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Post by justsand on Apr 23, 2010 17:34:20 GMT -5
ok guys this morning i headed up to green ridge rolled in around 530 got to my spot heard some gobbling way off possibly the other side of the river. about 730 i had to stretch my legs as i stood up i saw something move bout 50-60 yards down the ridge i froze. What i saw next still has me shocked i saw what i believe was a mountain lion jump on a fallen tree and then down the the cliff. I was in shock i kept re playing what i had just seen over and over again. i grabbed my gun and slowly walked down to where i last saw it and looked around everywhere for any tracks but found nothing scanned over the cliff saw nothing. Now i know western MD has bobcats but this had a longer tail and sat pretty low to the ground. now in fairness i have never seen a bobcat in the wild but this cat appeared way to large to be a bobcat.
after seeing this i left and headed to fort frederick to see my uncle who is nrp officer but his office is at fort frederick. i stopped in and told him what i had seen he called another gentleman on the radio who came down i told him and he said that while they do not believe there is any mountain lions living in MD but he said he totally belives what i saw may have been one and that it is belived there are transient lions that pass between PA MD and WV and that i very well could of seen one of them.
so no turkey but an awesome day. oh yea and saw a monster fox squirrel looked like a ground hog he was so big. got some video of him will try to post it later.
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Post by justsand on Apr 23, 2010 17:35:56 GMT -5
oh yea forgot the cat was only maybe 25 30 yards away from my hen decoy and i think he was stalking it when i spooked it standing up.
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Post by osprey on Apr 24, 2010 13:37:48 GMT -5
I wish you would have gotten video of the cat!
And did you notice anything going on at F Frederick?
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Post by justsand on Apr 24, 2010 14:42:30 GMT -5
yea market fair
never been my uncle gave me some passes and i was gonna go back up this morning but woke up to a leaking hot water heater
looked pretty cool there were a good amount of cars in the field and visitor center lot was fool. my uncle was telling me its a pretty big event every year. now last year he took me for a spin through the woods up there and that property is crawling with turkeys.
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Post by justsand on Apr 24, 2010 14:45:52 GMT -5
looks like it might be your kinda event osprey lots of period dressed folks with some cool looking muzzle loaders and i would love to play with the cannons
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Post by osprey on Apr 24, 2010 16:38:03 GMT -5
I went last year for a day, got a bunch of buddies up there camped for 4 days in full period gear! Very cool event if you're into local frontier history.
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Post by justsand on Apr 24, 2010 17:45:33 GMT -5
yea wish i could of gone today and i gotta work tomorrow
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Post by fisherboys08 on Apr 25, 2010 16:08:49 GMT -5
JUSTSAND. i have bobcats here on my property in hagerstown and a few yotes, i found a dead hen turkey in my woods friday and feathers spread along the hillside well all my cameras are broke i had the thought of heading to dicks to buy another game camera and put it on what was left of the turkey but my camera,s are not the only thing broke right now lol , well needless to say i just walked back to scout around and its gone , damn
no its been about 15 years but i have seen a guy who killed a mountian lion off of doug hill road it was freaking huge he shot it with a 22 magnum durring squriel season , he said it was stalking throught the woods and he was going to re[port it but im not sure if he ever did report it or not but i know of 3 guys that seen this cat other then myself
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Post by fisherboys08 on Apr 25, 2010 16:09:37 GMT -5
oh yeah this , was it a bobcat or was it a mt lion debate can go on forever as i have seen it on other web sites lol
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Post by morgan on Apr 25, 2010 19:11:24 GMT -5
Bobcat. I saw photos of one that was caught and released from a fox set a few years back not far from there. Populations expanding in Md, WVa, and Pa. They have a lot longer tail than most people realize.
Would not be at all suprised to hear of a fisher there as well. They are expanding East as well.
Lion ? You would have to have some pretty substanstial proof to make me believe there are any lions in Md. at all. Somebody's brother in law hearing his neighbor say a guy he knows saw what he thinks is a lion doesn't excite me much.
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Post by justsand on Apr 25, 2010 20:35:29 GMT -5
well guys like i said it happen so fast and since as i said i have never seen a bobcat in the wild just pics i could have been easily fooled but it would be really cool if it was a lion even though i know the chances are very very low that it was but either way it made for another very exciting day in the woods as most of you would agree coming home empty handed isn't always a bad thing and is a big reason i love hunting just seeing everything that is out there.
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Post by justsand on Apr 25, 2010 20:52:03 GMT -5
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Post by justsand on Apr 25, 2010 20:54:12 GMT -5
gotta turn it way up the fox squirrel is huge and was not afraid of me at all just keep yelling at me hard to tell from camera phone video but he was huge
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Post by Bartman on Apr 26, 2010 11:45:15 GMT -5
First time I ever saw a bobcat was turkey hunting in greenridge as well. He was pretty big. Came right by me. I yelped and he stood up on his hind legs looking for the noise.
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Post by bluetoe on Apr 27, 2010 11:26:35 GMT -5
I believe you saw what you saw it isn't that hard to believe a Mt lion hell I saw a coyote in Charles county 15 yrs ago and nobody believe me when I told it-- I'm 44 and been trapping my whole life and everyone said i didn't know what I saw!
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