Man this sounds like one hellacious fight to death.
Jog with a gun and/or a big knife.
Agree!
He is VERY lucky! I don’t understand running the Mountain Trails without any means to protect yourself other than your hands. Just doesn’t make sense.
Hope he gets to keep the cat.
Heck, something for two legged predators…
Imagine the pickup lines that guy can pull now.
“Ayy girl, I just choked out a mountain lion. How about letting me choke a cougar?”
I was thinkin he was going to have an awesome story to tell his grand children. It’s a modern mountain man story.
After I read The victim was “attacked from behind,” according to a report, all I got to say is:
Funny, Calvin and Hobbes was one of my favorite strips along with Bloom county.
Yep, got every compilation of Calvin and Hobbes that has been printed. I was pretty upset when Watterson ‘retired.’
Just so everyone knows what a subversive I am, I’m also pretty sure I have every compilation of Doonesbury that has been printed.
I’d like to know if it was a two-handed choke or a head lock type. Just trying to imagine…
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I had the whole collection as well, although some of them have since been lost to the ages. I might buy the big boxed collection at some point.
I really identified with Calvin when I was a kid.
As big of a bummer as Watterson’s retirement was, in a way I think he made the right decision to pull the plug while the strip was still really good vs letting it go on and on for thirty years and becoming tired and stale like a lot of other newspaper comics have. There’s something to be said for going out on top.
Either way it is still like trying to hold onto a running chainsaw without using the handle.
He is lucky it was a juvenile. I don’t think he would have fared as well if it wasn’t. Still badass nonetheless.
But do you have a copy of the Original Yale cartoons?
No kidding, cats are really fast creatures when they’re on the attack. Even nasty domesticated cats give me pause let alone a 80-100ib mountain lion. I’m glad the guy prevailed.
I work with big cats. This is almost too hard to believe. Mt. lions can take down 1000 pound elk. I can’t believe this human was not only able to fight it off, but to kill it bare handed? Something doesn’t add up. Imagine the damage that would be done if you tried to strangle a house cat. Now multiply that by 20 or 30 times.
Wow. Simply astounding if its true. The guy must be ripped to shreds by the hooks.
I can’t in my wildest imagination trying to suffocate a mountain lion. Young or old.
That guy has some massive cajones. I’ve seen mountain lions manhandle large deer with ease. They are extremely strong. Article says he hit it with a rock multiple times and then choked it to death, but that he also came away with multiple lacerations to his face and body. I’m sure that was some fight.
I always carry my Glock 20 10mm with a light when I hunt deer and elk, and ironically the one time I didn’t I had a big mountain lion come out on the trail I was on in the dark and stopped about 20 yards from me. I had my muzzleloader unloaded and strapped to my pack since it was an hour before light, so I had nothing readily accessible to defend myself. The lion stood there looking at me for about 10 seconds and then crept into some bushes. I promptly loaded my muzzle loader, but luckily never saw it again.
Another time I was making fresh tracks up a trail in the snow, hunting elk, and when I came back down a few hours later, there were very large mountain lion tracks in the snow behind my tracks that kept crossing the trail over my tracks. Looked like it was stalking me, but I never heard or saw it. They are smart animals. Glad that guy came out alive
I caught a Bobcat in a Coyote trap one time. That SOB was fifteen pounds of snarling scratching and biting.
I can’t imagine something with the same temperament and coming in at 80 or 90 pounds in a wrestling match.
My Ex jogs in the mornings in Tucson, she swears she has seen a mountain lion in the suburbs just casually walking on fences and roof tops.
There are a few accounts out there from Africa or Asia of people getting jumped by leopards and managing to kill them with their bare hands.
If the cougar the dude killed was young, inexperienced and small, which seems to be the case, it’s not impossible it just screwed up its attack and ended up in a position where it’s intended meal got the upper hand. Young cougars also get killed by deer and elk, or have trouble subduing raccoons and small dogs when they botch an attack. There is a definite learning curve to being a predator.