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Two different situations I happened across on my place in the last two yrs in E Texas.
1st one was when returning from a morning bow hunt, walking back to the barn, I came across a cat that was stalking a squirrel. I was 20 feet from it at his back and he did not know I was there. At first I thought he was a Farrell cat, and I watched him attack and kill this squirrel in one split second by attacking the neck of the squirrel. As the cat turned and faced me, I saw he was not a Farrell cat but not a bobcat either. His ears were pointy and his fur was grayish blue and I would guess him to weigh about 20 lbs, about the size of a big house cat. I had never seen a cat like him before, so when I got to the house I looked up on the internet and I swear it was a lynx. Not known to be in E Texas. Bobcats are a lynx cat but this was not a Bobcat. There is a 9,000 acre wildlife refuge across the road from me and a 27,000 acre of the largest cypress tree forest in N America also.
2nd was walking a wildlife food plot and seeing these large tracks I was not familiar with, so I took a picture of the tracks and again looked them up on the internet. To my surprise, the tracks were Mountain lion. I started caring my pistol with me on the bow hunts from then on.

Tracy