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Community => Photo & Video => Topic started by: JBR on February 15, 2008, 09:18:59 AM

Title: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: JBR on February 15, 2008, 09:18:59 AM: I just had this emailed to me from a friend. Apparently this picture is from Montana and captured a picture of a cougar stalking a deer during the night, as they passed someone's trail camera.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi153.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fs223%2Fjbrodge%2FATT49436.jpg&hash=983673fc4872542125b68f08b8e15936cb676422)
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: popeshawnpaul on February 15, 2008, 09:55:42 AM: I want to say it's real, and it probably is. However, I have so many questions. How can a cougar be walking 1 foot behind a deer and the deer doesn't know? Why wouldn't the cougar be on the back of the deer and killing it if it was so close to the deer? I dunno, makes me wonder.

shawn
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: JBR on February 15, 2008, 10:02:35 AM: Shawn - I too am always skeptical of things on the internet. Who knows... I saw the picture and thought it was cool, so I passed it along.

Jim
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on February 15, 2008, 10:10:22 AM: I have seen this for a while. Deer may be severely injured? If the cougar knows it's not going anywhere whats the hurry?
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Slider on February 15, 2008, 10:15:50 AM: Photoshoped!!! ;)
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Post by: Bscman on February 15, 2008, 10:25:06 AM: Quote from: Slider on February 15, 2008, 10:15:50 AM
Photoshoped!!! ;)

+1
More than likely it is two separate pictures taken ad different times that were grafted together.
Most likely the deer passed the camera, and sometime late a cougar was tracking the cat...

I opened it with photoshop to check it out a little better...can't find any seams, and the lighting looks good. However, the area around the time-stamp is suspect. You can read the "AM" part clearly, but it's almost like two sets of times are doubled and impossible to make out.

Besides, if it was real the cat would've taken the deer at any moment...there would be a story with more pics involved if this was real (blood trail, scuffle marks, carcass, etc).
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 10:47:30 AM: I get alot of trailcam pictures of lions.Huntnphool has posted some of them for me under Trailcamera Pictures.They have learned to hunt my feed piles where we feed the deer.I have had 2 hunters in the last couple years that have watched them kill a deer on the grain right in front of them.One even came under the tree stand and got within 5 yards before he jumped it and killed it in the grain.This has made the deer really on edge when they are feeding and makes it hard for a hunter to move at all in the stand.We have since added lion to most of our hunts so that our out of state hunters will purches a tag incase they see one.Except Califorians because they can't take one home.Our Washington hunters usually always have a tag.This picture is one that was killed on one of our deer baits It came up behind the hunter ,sniffed up the ladder stand and then went to the grain and he shot it.You can barely see the ladder stand to the right.So don't let anyone tell you you can't bait a lion with grain !! Which is LEGAL !! ;)
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: JBR on February 15, 2008, 10:59:05 AM: Geez...tough crowd. I better have it analyzed at Quantico before I think twice about sharing. Make a guy feel like he's trying to pull the wool over everyone. Saw it, thought it was neat, posted it. My bad.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: boneaddict on February 15, 2008, 11:23:26 AM: Don't fret JBR. Thanks for posting it. It hit MM about a year ago, and was analyed by the possi. IT was deemed photoshopped, but whose o say. Appreciate you sharing something cool. I'm sure many haven't seen it. Its sort of like the mule and cougar pics. they show up, some haven't seen them some think they are fake, some don't care. You can't take a cool picture these days without bein critiqued thanks to photoshop. Don't stop sharing.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: bobcat on February 15, 2008, 11:58:32 AM: Quote from: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 10:47:30 AM
So don't let anyone tell you you can't bait a lion with grain !! Which is LEGAL !! ;)

Now that's one cougar hunting technique I have NEVER heard of!
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 12:08:03 PM: I am new to this site thanks to Bobcat. There does seem to be alot of negativity on here.I don't know why someone would fake a photo like that. Seems totaly real to me.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 15, 2008, 12:15:34 PM: Hey Outfitter do you guys score pretty good on cougars?
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Post by: Buckshot Bill on February 15, 2008, 12:19:14 PM: That's a cool pic no matter what anyone says :o
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 12:25:39 PM: We get a couple a year.If I could get all of the hunters to buy tags we would probably take 12-15 going off the sightings.The problem is our hunters have to buy a bear tag to get a lion tag even after bear is closed for the year.Alot of them won't do it for such a slim chance.When they first closed lion season in 96 to hounds you could buy a out of state lion tag without bear for $50.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: huntingnut on February 15, 2008, 12:29:44 PM: Cool pic, thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: ICEMAN on February 15, 2008, 01:36:16 PM: Quote from: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 12:08:03 PM
......I don't know why someone would fake a photo like that. Seems totaly real to me.

Don't know why? Because alot of guys have nothing better to do than to make a fake photo, and then post it to see what happens.

JBR, thanks for posting, I had not seen it. Gives me something to dream about...pretty cool either way.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: popeshawnpaul on February 15, 2008, 02:37:30 PM: I think they took two separate photos from the same trail cam, one with the cougar and one with the deer. You open them both in photoshop and drag one onto the other and I think you hold the shift button. It aligns them and combines the two images.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: JBR on February 15, 2008, 02:41:40 PM: No worries guys - like I said, I have no idea either way. If it is real - great shot. If not, people should find other stuff to do I guess. I get a cougar tag every year with the hopes of seeing one while deer hunting. So far no luck :bash:
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Outfitter on February 15, 2008, 03:51:46 PM: More trailcams.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: popeshawnpaul on February 15, 2008, 04:03:10 PM: It's almost surreal to see them in the trailcam pictures because I spend so much time outdoors and never see cougars. I have seen two in my life and consider myself lucky.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: billythekidrock on February 15, 2008, 04:54:54 PM: Real or not? Not too sure. Don't really care either way, but thought I would post what I know.
This has been going around for years with diff stories, most are based in a state that have only WT deer. That is not a WT deer in the pic. Here are some pics that I have found floating around. There are some inconsistencies in all of them.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fnormal_cougaranddeer2.jpg&hash=0e410dd33e7e239fe35a78e3e3697810dc97ba1e)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2Fcougardeer2.jpg&hash=a1be1c2daa29f3f1883805644f4a030c18877f91)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hunt101.com%2Fdata%2F500%2Fmedium%2Fcougardeer3.jpg&hash=aa47735bd871284f4ada24b5cd30e51fd17ef7fd)
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: 280ackley on February 15, 2008, 06:17:57 PM: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: boneaddict on February 15, 2008, 08:11:47 PM: lmao
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: JBR on February 16, 2008, 06:11:41 PM: Guess that clears it up once and for all :DOH:!!!
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: gramps on February 16, 2008, 06:53:39 PM: LOL..There is a guy in Walla Walla that says it was taken behind his cabin at Tollgate, Or.
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: billythekidrock on February 16, 2008, 07:39:20 PM: Quote from: JBR on February 16, 2008, 06:11:41 PM
Guess that clears it up once and for all :DOH:!!!

Or makes more questions..lol
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: Head-shot on February 16, 2008, 08:54:24 PM: Quote from: grumps on February 16, 2008, 06:53:39 PM
LOL..There is a guy in Walla Walla that says it was taken behind his cabin at Tollgate, Or.

Was he ever abducted by aliens or taken captive by bigfoot? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: robb92 on February 16, 2008, 08:55:30 PM: Some good pics and a couple of funny ones!!
Title: Re: Trail cam captures cougar stalking a deer!
Post by: backwoods_boy on March 18, 2009, 09:21:16 PM: ha ha ha i see two :dunno: :chuckle: