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Haha dang! That would be frightening. lol!

I haven't run down a lion but I did walk up to one that was caught in a leghold trap....I couldn't figure out at first why it wasn't running from me... video from that encounter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZRrqpjHgzo

I took my dogs for a walk this evening up in the public land north of Globe as we often do. My dogs run free and usually flush quail and maybe some deer and elk, but this time it was more exciting. Julie (my golden retriever) flushed some quail and they scatter and fly over my head and across the canyon. She loves to flush quail, but when I looked up she was racing around a manzanita near where the quail flushed and acting like she was on the trail of something much better than quail. I kind of just shined it off thinking she was just overly excited to chase quail in the snow and such. Anyway, Sunshine (my other dog) and I keep moving up the dirt road and lost track of Julie. After maybe 10 mins or so I hear her barking on the hill below me. She NEVER barks while we are out hiking...so I figured maybe she treed a bobcat or a coati. I get to the tree where she is and she is jumping up trying to climb the pinyon pine. I look up into the branches of the tree expecting to see something and yet I see nothing! I look and look and think I have a good view of all the branches and can't see anything. So I start thinking maybe whatever it was jumped out of the tree while Julie wasn't looking. But she is acting like she is sure something is up there. I walk downhill and around to the other side of the tree and catch a glimpse of fur and then a whole bobcat hunkered down on a branch (which was out of my view from the other side). Cool! It looks like a big male to me based on his head size, but I usually only see bobcats briefly and this was a real treat to watch it for awhile. It tried to stay stone still hoping we wouldn't see it. Poor Julie never did see it and she finally just decided that it was gone. After I took some cell phone pics and video, we continued our walk. The sun was setting so we didn't have much time. About 20 mins later we are heading back by this tree and I look and the bobcat is still in the same spot. Pretty smart to stay there because if it had come down, Julie would have chased it for sure. Anyway, it was fun to see the cat...gorgeous colors (although you can't tell from my pics). I only had the cell phone with me, so not the best pics, but enough to give you an idea. Way to go Julie!

I am pretty sure this bobcat was stalking the quail that Julie flushed and that's how she got on the bobcat's trail.

Bring the sheds to the CW Christmas party, maybe someone there will want to buy some? http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29003

Get a job at the mine in Morenci....you could get out of the big city and into some gorgeous country full of coues deer!

Love the snowfall pics!

Very cool!! Congratulations! My hat is off to your grandpa! Wow, that's just amazing to be hunting when your 80! And your mom is awesome too!

Bring your daughter and show her all the lights!

Great job guys!! Thanks for sharing the story and pics with us!

Julie was so happy with her adventure. I just wish I had been able to show her where the cat was up in that tree so she could have seen it. She got all pumped up and when we continued on our walk she took off following some scent and awhile later I saw very fresh tiny javelina tracks in the mud.....I got worried she was gonna get into a herd of pigs, so I called both dogs back and went back by the bobcat.

Exactly what I was thinking! I love living within minutes of public land that is scenic and fun to hike.

Actually we do our wild turkeys pretty much the same way we do regular ones and they turn out great! My husband smokes them with apple wood on the grill....YUM!! If you are good at grilling poultry, you might want to do it that way. You just have to be careful controlling the heat. We have also brined a wild turkey once before grilling it. I can't say I noticed any difference, but it's supposed to make it more juicy and add different flavors (if you spice up the brine). Search the internet for all kinds of brine recipes.

No "Bang".....no weapon with me. But you know I am not sure I wanted to anyway...it was so scared looking huddled on the branch. I just really enjoyed the closeup encounter. Man those cats are beautiful! It looked so much nicer than these pics show....

Woo-hoo!!! Thanks TJ and Peg! Paul and I plan to be there!

Congratulations!

Wow!! Great bear! I like how his fur seems sort of fluffed up.

Wow! What a great contest with so many excellent trail camera photos submitted! Congratulations to our winners! I am giving the winners of each of the four categories a new DLC Covert Extreme TLV Trail Camera. The runners-up in each category win free CouesWhitetail.com tshirts of their chosing. for info on the covert cameras, click here: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/trail_cameras.htm Thank you to everyone that entered! I was really impressed with the hundreds of interesting photos that were submitted!! And thanks to those that took the time to vote. If you see your name below, that means you won something, so email mewith your name and mailing address. If you won a tshirt, please select the style, color, design and size that you want. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/tshirts.htm Best Coues Photo: Willhunt4coues - wins Covert Extreme TLV Trail camera Gearsnagger - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt AZstroops - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Bigbuck - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Darly_S - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Funniest Trail Camera Photo: BigBuck - wins Covert Extreme TLV Trail camera Flash - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Bowhunter4life - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Bigbuck - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt azarcheryhunter69 - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Best Non-Coues Trail Cam pic: DubTee - wins Covert Extreme TLV Trail camera AZtrophytakers - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt 1azbowhunter - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Matthewp45 - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt ruthunter - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Best Wildlife Series: BigBuck - wins Covert Extreme TLV Trail camera MearnsGuy - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt TScott - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Bigbuck - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Nighthawk - wins CouesWhitetail.com tshirt Watch the compilation video that shows the hundreds of pics submitted in just a minute! it goes very fast! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoKbNty4Hg

But wouldn't it be black during daylight and therefore not very readable on a black tinted window?

Guess you missed the directions in the first post... "If you see your name below, that means you won something, so email me with your name and mailing address. If you won a tshirt, please select the style, color, design and size that you want. http://www.coueswhit...ore/tshirts.htm " If you can tell me your top 2 choices for shirt design, color and size, that is helpful because I am low on some styles. Click on the link above to see all the shirt designs. Don't forget we have that new black short sleeve tshirt which is really light and comfortable and has a great design!

My sticker guy says reflective stickers are twice as expensive as regular ones. Are your browning stickers white in regular light or are they gold like they reflect in the pic?

I have seen this just one time and if I remember right it was a unit 23 buck. Unfortunately, I don't think I have a photo.

here is the link to the top 5 for each category. Those links show how the voting finished out too, so you can see the winner is the one with the most votes. Best Coues http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27937 Funniest http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27938 Best Non-Coues http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27940 Best Wildlife Series: http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27941

you mentioned ducks... here is a link to some duck recipes....i posted my favorite, duck ramaki...YUM! http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=22385

here is a thread that has tons of great info in it: http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14277