For once I could say I was truly scared . I decided to take a walk back to my old hunting spot and check it out. I had been walkin for about an hour. I had seen 7 turkeys earlier and they went ahead of me. After I seen them I kept walking and come over one ridge and was about 10 yards from the top of the next. Then is when it all happened. I heard a scream, thats the best way to describe it. Then 6 turkeys took off like a bullet. This screaming had kept going on then turned into what sounded like a cat fight. In the midst of the loud noises I could pick out one that sounded like a turkey yelp and on that sounded like a catfight. It was down over the side and too close to see yet. But when I heard it I froze. I didn't stick around long enough to see it, but my best guess is mountain lion verses turkey. It had to have been big because it sounded like a tank rolling through the woods. It happened on a steep hill that leeds down to the crick. I had ran for the house, but fell while running down between two ridges, ripped my pants and tore up my knee pretty good. I will take a gun with me next time, this time I had a hand saw and brush clippers, now if I had a gun, theres no doubt in my mind that I would have kept going, but I was not armed for combat, so to speak.

That would have spooked me as well. A hand saw and brush clippers does not seem like the proper tools to fight a Mt. Lion.

Handsaw and clippers would have worked just fine.   From what you described it sounded like a Bobcat. Do y'all have any up that way? Don't know about the Lion but a Bobcat can make the hair stand up on your neck.

Frogtog hit the nail on the head. A mountain lion or Puma wouldn't make all of that noise during the kill.

By the way, a Bobcat wouldn't bother with you either. You were probably very safe.

OK Frogtog, I say we put you in a cage armed with a saw and brush clippers with a hungry, pi**ed off Bobcat and see who wins !!!, What say you guys?----Just pullin your chain a little FT. ;D

OK Frogtog, I say we put you in a cage armed with a saw and brush clippers with a hungry, pi**ed off Bobcat and see who wins !!!, What say you guys?----Just pullin your chain a little FT. ;D

Been their and done that. While trapping, one morning I was checking traps about 4am and it was kind of spooky out there by myself. when I got close to where my trap was I thought I seen some eye's for a second but they disappeared. When I got where the trap was supposed to be something lunged

at me from beside a tree. I turned to run and fell backwards on this thing.

It let out a yell and I let out a scream that would put a woman to shame. we

got untangled and it ran as far as it could and I ran as far as I could ( Witch was a lot further than it did ) after making it back to the truck and regaining my composure I retrieved my trusty trapping shovel I went back and he now sits in front of my fire place.

Yeah frogtog, we got some moutain lions up here, and lots of coyotes. We blame the game comission for both. They told us that they transported the coyotes to here, so we figured they did the same with the moutain lions.