What? No option for "get mountain lion drunk with six pack of beer and then haul @** out of there?"

Well, actually, would probably end up befriending it, teaching it several tricks and making a mint off the act....which would promptly get spent on bandages (for me) and steaks (which we would share).

Well since pulling the gun wasn't an option I went with the knife as it was the closest option to it.

I'll yell out with my dying breath, "I died supporting the right to bear arms."

huskykma wrote:Well since pulling the gun wasn't an option I went with the knife as it was the closest option to it.

I would shoot it in the face

I throw the knife down and I charge at the cat screaming in the loudest, most primal scream that I can muster. Then the cat and I fight to the death and I show that SOB who is at the top of the food chain. Or my family makes some scratch off of my life insurance. One of those two.

werdwerdus wrote:I would shoot it in the face

Wooters are forgetting that Mountain Lions are cats, not elephants. Cats are silent, and sneaky. They average 150 pounds, all pure muscle and bone. This critter is pouncing on you from a tree limb just after you've passed by. There's no way in the world "you're pulling your gun" as it'll have it's jaws around the back of your neck and claws dug into your shoulders before you can wonder where those stars are coming from.

Best bet to save your life, if you can reach... go for the eyes.

Speaking as someone who has been encountering this sort of thing on a daily basis lately, I can tell you that my immediate instinct is to inject Deadly Hunter, then open up with my SMG, or perhaps a flare gun, if that's handy.

Easy choice of action. I trip my hiking partner making that partner the much easier kill and make my exit while the cat is having dinner.

note2001 wrote:Wooters are forgetting that Mountain Lions are cats, not elephants. Cats are silent, and sneaky. They average 150 pounds, all pure muscle and bone. This critter is pouncing on you from a tree limb just after you've passed by. There's no way in the world "you're pulling your gun" as it'll have it's jaws around the back of your neck and claws dug into your shoulders before you can wonder where those stars are coming from.

Silly, you forget the fact that having a gun near you makes you both invincible and impervious to pain. And faster than any other living creature or being. And smarter. And morally superior. "Get my gun" is the correct action in every situation, ever.