Pumas, do they exist?

[KWhorenet]

Definitely NOT the one we have around here.

Will see if I can dig it up on YouTube's

This one if you were alone out in the bush and didn't know what it was would give anyone the heebeegeebees scared the fook outa me first time.

OK so I thought it could be the female Barking Owl. The scream not hoot type call.


Bloody fox

in the still of the night out here its truly blood curdling

https://youtu.be/zk1mAd77Hr4

[Gwion]

It's the feral dogs howling while you're trying to settle in your bivvy that sets me on edge. Never heard any bird or other critter that bothered me.

[Title_II]

Is Afrattner here? He saw a panther in Oz:

http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=103740

I've run into a bunch of cougars in Old City in Philly. Also at some creepy hotel basement bar in Bethesda.

[beerd]

It's the feral dogs howling while you're trying to settle in your bivvy that sets me on edge.

Sweet dreams

[Gwion]

haha... Yup... that's when i feel like a real twat and sleep with a dirty big knife and a tommy axe next to my pillow!!!

[Title_II]

haha... Yup... that's when i feel like a real twat and sleep with a dirty big knife and a tommy axe next to my pillow!!!

What do you do with your gun? Do you have to bring a safe hunting? I just read some weird thing about traveling and needing a safe. But obviously you said axe and knife and not gun for a reason. What do you do with your guns when you are hunting and go to sleep at night?

[Gwion]

Guns need to be kept safe (locked in the car, usually), but i was talking about fishing in the mountains when i didn't have a licence. I haven't been remote country hunting as yet (walk in), so not sure about the ins and outs of rifle storage in those cases (legalities, that is).

Besides, being woken up by a dog or two trying to pull you out of bed; i'd rather have a knife and a tommy axe next to my head than a rifle to fumble about for!

PS: lived in Tassie the last 4 years... no feral dogs to worry about here... this was in NE Vic., dogs everywhere!!!

[OODAH]

I've got a mate who swears black n blue he was attacked by a cat the size of a Lion in the middle of the night while he was in his swag sleeping, he didn't see it but heard cat like fighting after he scared it off.

[OODAH]

Bush stone curlew.

I heard these birds for the first time on my trip up to Cape York, the noise is very eerie, the locals called them storm birds.

[happyhunter]

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[Hammo]

Bush stone curlew.

I know the Curlew and although their cry is something like a child like wail, it is nothing like a blood curdling scream.

[Xerox]

No, they don't exist because if they did I would have shot one by now

Careful, that's when they get you. When your guard is down