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lions in tennessee

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:11 pm
by TNBearhunter
i live in east tn and i heard of a few lion sightings round where i live . just wondering if anybody else had heard of them round these parts or seen them.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:57 am
by Arkansas Frog
do you boys run any hogs over there?

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:00 am
by TNBearhunter
never run any with dogs but i killed one deer hunting last year.It weighed around 200 pounds the tusks were about 3 inches long.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:19 am
by Arkansas Frog
How did you get them b. cats trap or cur? they look like our cats in Arkansas, don't bring a lot I trapped for several years here was raised over the mountian from you near Boone.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:21 am
by TNBearhunter
here it is.

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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:25 am
by TNBearhunter
me and a buddy trapped the cats by mistake, trying to catch coyotes.

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:40 am
by Arkansas Frog
I would like to make that mistake all day long and cat is a lot easier skinned,or do you sell them to running pens we did for 50 bucks each.
but their feet could not be messed up,

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:58 am
by TNBearhunter
never sold any just trapped as a hobby while i was layed off from work.

tnbearhunter/lion in tn

Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:01 am
by cecil j.
Sure an black panther/black jaggwarre also. I came from dover tn here too wa st in 05 and my black an tan dog PKC Mr Latch treed me a couple black panrthers and I seen black Jagguarre track and lion tracks in ft. campbell in the mud an in the snow and up in Land Between the Lakes also and along the barkley lake cumberland river in the wildlife on cross creeks ! How long they an the few bear I seen there has been in stewart county Tn I don`t know/ I believe its a mygratory path and also they drifted down in too the panhandle through TX. and went along the gulf states too fla and streight up into ark and into tn anf ald gathered in numbers in eastern tn an est.ky along the smokeys an from the applyanchain mtd and drifted in too theOzzarks plum in too kan/mo it has bee goen-on ever sence befor i was born in 45 ! I`m sure of that too be a fact .

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