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07-11-2007, 06:43 AM
#51
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where the ducks don't come no more
Posts: 4,420
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
ORIGINAL: renfrowridge
Here in Va the dnr has released 4 pairs of the big cats, They told use that this use to be there aria and they were bringing thm back
Here in Va the dnr has released 4 pairs of the big cats, They told use that this use to be there aria and they were bringing thm back
ORIGNIAL: Chris H
We have a black panther on our property in Varnville, SC. I was on my four wheeler riding down the edge of one of our fields when he ran out about 75 yds in front of me. About a week later, my little cousin and my uncle were coyote hunting when they saw him lazily walking on the power line. There are also plenty (some killed) at the Weapons Station in Goose Creek, SC.
We have a black panther on our property in Varnville, SC. I was on my four wheeler riding down the edge of one of our fields when he ran out about 75 yds in front of me. About a week later, my little cousin and my uncle were coyote hunting when they saw him lazily walking on the power line. There are also plenty (some killed) at the Weapons Station in Goose Creek, SC.
07-11-2007, 07:01 AM
#52
Banned
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inside your Mom
Posts: 2,231
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
Ihave a friend who will just say he saw a large, black animal, with a long tail, and it wasn't a dog or hog. He won't say that it was a black panther b/c he thinks people will think he is nuts.
I also have friend who claims to have killed one while deer hunting b/c he claimed it was stalking him. I'm 99.9999% postive that he is lying.
I also have friend who claims to have killed one while deer hunting b/c he claimed it was stalking him. I'm 99.9999% postive that he is lying.
07-11-2007, 02:12 PM
#54
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 362
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
yea , im not sure bout u guys, but i just meant i saw a large bodied cat. im not sure if it was a cougar, panther, black tiger (lol), a 150 pound house cat (lol) or if it was a hillbilly dressed as a large cat. but i know me and my girl were shocked, and just like that it was gone. if i wouldnt have had my benelli nova with me, we would have been extremely scared lol. just wanted to make it clear. i dont no difference between all these cats, i jus know i saw something and i didnt think they lived in WV, maybe it was bigfoots pet lol.
07-11-2007, 05:28 PM
#56
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 65
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
timbercruiser my wife and i were going to barbour county management area at midnight one night and about 3 miles from the camp we saw a black cat on the right side of hwy 49 at white oak way rd he was about7 ft long with tail and his head was big. we hunt up there a lot and that the only time i have seen one of any kind i see a lot of big cat track but i alway figured they we bob cats.
07-11-2007, 08:03 PM
#57
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: south carolina
Posts: 133
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
I have hunted all over south carolina and North carolina.Stationed at Camp Lejeune. I have heard or scene them in the mountains around ashville and at LX sparrow in Lejeune.I also have heard them in south carolina and had one growl at me in the swamps along the river in sumter county.Mountainers in NC call them PAINTERS.
I used a turkey call at night andstirred them up onthe mountain once
in NC , mountainers didnt care for that much
I used a turkey call at night andstirred them up onthe mountain once
in NC , mountainers didnt care for that much
07-11-2007, 08:42 PM
#58
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: LaFollette, Tennessee
Posts: 492
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
Well I know lots of the ol' folks who still call them painters around here. Lots of stories about them, i've only heard one reference to "black cats". most are mountain lions. I have found some cat tracks I've showed to TWRA officers here in East TN. I have also had a couple respectable people i know who have said they've watched them distantly from their stands. When I was younger we had a big scare up towards the Kentucky line about a big cat on the loose killing some animals. I don't know whatever happened to it but it was the talk of many people awhile. Now the other story of the black cat was involving one of my close friends who lives near the state line. He lives out in the sticks with only a few nearby houses. One day his parents went to the door after hearing someone yelling and trying to knock the door down. The person on the other side was a frightened neighbor who said he was out for a jog and spotted a large "black cat" in a pasture across the road(roughly 125 yards). His mom said she saw some large cat looking thing moving into the woods when she looked but said she wouldn't want to say for sure what it was.
07-11-2007, 09:03 PM
#59
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Black panthers in the hunting woods
ORIGINAL: boss400
timbercruiser my wife and i were going to barbour county management area at midnight one night and about 3 miles from the camp we saw a black cat on the right side of hwy 49 at white oak way rd he was about7 ft long with tail and his head was big. we hunt up there a lot and that the only time i have seen one of any kind i see a lot of big cat track but i alway figured they we bob cats.
timbercruiser my wife and i were going to barbour county management area at midnight one night and about 3 miles from the camp we saw a black cat on the right side of hwy 49 at white oak way rd he was about7 ft long with tail and his head was big. we hunt up there a lot and that the only time i have seen one of any kind i see a lot of big cat track but i alway figured they we bob cats.