lions & tigers & bears (almost)

[Viking]

I saw a mountain lion while driving home from the range one night... in a rural neighborhood!  Crossing the street, prowling for stray dogs/cats and vermin.

Seriously considered stopping and taking it down with my .45.  I didn't, because I was inside city limits by just a couple blocks.


But if I saw a real african lion... wow.  That'd be something else.  The desire to fill one of my "Big Five" tickets might overtake my sense of self preservation.   

Get a supressor. Then never leave home without it . Then hope you can quickly load a whole lion into your car, quickly and without being noticed .

[T.O.M.]

UPDATE:

Apparently, all that is left roaming the countryside is a timber wolf and a chimpanzee.  So all you wanna be big cat hunters, the opportunity has passed.

And, as you may expect, the locals animal huggers are already in an uproar over the fact that responding officers apparently dropped a lot of the animals, including a bengal tiger.

My bailiff is kind of pissed.  He was hoping to come across a panther this deer season.   

[Scout26]

But, but, but it was coming right at us !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2436_3BRlA

[Tallpine]

UPDATE:

Apparently, all that is left roaming the countryside is a timber wolf and a chimpanzee. 

So, ya'll have a start with wolf reintroduction 

[Viking]

I think I'd rather face a wolf than a pissed off chimp. Those little guys are wicked strong .

[kgbsquirrel]

*pauses to appraise his collection of firearms* You know, I always considered myself ready for any north American game, dangerous or otherwise, but this makes me wonder if have anything sufficient for African/Asian dangerous game.

My best choices currently in the safe:
Howa-1500 in .300 WinMag
M1 Garand and M1903 in .30-06
M1A in .308 Win
Saiga-12 with 2 3/4" slugs

Thoughts/review?

[vaskidmark]

They're down to the chimp being unaccounted for.  Good luck finding it before the snow falls and it succumbs to the cold.

Old rumors say there are spots in Florida where feral chimps be.

stay safe.

[bedlamite]

Since the big cats are gone from Ohio ...

[Regolith]

*pauses to appraise his collection of firearms* You know, I always considered myself ready for any north American game, dangerous or otherwise, but this makes me wonder if have anything sufficient for African/Asian dangerous game.

My best choices currently in the safe:
Howa-1500 in .300 WinMag
M1 Garand and M1903 in .30-06
M1A in .308 Win
Saiga-12 with 2 3/4" slugs

Thoughts/review?

Out of those, the .300 WinMag and the Saiga-12 would be your best bet.  You want big, heavy slugs, preferably going real fast.

[never_retreat]

This has some sort of wacko peta group written all over it.
The article said the cages/pens were all damaged that way the animals could not be put back in.
If this guy was nuts and going to let the animals loose and off himself why would you bother to damage all the cages?
I don't think the peta people thought the cops would kill them all. Plan went bad.

[zahc]

This is a short drive from my old home in Ohio. I'm familiar with the park, although I never went there; it's about 20 minutes from my alma mater.

The first thing I thought was that enviroterrorists set the animals loose. When I heard the guy was dead, I assumed the enviroterrorists killed him. When I heard he committed suicide, I assumed the environterrorists set it up to look that way.

It is telling that the dude was a felon and all, but that could just have made for a more attractive setup. Don't deny me my anti-enviroterrorist fantasies.

[Lee]

This was less than a mile from my friend's place where I hunt.  He's known him for years -and considered him a good neighbor, and generally a good guy, who succumbed to stress and depression. He was a veteran, a pilot (planes and helos), an avid motorcycle bulder, collector and rider, he raced boats, and was a decent guitarist.  Evidently he was a gun tinkerer as well...which led to all of this. Too bad he'll just be remembered as a lunatic.
I've known about his place for years, and always wanted to carry a magnum revolver when bow hunting down there...but never did, since Ohio laws forbids that.
Several years ago, there was a few days of panic on the norteast side of Columbus when a lioness was seen by several people (a few miles from my house).  This guy was the first person I thought about back then.  It was eventually dismissed as a semi-mass halucination or joke...but I really wonder...still. 

[makattak]

They're down to the chimp being unaccounted for.  Good luck finding it before the snow falls and it succumbs to the cold.

Old rumors say there are spots in Florida where feral chimps be.

stay safe.

I heard a report they thought a tiger ate the chimp.

[Lee]

That' s what I heard also.  He wuz wearin the wrong colors.

[MillCreek]

This makes me think.  I no longer have anything larger than .223 and 12 gauge.  Hmmm.

[RoadKingLarry]

A 12 gauge with saboted slugs is nothing to sneeze at.

[kgbsquirrel]

A 12 gauge with saboted slugs is nothing to sneeze at.

It's counter-intuitive but remember, it's sabot slugs for rifled shotgun barrels, rifled slugs for smooth bore.

[MechAg94]

UPDATE:

Apparently, all that is left roaming the countryside is a timber wolf and a chimpanzee.  So all you wanna be big cat hunters, the opportunity has passed.

And, as you may expect, the locals animal huggers are already in an uproar over the fact that responding officers apparently dropped a lot of the animals, including a bengal tiger.

My bailiff is kind of pissed.  He was hoping to come across a panther this deer season.   

Wouldn't a panther be more like to end up in the tree or deer stand with him?

[Tallpine]

So - the cops killed all the animals including the wolf to protect the public, but those of us in western states are supposed to live with hundreds of wolves running around and think nothing of it 

 

 

[Jamie B]

So - the cops killed all the animals including the wolf to protect the public, but those of us in western states are supposed to live with hundreds of wolves running around and think nothing of it 

 

 

Of course!
We are more sophisticated here, and should not be expected to actually interact with animals except for zoos! 

[Pharmacology]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/herpes-monkey-still-loose-ohio-exotic-animal-break-200156064.html


LOL!!!!


Apparently, they're afraid of a monkey with a bad rash

[Viking]

You laugh now...until you walk through a dark alley, and find a monkey there, waiting to attack you and infect you with herpes.
Also, I think "herpes" in this case might be a codeword for "Rage" .

[kgbsquirrel]

You laugh now...until you walk through a dark alley, and find a monkey there, waiting to attack you and infect you with herpes.
Also, I think "herpes" in this case might be a codeword for "Rage" .

And on that note, I need to go start setting up the palisade fence around my bug-out location. 

[LadySmith]

Most of you know how much I love animals.
This story makes me sad and mad.
No, I don't blame the police for what they had to do. They were protecting the public.
I'm mad at the animals' owner for letting them loose like that before killing himself.
I'm sad that most of the animals had to be killed, including 14 rare Bengal tigers (there's only about 1,400 left in the wild now).
What a waste all around. 

[bedlamite]

Just got word from a friend of mine in Sunbury, OH that works at the Columbus Zoo. You've probably seen the pic with the animals piled in front of the barn. They were not moved from where they were shot. Apparently they were waiting there to be let back in to their cages. I don't have a problem with hunting down the predators that took off for parts unknown, but they could have waited 5 minutes for zoo personnel before starting the turkey shoot.