Any one seeing any mountain lions in the midwest??
 

my dad a couple years ago was muzzleloader hunting in illinois, right across the river from STL, and he saw mountain lion, a huge one, the funny thing is he ended up killing a 130" 9 pointer a little later in the morning :P

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yup here in SD its not uncommon anymore seeing one on the east side especially near the river

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i have seen signs but havent seen them yet

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I have seen one in IL. in the several years of bowhunting. They are not common by any standards, but they do exist;)

Dan

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There must be hundreds or thousands of them in Kentucky. Every time the subject comes up on the Ky hunting forums everyone and their daddy has seen one as well as several black panthers. I'm afraid to walk to my deer stand in the dark anymore.

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i would to i have only seen signs and i am so happy i havent seen one i would scream and run lol

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ya they tend to stay out west and down south more than up here
and kybuckhunter i would be scared also

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i would scream and scare all the deer and any other animal in a mile radius lol

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yea i no a friend of mine has 1 on camera chasing a doe. that is the only 1 i have ever heard of in OHIO we got bobcats tho n a bear or 2 even had a buffalo and a elf in my woods but no MT. LIONS

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Buckey hunter, you really have an elf in your woods!?! Santa must have not liked that one!!! I haven't perfonally seen any but my boss's wife saw one about 2 years ago by Eldon, MO (central) out in their field.

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people report them here all the time but there are none around.

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PA has the most mountain lions.

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well PA isnt in the midwest lol
this is about the midwest

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You guys must be seeing "feral cats", not mountain lions. I believe the Wisconsin and Michigan DNR says that "there aren't any mountain lion/cougar in this area" and we know they'd NEVER lie tous right? Now excuse me, I have to get back to wondering what I'mdoing wrong becauseI'monly seeing about one deer per five huntsin my Earn-a-Buck unit in this severlyoverpopulated state. Thank you.

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haha thats crazy
cause feral cats are as tall as mountain lions and as heavy
my dad watched it for about ten minutes in his stand
and that sucks with the one deer in an earn a buck area

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i dont hunt the midwest but my wife saw one here in Tx the first weekend I ever got her to deer hunt with me a couple years back.... She hasn't been back since.

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ya i bet sightings have ruined other people that have seen them in an area that they hunt, even if its a good area

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Ive seen one near Warrensburg, Missouri last year. i saw him crossing a field into some timber. funny thing is, when we saw the landowner he said "if you see a mountain lion let me know, cause he killed one of my ponies." We didnt mention a thing to him about it until he mentioned it. Me and my buddy looked at each other like "oh s*^%".
Another friend of mine caught one on his video camera, sent it in to the MDC, and they said "all we can say is it is not a house cat."

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haha
but your name would drive my dad and brother crazy
my dad is guiding at the best farm in missouri, i swear
all day you have drake mallards floating 10 yards in front of the blind
my dad will hunt there about 40-50 days this year
the farm borders otter slough conservation area and this farm is all cypress, the dry part is some of the best deer hunting around too
the ducks love the flooded cypress there though

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Elf? Lol! Had to give ya some sh-t! None here in Minnesota that i have seen but there havebeen reports of loud screams that were said to be mountain lions here in central Minnesota where i live. I'm also pretty sure a few years back that i seen a track of one where i hunt.

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my old mans guides ducks on a farm in the bootheel of missouri
best duck spot in the midwest
i would put it up against any place
but i was bowhunting a slough down there and it was a dry spot in the slough that was tore up with deer sign
but mixed in with the deer sign there was also some bear tracks

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Menominee County, MI (U.P.) sighting. Neighbor got a late start for an evening hunt and decided to do some scouting over a small clover plot behind his farmhouse (100 yards from back door). Afterviewing a few skittish does approaching the clover, he noticed movement on an inside corner andglassed (what he thought to be) a bedded doe moving its head in the shadows. Watching intermittently for approx 10 minutes, the animal stood-up and worked its way into the corner of the field. In the failing light, he thought to himself that it was a large wolf, until it turned broadside and he saw its long tail. He proceeded to glass the cat as it stalked for another 20-30 yards before shooting after a doe. When questioned directly whether it was a bobcat, etc he confidently pointed to the full-body mount of a Colorado lion (on our cedar rafter) and simply stated, "no one will convine me otherwise - that is exactly what I saw!" Good enough for me.

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Got one on the trail cam up here in Crivitz, WI. Northeastern part of the state. Dont know much about it, just saw the pictures off the neighbors camera.

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I haven't seen one, but I believe I heard one while putting up my stand at 5:30 am a few weeks ago (alone, with only a bow ) in the mountains of Virginia (Rockingham County). Sounded likeit was about 40 or 50 yards ahead of me in the dark. Screamed so loud it almost hurt my ears, which is why I think it was a mountian lion (and, yes, I know a coyote when I hear one...I hear them almost every timeI hunt that mountain). Scared the heck out of me, but I went ahead and hunted the stand all day. Only saw two deer all day in that stand[&:]. I know two other people who have seen a mountain lion on this same mountain. One of em ran alll the way down the mountain when he heard it:D!