cougar shot in chicago o/t

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That's why I question the effectiveness of the 9mm. When I was discussing it with the County Sheriff a couple of days later, the Sheriff said if I could take out a couple of stray dogs with a 9mm, he ought to make me a Reserve Deputy. He, himself, is aware of the limitations of the 9mm, but that's what they give the LEO's nowadays.

So, I'd conclude 18 rounds with a 9mm on a mountain lion is probably about right.

Of course, there"s an exception to every rule. For example, there"s a news story today about a lady getting it between the eyes with a .44 and being treated/released from the emergency room. Bullets do funny things sometimes, plus I"ve been told that there are some extremely hard-headed women...

One shot, one kill: Not exactly. Think someone needs to go back to the pistol range with a target in the outline of a cougar?

That's why the good old .45 automatic is still the handgun of choice in Iraq. Feedback I get from Marines over there is if you shoot someone with a standard issue 9mm, all you do is pi$$ him off. Shoot him with a .45 and he's down.

Seems a cattle truck had overturned on the freeway and there was a steer loose, so...target practice time!

Just this week there was a story in the North Platte NE paper about a cow that had gotten loose from the sale barn and was on the courthouse lawn of all places....no big deal, it was simply roped from horseback and put back where it belonged...guess there's a shortage of ropers in Omaha?

Back to the cougar though, for those thinking it didn't HAVE to be killed....what were the other alternatives??? Marlin Perkins has retired, and anyway a tranquilizer dart would just make the thing mad, not a good idea in a populated area for sure! Maybe a more humane plan would have been a rubber mouse on the end of a long string to lure kitty out of town and safely back to the woods? :)

Now--all the people who say either the cougar shouldn't have been shot 18 times and/or that it didn't need to be shot at all would be the first ones to raise a hue and cry if the cougar had attacked or injured people. Period!

I believe that it was 1997 or 1998 that the state of Utah had a special season on cougars. When 600 had been killed, the season ended.

Too many people associate these animals with their house cat, I sure wouldn't want one hanging around my back yard!

Number one, they didn't need to kill it.

Number 2, if it was justifiable to kill it, any number of us gun-owning and experienced citizens could've dispatched that animal with a single and humane shot from a safe distance. Makes you wonder how safe folks are when a whole team of "trained" police use 18 rounds to kill something.

I get to fire my gun hehe, and it's not human haha, no investigation priceless.