whales were teaching the young tou hunt.  Funny thing was they never even tried to eat a single dolphin that I saw.  Just killed them and swam off.  Very cool thing to see probably one of a handful of people to ever see something like that.

WOW that is a amazing sight few will ever see!!

[hoghunterdfw]

I know its just wikipedia but what I read in there pretty much sums up what I have heard regarding black "panthers" or cougars in North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

[muleman]

Big black cats in Texas.....someone please show me an authenticated picture of one here in Texas. I have heard folks say that they are black panthers, or mountain lions. But this is from wikipedia:

There are no authenticated cases of truly melanistic cougars (pumas). Melanistic cougars have never been photographed or shot in the wild and none have ever been bred. There is wide consensus among breeders and biologists that the animal does not exist

Some say they are black Jaguars. The parks and wildlife website says " It is extremely unlikely that this cat occurs in Texas" and that is for jaguars in general. much less, the even more rare "black" version of it.

The only other animal that i guess could be confused for a large black cat would be the jaguarundi. But they are neither big nor black....TPWD Describes them as:

The jaguarundi is about twice the size of a domestic cat. It has two color phases, one grayish, the
other reddish. Length of males is about 3 feet, 6 inches, of which the tail is more than half.
Considered extremely rare in Texas, the sleek low-slung jaguarundi inhabits the brush country of
extreme southern Texas in Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy counties. It reportedly eats rats, mice,
birds and rabbits. Of all the cats, this one excels in ability to spring and jump, considering its size. No
information is available on home life, growth and development. Numerous sightings of this species are
reported each year, but they are difficult to verify because of the similarity to wild house cats.
The clearing of brushlands in the Rio Grande Valley threatens to destroy its habitat in Texas.


Im not saying people arent seeing them, but i would like for someone to show me. Im just sayin....

[dub]

If I would've known it was never proven I would have shot it and drove back across the road not to leave blood on the road!

[make-em-squeel]

If I would've known it was never proven I would have shot it and drove back across the road not to leave blood on the road!

I wish you would have, might have made you some $ and defiantly got you in the history boods

[Peachcreek]

believe me i have been beating myself up every scence i pulled the trigger and missed the cat. It would have shut up alot of na sayers. and been a hella nice mount. my taxademist said the state would have taken it though.

[ETHHunters]

I cant say what kind of cat it was but me and my dad seen the cat twice while deer hunting about 20 years ago in northeast Texas. It looked just like a mountain lion but was jet black. We were sitting in the same stand and seen it twice in the same week.

[BarrNinja]

I cant say what kind of cat it was but me and my dad seen the cat twice while deer hunting about 20 years ago in northeast Texas. It looked just like a mountain lion but was jet black. We were sitting in the same stand and seen it twice in the same week.

Its a simple explanation for the sighting of these back cats. They are just "reverse" Mountain Lions.

[Peachcreek]

LMAO

Good one ninja

[Easttex]

LMAO

Good one ninja

Lol! That was pretty good. 

[UNDERDOG]

Its a simple explanation for the sighting of these back cats. They are just "reverse" Mountain Lions.

We need an "atta boy" button...    

[dub]

I started hunting real young and was told to never shoot anything black. (Because the cows were black) But now I do not care where, if I see a big black cat it is going down!

[BarrNinja]

I started hunting real young and was told to never shoot anything black. (Because the cows were black) But now I do not care where, if I see a big black cat it is going down!

Me too Warren! I have to do it for my wife and kids. I had BS called on me when I shared a story about my wife and two kids seeing a pair of black cats on the way to school several. They were in slow moving school traffic and the cats were stalking some longhorn cows with calves right off of 1488 near Magnolia!
We were all just talking about it last night. They got a good look at them and so did several other folks in our community that day.
What pisses me off is that all the time I have spent in these woods around here hog hunting, deer hunting, and varmint hunting, the only thing I have seen other than the regular local wildlife, has been teenagers erroneously parked in the woods and a few bigfoots.

[sportsman]

Cullbuck, nice pic, glad you got it,. I know that a clan in the Comanche tribe is called the antelope eater clan,that was Quanah Parkers clan, so the image could have portrayed this clans territory,they were the original west texans for years keepin the mexicans and other tribes away until the Texas Rangers showed up

[AW]

I saw what i thought was a big black cat in Ringold Texas chase a yearling deer from a feeder i know it was a bigt cat long tail and all but a guy convinced me that its the angle of the sun or shadow that make them look Black. He said they are more than likley just regular Couger or Mountain Lions but I always think if I would have got a shot i was picking up a Black Cat.

[make-em-squeel]

I saw what i thought was a big black cat in Ringold Texas chase a yearling deer from a feeder i know it was a bigt cat long tail and all but a guy convinced me that its the angle of the sun or shadow that make them look Black.

And thats why there has never been one shot with a gun or camera in history! Eye wittness testimony has alot of variables.....

[Peachcreek]

all the guys at our lease are gonna be on the look out for the BLACK cat this year and will hopefully get to ground check him. I am not a liar and know what i saw. It was not the sun angle or shadows, I saw it in two different spots and it was the same BLACK each time. It may not have been native to texas but when i looked though my 18 power scope at the back of its head all of my doubts were gone I had just shot at a black cougar, leopard, moutain lion, panther or wtf ever ya want to call it. monterquest here i come