Panthers? Where??

[WRM]

There's been some "close encounters" with bears the last few years in Eglin. In particular one that wanted a deer kill really bad and ran the archer off as he was dragging it to truck. Bear drug deer off and hid it in a deadfall. I had an absolute brute come under my stand a couple years ago, but, man, as soon as he detected me he kicked it in high gear and vamoosed. I DO NOT want to encounter one of them on the ground in the dark!

 

[NavCorman]

Area 7 a few yrs.ago before all the clear cut . Was watching a yote thru scope , he became super agitated and took off down a fire cut . I never saw a cat , but later when I got down from my stand , I went and looked around and there were some pretty good sized cat prints intersecting with the yote prints .

Not sure I know where "area 7" is, but the ones I've run into were totally unconcerned about my presence. I literally finally had to stand up and wave my arms and yell at the first one to run him off. He was about 20-30 yards from me and crouched behind a volunteer pine sapling. Had already tried to get him to leave, but he just wasn't having it. Ran into a pair in Eglin before daylight a couple years back. One of them eased off (slowly) but the other one just sat and stared at me, again at about 20 yards. Other one ran across 211 in front of me just after dark when I was coming out last year. Buddy has seen them in about that same spot.

Unit 7 is what I meant to say . This was South of Duke Field .

 

[WRM]

Unit 7 is what I meant to say . This was South of Duke Field .

Check--pair I saw were on other side of 85 just below Warrior School. So same basic area.

 

[WRM]

This is the first one I saw from BW back in 2014. Taken with an Iphone 4 and I'm not a great photographer anyway, so it's not a great pic. He's crouched down really tight trying to hide behind that pine sapling, so it's hard to get much idea of the scale. But, it is a picture of one. I was right on the edge of a just burned area.

 

[WRM]

And a bigun bear in Eglin

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

We have one cruising around our neighborhood. Looks like a big house cat/bob cat. I say that because it has pointed ears, darker in color with a long tail.

Yep, seen those at the camp.

 

[Southalabama]

Always found it strange that I’m within 3 miles of the Florida line and wildlife biologists said with absolute certainty there were no Florida Panthers in Alabama. Absolutely none. Didn’t say breeding populations. Said none.

Florida must have built an invisible panther wall.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Always found it strange that I’m within 3 miles of the Florida line and wildlife biologists said with absolute certainty there were no Florida Panthers in Alabama. Absolutely none. Didn’t say breeding populations. Said none.

Florida must have built an invisible panther wall.

Might need to give the border patrol a few tips..

 

[hunter01]

We have a similar issue where we hunt up past Luverne, AL except with cougars and wolf's. Fish and game will deny there existence, but bobcats and coyotes just don't get that big. And bobcats are clearly a different color, plus there footprint is the size of an adults fist. It's not uncommon to see one of each a couple times a year, I've been hunting the same piece of property for over 30 years and have seen the cats since I started hunting there. The wolf's started showing up about 15-20 years ago.

 

[NavCorman]

We have a similar issue where we hunt up past Luverne, AL except with cougars and wolf's. Fish and game will deny there existence, but bobcats and coyotes just don't get that big. And bobcats are clearly a different color, plus there footprint is the size of an adults fist. It's not uncommon to see one of each a couple times a year, I've been hunting the same piece of property for over 30 years and have seen the cats since I started hunting there. The wolf's started showing up about 15-20 years ago.

Inquire about the Florida Red Wolf . FWC denies their existence but we know otherwise .

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

More pix if ya got em

 

[J pace]

And then there was that time I walked up on a Bigfoot ...man that guy stunk. No but seriously everybody talks about nobody gets the big cats on game cam. Bears come to our feeders all the time they leave signs but we only get pictures of them about 25% of the time. I'm not sure why this is unless they're moving so slow the motion is not detected.

 

[WRM]

Inquire about the Florida Red Wolf . FWC denies their existence but we know otherwise .

 

[NavCorman]

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Things that make you go, Hmmm! Awesome .

 

[WRM]

Things that make you go, Hmmm! Awesome .

What baffles me is what I see in BW all appear to be coyotes. Yet, go south of I 10 into Eglin and what I see (to me) is not a coyote. I've seen many coyotes out west and the BW "models", while perhaps slightly larger than out west, are pretty clearly coyotes. What I see in Eglin clearly is much bigger than a standard "yote". See pic in post 33 above.

Why is this????

 

[lettheairout]

Always found it strange that I’m within 3 miles of the Florida line and wildlife biologists said with absolute certainty there were no Florida Panthers in Alabama. Absolutely none. Didn’t say breeding populations. Said none.

Florida must have built an invisible panther wall.

Nope. They become Alabama panthers once they cross the line

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[Southalabama]

Nope. They become Alabama panthers once they cross the line

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Nope. They become Alabama panthers once they cross the line

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Lmao. They claim we don’t have them either.

The Conecuh River flows hundreds of miles in Alabama and when it his the Florida line and becomes the Escambia River.

 

[big jon]

Ive seen and heard cats halfway between jay and berrydale Had one off my drivers watch one one morning thought it was a strange yellow lab called me and asked me about it I told him it sounded like a painter got there later that morning and sure enough cat tracks in the field right where he saw it

 

[Longtooth]

Im 99% certain I saw a Florida Bobcat in my backyard last night.

 

[WRM]

We aren't supposed to have chipmunks or copperheads here either, but we do.