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Byron Quick · October 7, 2001, 01:58 AM

I'm in eastern Georgia. You do NOT want to shoot this animal. The game wardens will eat you alive,especially if they decide it is not a mountain lion but rather an Everglades panther.

I know a man who decided to save the neighborhood from a young black bear. Shot the bear 19 times with a .22. It cost him about as much as a self defense shooting and he narrowly escaped conviction as a felon.

By hearsay, I've heard of some guys who shot one of the radio tagged mountain lions released in Florida who wandered into eastern central Georgia.
They DID NOT escape felony conviction!

October 7, 2001, 01:58 AM	#19
Byron Quick Staff In Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Waynesboro, Georgia, USA Posts: 2,361	I'm in eastern Georgia. You do NOT want to shoot this animal. The game wardens will eat you alive,especially if they decide it is not a mountain lion but rather an Everglades panther. I know a man who decided to save the neighborhood from a young black bear. Shot the bear 19 times with a .22. It cost him about as much as a self defense shooting and he narrowly escaped conviction as a felon. By hearsay, I've heard of some guys who shot one of the radio tagged mountain lions released in Florida who wandered into eastern central Georgia. They DID NOT escape felony conviction!