Sorry. I will accept whatever penalty is imposed.
Sorry. I will accept whatever penalty is imposed.
Oregon deputy kills cougar threatening family after mom forced to leave sleeping infant inside car
https://apple.news/A-eJk2UNET-qRDnASA5IirA
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
I read about that one - holy cow! I'm glad that deputy was able to help out.
Video captures five mountain lions hanging out together in California
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...g-out-together
Last edited by Clusterfrack; 01-17-2020 at 04:36 PM.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
When I was at 7th Infantry Division (LIGHT) at FT ORD, we were on a field exercise on the West Coast (probably FT Hunter-Liggett) and we had multiple Cougars probing the perimeter of my TOW Platoon at night. We only had a few NVGs (early 80s) and kept an eye on them. No one was inured through the course of the night - Cougar or Soldier - but for once I had no issue with Soldiers falling asleep on "duty" during the night training exercise.
My mom has seen daylight photos of a cougar on the west side of the island where I grew up, which means they now range over the whole place. Maybe one corner that's an undeveloped park separated from the rest by a couple miles of suburbs would be unlikely, but it's reasonable to assume you could be tracked anywhere else.
When I was a kid, kids could go out in the woods in small groups or even alone and had nothing to worry about. Biggest predators were coyotes, and the only things that needed to worry about them were house cats out at night.
Times change.
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Not another dime.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
I read all 9 pages and then came back to the original post. Liked and identified with the reaction you had to the threat. No cougar interactions but this fall we were walking our dog. Came up to a house while we were on the side walk, two large dogs barking at us and our dog and jumping on the fence. Then they ran behind the house, thought that the owner called them inside. They met us on the other side of the house. This side had a gate and with the both of them pounding on the fence the fence gate popped open. They did a quick glance at each other like they couldn't believe the gate opened then they both looked at my wife, my dog and I and charged.
Interesting what actually happens even if you train. The wife absolutely froze in her foot steps, raised both hands and screamed a blood curdling squeal. I cleared my cover garment, put my hand on my gun and reacted to the threat. Then both dogs slowed down and their body language (tails both wagging like crazy) showed no threat and the gun never came out.
Still something that is hard to tell what you will do in reality when the need arises. Didn't want to shoot a man's two dogs in his front yard, but we were on the sidewalk and had no intentions of being a chew toy either.
Have to find a way to get my wife out of the panic / freezing / screaming mode and into action. It was nice to see that I was ready, willing and able to react in a timely way without setting up a meeting to make a joint decision. There was threat recognition and action.
Thanks for sharing your story. The discussion on the cougar sighting is cool, but really like the discussion on threat recognition and what really happens.
Last edited by Clay1; 01-19-2020 at 11:47 AM.