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Orangeslice13 said:
Chattanooga Tennessee
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Most people would call you crazy for seeing a puma over here. They are naturally going back to their eastern range. This is especially bad news for the smokeys because they're scared it'll scare away visitors.
 
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Rishvol said:
Most people would call you crazy for seeing a puma over here. They are naturally going back to their eastern range. This is especially bad news for the smokeys because they're scared it'll scare away visitors.
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Several reports of them in kentucky and georgia I've seen.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
I’ve put this several places but y’all might find this interesting too. if you’re outside in Tennessee keep an eye out for kittens.
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I saw a black puma on my property several years ago. It was stalking a family of deer.

I had my .308 right on it. I seriously considered shooting it,because of a neighborhood that borders my property with many children living there. It was out hunting in broad daylight so I figured it was pretty desperate to be out in the day. But I knew if I killed it I would have been seriously fined for killing something that "didnt exist" in east Tennessee.

I called and reported it to the TWRA, but never heard anything from them.
 
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goldenvol said:
I saw a black puma on my property several years ago. It was stalking a family of deer.

I had my .308 right on it. I seriously considered shooting it,because of a neighborhood that borders my property with many children living there. It was out hunting in broad daylight so I figured it was pretty desperate to be out in the day. But I knew if I killed it I would have been seriously fined for killing something that "didnt exist" in east Tennessee.

I called and reported it to the TWRA, but never heard anything from them.
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You would've been the first with a confirmed black puma sighting. I don't think they have an allele that would allow them to have a solid black coat. Not saying they don't but I have read anything about it.
 
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goldenvol said:
I saw a black puma on my property several years ago. It was stalking a family of deer.

I had my .308 right on it. I seriously considered shooting it,because of a neighborhood that borders my property with many children living there. It was out hunting in broad daylight so I figured it was pretty desperate to be out in the day. But I knew if I killed it I would have been seriously fined for killing something that "didnt exist" in east Tennessee.

I called and reported it to the TWRA, but never heard anything from them.
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I watched a thing on tv about big cats being spotted in the eastern US. One guy was told by the dnr in virginia that they didn't exist. He said fine, that he'd just shoot it. They then told him he'd be fined. He asked them how there a law, and fine against something that didn't exist.
 
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Rishvol said:
You would've been the first with a confirmed black puma sighting. I don't think they have an allele that would allow them to have a solid black coat. Not saying they don't but I have read anything about it.
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I totally get what your saying. You know how you see something that isn't supposed to be and then you start questioning yourself?

Well, I did the same thing here, but there were 4 of my family members with me and witnessed the same thing.

There were 2 bucks, several grown doe, and several fawns in the field. The black cat was laying at the edge of the field beside a clump of thicket stalking. The tail of the cat was as long as the body and in comparison to the deer it was as long/big in comparison.

The bucks were approaching the cat with horns down and bobbing there heads and stomping, but at a safe distance.

I had time to get my scoped gun and watch this transpire.

After really thinking about the situation I wished I had shot it, drug it to the house, and told the TWRA I shot in self defense due to it stalking my playing daughter in the yard. There is a self defense rule even though they dont exist in east Tennessee.

I also have one more panther story. When I was 6 or 7 I had a black cat named Tito (I was a Jackson family fan at that time, so whatever). The cat lived at my Grandmother's which is the same place as my prior story. My grandmother said she heard a screaming noise one night like a woman screaming. Later on she heard a noise of Tito in a fight with something. She said she opened the back door to find a huge black cat after Tito. She said the cat made one swipe of its paw catching my cat in the back quarter of its body. She screamed at the cat and it ran off. But once she got out to my cat it was damaged so badly the Vet had to remove it's back leg.

So, I had a 3 legged cat named Tito for many years as a child. I still remember the stitches on that cat's back haunch.
 
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There's still the Florida Jaguar. They have the black allele that allows the black panther coat. They have been spotted up the Atlantic coast all the way up to New Jersey. Complete possibility that it was a Florida Jaguar or a released pet. Also, cougars so exist in East Tennessee. Gobment don't want people to find out because it could lower the number of people who visit the Great Smokey Mountains. Though with the abundance of prey with no real apex predator it's completely probable for the Felinea puma to comeback to the Eastern United States
 
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hog88 said:
Paddled the Caney Friday (no generators running all day) from the dam to Betty's Island. Ran into a bachelorette party about 1/2 mile in and that made the day quite interesting. Sorry no pics.
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You should have called me bro....when you going again?
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Been invited to a cabin on private property that has a 200 Achers lake, on Saturday. Looking forward to not catching fish like a champ
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I've got one of those Akers lakes by me but I don't know the number that comes with it
 

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The title says post pics. I didn’t see a pic in a mountain worth of posts. Here’s the Nolichuckey, near Embreeville.
 

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From a week or so ago, lagging behind my ladies in Sequoia NP.

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Orangeslice13 said:
Thank the lord Bill is here with pics.
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Yea. Lots of talk of some amazing places the past couple of pages. Far cooler than the nolichuckey river, but I’m simple army folk. OP said post pics. I’ll search for my own Achers Lake when I go back to DC
 
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