Woman saved from cougar by knife wielding friends

Jeff Clark

Jeff Clark

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Saturday a 70 pound cougar attacked a woman hiker in central California. Her friends repelled the mountain lion by stabbing it with a knife and driving it away with rocks. Shannon Parker lost her right eye, was injured in her other eye and suffered deep gashes in her leg. The lion left a bloody trail and was tracked and shot by the USFS. This is a different outcome than the January attack where a mountain lion killed one biker and mauled another. This is one of the reasons to never go out in the wilds without a knife and/or gun.
 
This is a good reason to never go out in the wilds without a friend. It's easier and more effective attacking a cougar with a knife when you're not the one on the ground and getting torn up.

Also see frontsight's fight.
 
Okay, Esav, but if you go into the deep woods with a REAL good friend and a bear spots BOTH of you, you could end up making

...THE BEAST WITH 3 BACKS.....!!!!

:D :D :D
 
Seriously, I can not imagine why people go into the wilds unarmed.

A Beretta .25 is smaller than a camera.

Knives are great because they are "allowed" in parks. But guns are better for beasties.

There is ALWAYS the chance of finding someone's ....GARDEN..... and the ability to leave peacefully is very very good advice.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
This is a good reason to never go out in the wilds without a friend...
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I´ve heard you should always go with someone you can outrun. :D

(sorry, couldn´t resist).
 
I´ve heard you should always go with someone you can outrun.
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Thanks ... groan ... I'm the crippled old man everyone can outrun. That's why I say ...

Bear spray! :D
 
If you ever find yourself between a sow bear and her cubs you will understand. I do. :eek: Happily the outcome was good for me AND the bears. :) Ruined a perfectly good morning of turkey hunting. :rolleyes:

Paul
 
Two lessons learned here:

1. When in cougar country, it is better to not hike alone. The woman was hiking with three others, but then turned around to go (alone) back down the trail to find something that had been dropped by her fiance (now why didn't he go back?). Although I don't always follow this advice myself.

2. This is another example of the results of the misguided wackos in this wonderful state who voted into law a ballot initiative that bans mountain lion hunting. So now lion populations are booming, and the weaker ones are being pushed into the suburbs or marginal hunting areas, where they become desperate for food. The lion in this case was emaciated and underweight.

Whenever I go into the mountains (at least in the national forest) I always pack a gun. I am not worried about the bears, they have never given me any grief in a number of encounters. I worry about the lions, as well as the coyotes that are also becoming a greater problem with each passing day. A friend of mine lost a pet dog to coyotes last week, they raided his campsite by Shaver Lake.
 
Whenever discussions of taking weapons into the wilderness surface, I keep thinking back to the only scene I remember from The Highlander tv series, where Duncan MacLeod takes his bag and sword out of his truck and walks off into the woods alone, and two rangers see this (even the sword). One turns to the other and says, "Does he know something we don't?"
 
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