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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DC on November 20, 2014, 04:29:37 pm

Title: Cougar?
Post by: DC on November 20, 2014, 04:29:37 pm
Saw this on my walk this morning. This is by a path that 20 or so people use a day. I thought it might be a buck rubbing but the bark around the top is cut like a knife vertically.
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Post by: Stoker on November 20, 2014, 06:01:25 pm
Possible .. Seen Black bears do that
Thanks Leroy
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Post by: Pat B on November 20, 2014, 06:04:35 pm
I'd say it is a buck rub. A bear would mark(bite and scratch) trees also but usually at its head height.
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Post by: Buffalogobbler on November 20, 2014, 06:39:05 pm
A friend of mine killed a big buck the other day and in the pic I saw, there's a buck rub that looks just like that tree.

Kevin
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Post by: Outbackbob48 on November 20, 2014, 07:07:05 pm
Diffently buck rub, the long verticle cuts usually from browtines. imo Bob
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Post by: mullet on November 20, 2014, 10:01:58 pm
Buck. The bears down here do it about eight feet off the ground on telephone poles and have them leaning eventually.
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Post by: stickbender on November 20, 2014, 10:14:02 pm

     Ditto.  A bear will stand up, and claw, and bite, and urinate around the tree.  So the claw marks are up higher, and are usually all vertical.  However, Sasquatch  ...... ::)  OOh, speaking of, I was reading an article about Alaska, and there is a section, in a marshy boggy area, where there are fairly large dead cedar trees upside down, jammed into the marsh, with the roots, on top and the top of the tree jammed into the ground.  There are no tracks of a machine, that would be needed to do such a thing.  Like I said the trees are fairly large, more than a man or two could even lift, let alone jam upside down, into the ground.  It showed pictures of the areas, and the trees.  The guy writing the story, said his Indian guide, said, that they believe it is the Sasquatch marking their territories, and showing how bad they are, by putting some pretty big dead trees up side down in the ground.  I think I would just go around that area. ;) :D


                                    Wayne
Title: Re: Cougar?
Post by: 4dog on November 21, 2014, 02:27:38 pm
Was looking foreward to a completely different thread!!  >:D  :P  >:(  O:)
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Post by: mullet on November 21, 2014, 06:20:30 pm
That topic would probably just fiil an old guy like you with false hope. :D ;)
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Post by: JW_Halverson on November 21, 2014, 10:05:27 pm
Quote from: 4dog on November 21, 2014, 02:27:38 pm
Was looking foreward to a completely different thread!!  >:D  :P  >:(  O:)

Me too.  Problem is, at  my age the cougars are sabertooths.
Title: Re: Cougar?
Post by: medicinewheel on November 22, 2014, 04:46:47 am
Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 21, 2014, 10:05:27 pm
Quote from: 4dog on November 21, 2014, 02:27:38 pm
Was looking foreward to a completely different thread!!  >:D  :P  >:(  O:)

Me too.  Problem is, at  my age the cougars are sabertooths.

Dito.
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Post by: 4dog on November 23, 2014, 01:12:53 pm
Amen Jdub...amen
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Post by: bow101 on November 24, 2014, 06:58:45 pm
Bears usually do it higher up.  Nice one Don. Watch your back........ >:D   Some people have been stalked on the Island and attacked .  The Island has the largest concentration of Mountain Lions in North America.    :o