I was hunting alone in a treestand one morning earlier in the season. It was the first or second week of October. My stand is right along the Iowa River in Han**** County. Across the river I saw movement, so I watched it intently trying to figure out what it was. As it got closer (though still on the opposite side of the river as me, a little over 100 yards), I started to get a little scared...it was not a deer..not a coyote..but a mountain lion. The thing was HUGE. People don't believe me when I tell them, but it was tan colored like a deer, but low to the ground, long long tail, and had a gait so smooth it looked like it was on roller skates. Now, I've just heard a few weeks ago that there have been confirmed sightings in the area I saw it. Honestly I was half hoping for it to come close enough for a shot, but half scared that I would miss and suddenly have a pissed off cat climbing my tree!