First Lion Encounter

[D buckhunter]

A guy on our lease seen one by his feeder a couple of years ago, it was during bow season. We hunt 6 miles sw of Bangs.

[okrattler]

Dang that's so awesome. I'd love to see a big cat coming to a call at least once in my life.

[Throwin Darts]

Dang your buddy that called you off that shot owes you one!

[texan16]

Heck of a deal. I cant imagine what was going through your mind when that flashlight beam hit that cat up in the tree. Cool stuff for sure.

[Killer]

That is a big cat your buddy killed!

[Sky]

A guy on our lease seen one by his feeder a couple of years ago, it was during bow season. We hunt 6 miles sw of Bangs.

That's extremely close to where I hunt.

[Sky]

That’s awesome you seen one. Similar experience happened to a buddy of mine. He knew one was in the area, he stared off with typical sets of prey distress and the lion came in. Much like yours it bolted off, so he switched it up to female lion in heat and it ended up coming back like a rocket.



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Ill I had was bobcat sounds, I figured it wouldn't come to that so we didn't even try it. Maybe we should have..

[Drycreek3189]

I used to hunt near Ballinger, not that far from Bangs. Three of us saw one try to cross the county road in front of us in the middle of the day. Nobody said anything, so I waited a few seconds and asked “Well, I know what I saw, what did y’all see ?” ........Lion !

It looked to me to be about half grown, and it was definitely a long tailed cat, but we never saw any evidence of it after that. It was a couple miles from my lease.

Keep trying, maybe you’ll get it !

[Backwoods101]

Cool story. I wonder what % of outdoorsman can say they laid eyes on a cat?

[gekko man]

I had an encounter in Tom Green County near Christoval around 2005.

It was like seeing Bigfoot! It happened quick and he was gone!

[Dale Moser]

Sounds really close to my buddie's place. How far and what direction from Trickham?

[Jspradley]

Cool story. I wonder what % of outdoorsman can say they laid eyes on a cat?

At least 35% will say they have, it was big and black and they know what they seen't!

[MRWHITE87]

Just be careful with who you get to mount it when/if you DO get it.

There have been some.... INTERESTING cat mounts posted up here recently...

[kumathebear]

Just be careful with who you get to mount it when/if you DO get it.

There have been some.... INTERESTING cat mounts posted up here recently...

So true!! Like many, some of the WORST Pathetic taxi mounts are of the cats! I've never commented on someone's post when it's obviously poor work, not my place.

I've never seen one in person, rather tracks but it does make one pause getting to the stand, lol! We do have several documented sightings where we hunt near Robert Lee and a big Tom was run over a year past near Water Valley.

[Txfire409]

Awesome story. I saw one in broad daylight last year while hunting the LRGV Teniente tract. The spot I was hunting was a half mile walk in and while I was walking out after one of my morning sits I saw something move to my right at about 15 yards. I stopped to watch as it trotted off into the trees and at first thought it was a hog but after seeing the ears and tail I knew exactly what it was. It was a bow hunt but I always have my glock 10mm on my hip and my hand instinctively went for it but I didnt draw. The cats back was almost level with the top of the grass so I questioned myself as to what I just saw whether it was a bobcat or a lion so I walked into the grass about where I saw it and the grass was above mid thigh. Needless to say after that I was a little nervous while walking in or out in the dark.