This guy claims he crapped his knickers when he saw the photo the next day.
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dont blame him! where was that at?
Guessing it's a FAKE.. Mountain lions aren't known to just "stand" there while either stalking or in stealth mode. Normally they will hunker down close to the ground even in darkness, in the presence of humans. I could be wrong.. :idunno:
He and the elk are on an incline with the high side on the left running downhill to the right, the couger is standing on a reverse incline, right to left, it's fake.
This was sent to me in an email. It didn't say where the location was. This was the caption.
"Always take someone with you...who has a camera and a gun!
This guy was hunting by himself when he downed this elk. Took pictures with self-timer on his camera. States he about crapped his pants when he looked at the pictures the next morning. "
Reminds me of a bowhunting story I read about fourty years ag. A fellow, all camo'ed up us sitting on a hill side varmint calling. Something swats him on the back of the head, he ducks and turns around to see a mountain lion, that immediately takes off up the hill.
Strange things out there sometimes. I tend to believe the picture, and the varmint callers story.
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"Always take someone with you...who has a camera and a gun!
This guy was hunting by himself when he downed this elk. Took pictures with self-timer on his camera. States he about crapped his pants when he looked at the pictures the next morning. "
Reminds me of a bowhunting story I read about fourty years ag. A fellow, all camo'ed up us sitting on a hill side varmint calling. Something swats him on the back of the head, he ducks and turns around to see a mountain lion, that immediately takes off up the hill.
Strange things out there sometimes. I tend to believe the picture, and the varmint callers story.
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Gotta ask how the cat got so well exposed by the flash while brush in front of it, beside it and behind it is all too dark.
Phony as a preacher driving a luxury car. :bull:
Phony as a preacher driving a luxury car. :bull:
I saw that last fall on a bowhunting forum and they yanked it before I could copy it. I'm thinking photoshopped because there is just too little cover in front of kitty vs. what is all around that spot.
But it could be authentic. :idunno:
Here, kitty kitty!
But it could be authentic. :idunno:
Here, kitty kitty!
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Yep...
Even with a timer, he wouldn't have had time for the cat who wasn't there to all of a sudden walk into view...also I doubt a cat would calmly come in that close with someone hurrying back to get in position in time for the camera to snap the pic...
Even with a timer, he wouldn't have had time for the cat who wasn't there to all of a sudden walk into view...also I doubt a cat would calmly come in that close with someone hurrying back to get in position in time for the camera to snap the pic...
Also, kittly has a shadow line down its right foreleg but all other shadows in the image are from a flash to the left of the lens.
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Thats the biggest problem I see with it too. The angle of the cats feet and the slope angle doesn't bother me. There are spots where the terrain is uneven on any slope. I often find small depressions or level spots on steep slopes to set up my bivy sack for the night when backpack hunting. As for a photographer, most of my hunting pics are taken with a self-timer (no photographer) so its possible that the guy in the pic was the only one there. I'm still thinking photo-shop though, mostly due to the uneven lighting like Brown Bear pointed out.
Robby said:
Its not unusual for cats to come in when calling deer, elk and predators of coarse. With cat numbers on the rise more close calls with cats are being reported. The scary thing about cats is that you see their tracks but its rare to see them, even though they see you. I have only seen two in my life after literally many months spent backpacking in wilderness areas (primitive areas, no vehicles, bikes, etc) in Montana and Colorado. These are pretty remote areas. Avoiding trails I have gone up to two weeks (limited by vacation time) without seeing another person. Thats rare anymore in the lower 48.
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I have a friend that used to bowhunt. He also was a member of 101st Airborne. He quit bowhunting because he fell in a rock slide and had to have rotator cuff surgery. Because of the air drops, his knees were shot.
Okay, now for the story. He was on his last bowhunt before the fall, and his knees were bothering him so much he decided to hunt closer to camp. He found a slash pile and sat in the middle of it, cow calling. After a bit he saw a mountain lion run across the meadow he was facing. Didn't think much of it. About dark, he started back to camp, walking down an old logging road. Said he could feel something behind him, and when he turned around, a lion was walking behind him. Just as my friend turned the lion crouched down, and my friend let an arrow go right into the front of the cat. The cat ran, but they never found it.
Never say never.
Okay, now for the story. He was on his last bowhunt before the fall, and his knees were bothering him so much he decided to hunt closer to camp. He found a slash pile and sat in the middle of it, cow calling. After a bit he saw a mountain lion run across the meadow he was facing. Didn't think much of it. About dark, he started back to camp, walking down an old logging road. Said he could feel something behind him, and when he turned around, a lion was walking behind him. Just as my friend turned the lion crouched down, and my friend let an arrow go right into the front of the cat. The cat ran, but they never found it.
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I DONT buy it
Reminds me of the old feller that was fishing and told his hunting buddy that he caught a model A with the headlights still on. His buddy had told him he shot a deer behind a tree at 400 yds, an the old guy said drop that yardage down to somethin' believeable and I turn off the lights :bull: ...
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Here is the original before it was cropped into the other photo. A biologist took this picture a few years ago.
Info from: http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/stalking.asp
Info from: http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/stalking.asp
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Gee, and he looks like such an honest man. :idunno: Whats a man to believe anymore. :hmm: :grin:
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Aawww man, I showed it to my wife and she jumped. Now to find out it's not real. Had her worried, we're going camping the weekend.
An aussie broadhead maker was recently in Africa. Got out of his treestand to look for an impala he'd shot the day before. Came across his own bootprint with a leopard track on top of it! Got back to the tree just in time to see two leopards stalking him. Luckily he had a radio in the stand and called for help which arrived as the sun was setting. There's one meal that would've tasted like SH!#.
