Pumas, do they exist?

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Post by KWhorenet » 12 Nov 2015, 8:35 pm

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 :shock: 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 :allegedly:

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

https://youtu.be/zk1mAd77Hr4
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Post by Gwion » 13 Nov 2015, 7:07 am

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.
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Post by Title_II » 13 Nov 2015, 7:40 am

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.
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Post by beerd » 13 Nov 2015, 9:39 am

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


Sweet dreams :lol:
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Post by Gwion » 13 Nov 2015, 12:15 pm

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!!! :lol: :o :wtf: :huh: :unknown:
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Post by Title_II » 13 Nov 2015, 1:01 pm

Gwion wrote: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!!! :lol: :o :wtf: :huh: :unknown:


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?
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Post by Gwion » 13 Nov 2015, 1:17 pm

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!!!
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Post by OODAH » 14 Nov 2015, 10:16 am

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.
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Post by OODAH » 14 Nov 2015, 10:27 am

bentaz wrote: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.
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Post by happyhunter » 14 Nov 2015, 10:34 am

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Post by Hammo » 16 Nov 2015, 8:31 am

bentaz wrote: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.
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Post by Xerox » 18 Nov 2015, 8:26 am

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


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