Last month a Umatilla tribal member went up into the Blue Mountains to hunt turkeys and came home with more game than he bargained for.

The man set out a decoy and began calling birds with a mating call whistle. Slowly the birds began approaching and then stopped. He couldn't figure out why, but they seemed frozen. The he saw movement in the bushes quite close, and before he could react a MOUNTAIN LION exploded from the brush and went straight for him!

Surprised by the deception, it looked up and found the hunter just feet away! Without pausing it lunged at the hunter who fell backwards and got a shot out of his shotgun. He got the animal but then couldn't find it.

After he'd calmed down he notified the tribe and filled out a kill report to claim the carcass. Upon returning the site he followed a blood trail until he found the cougar with a cauterized entry wound in the shoulder!

Hulton Archive, Getty Images
Hulton Archive, Getty Images
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