Cougar Hunting

[HRM Johnny]

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@Hellgate, thanks for the heads up. I bought the book.

 

[HRM Johnny]

It's been my experience that cats take a long time to come in to calling. They tend to come in from behind when you are using too much volume. You will see them just appear seemingly out of nowhere and just setting or laying staring at the sound. Often the only movement you will detect is their tails moving, they will look like a rock that just showed up and wasn't there when you started calling. Because of this a lot of cats that are called aren't seen by callers I believe. We as callers see the fast-moving coyotes and then the fox, before the glacial moving cats. Just my thoughts.

Thanks Dave.

 

[ncwg2boatguy]

Id be open to reading some evidence if you have some. My guess is that study just reflects the severely low sucess rate of not being able to hunt with dogs.

Dogs are the "Only" way to selectively hunt for mountain lions, large predatory cats.

 

[Chas1]

Oh you meant the four legged kind.......

No experience there.... carry on.

Too Funny.

 

[billflangjr813]

What I would recommend is whenever you get a little new snow is to ride the logging roads looking for fresh tracks then do some calling. I live in Orygun too so there are as many cats as ever in the mountains & foothills. Attached photo is not me. Cat was taken in foothills not far east of Seattle. A big tom. Hunt with a partner!

That's a
Big Boy there.

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

I live in Northwest Alabama and have seen mountain lion on two separate occasions. I know I'm gonna stir some controversy by saying that I've seen a solid black one that might have weighed 100lbs while sitting in a shooting house deer hunting. It was chasing a doe that weighed probably 60lbs. It was 18 steps at 8:40 in the mourning. Another hunter saw it the next day standing in the middle of a gravel road. I know they say they don't exist. I'm sorry to say I know 1 did and will take a polygraph to prove it. If I fail it I'll pay if I pass the person that questions my credibility pays. I also have a game camera photo of one 20 plus years ago and if I can find it I will post it. I showed the photo of it to game Warden. After staring at it for 5 minutes in silence he said, all I can say is they don't exist. I put the photo in my shirt pocket then he asked to see it again, I said politely, see what? It don't exist and I got up and walked out.

 

[Browninglover1]

I live in Northwest Alabama and have seen mountain lion on two separate occasions. I know I'm gonna stir some controversy by saying that I've seen a solid black one that might have weighed 100lbs while sitting in a shooting house deer hunting. It was chasing a doe that weighed probably 60lbs. It was 18 steps at 8:40 in the mourning. Another hunter saw it the next day standing in the middle of a gravel road. I know they say they don't exist. I'm sorry to say I know 1 did and will take a polygraph to prove it. If I fail it I'll pay if I pass the person that questions my credibility pays. I also have a game camera photo of one 20 plus years ago and if I can find it I will post it. I showed the photo of it to game Warden. After staring at it for 5 minutes in silence he said, all I can say is they don't exist. I put the photo in my shirt pocket then he asked to see it again, I said politely, see what? It don't exist and I got up and walked out.

You should send the pic to Clay Newcomb. I loved his podcast on black panthers.

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

You should send the pic to Clay Newcomb. I loved his podcast on black panthers.

Unless he believes they exist I won't waste my time. I will say what I saw if not a mountain lion could be the elusive Florida black panther or jaguar. All I know is how cat don't grow knee high and weigh in around 100lbs.

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

Spelling corrections "house cats"

 

[Browninglover1]

Unless he believes they exist I won't waste my time. I will say what I saw if not a mountain lion could be the elusive Florida black panther or jaguar. All I know is how cat don't grow knee high and weigh in around 100lbs.

He 100% wants them too. He did an episode on southern jaguars and I remember talk of black panthers and the mystique around them. They even made a hat!

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[HRM Johnny]

Allen, would you please post the picture.

 

[HRM Johnny]

I live in Northwest Alabama and have seen mountain lion on two separate occasions. I know I'm gonna stir some controversy by saying that I've seen a solid black one that might have weighed 100lbs while sitting in a shooting house deer hunting. It was chasing a doe that weighed probably 60lbs. It was 18 steps at 8:40 in the mourning. Another hunter saw it the next day standing in the middle of a gravel road. I know they say they don't exist. I'm sorry to say I know 1 did and will take a polygraph to prove it. If I fail it I'll pay if I pass the person that questions my credibility pays. I also have a game camera photo of one 20 plus years ago and if I can find it I will post it.

I showed the photo of it to game Warden. After staring at it for 5 minutes in silence he said, all I can say is they don't exist

. I put the photo in my shirt pocket then he asked to see it again, I said politely, see what? It don't exist and I got up and walked out.

How do you look at a photo of it and say it doesn't exist? There's the old joke about the "local yokel" who sees a rhinoceros at the zoo; and says, "ther ain't no sech animal."

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

Allen, would you please post the picture.

I'm staying with my 89 yr.old dad right now but first chance I get I'll try to find it . If I do I'll post it.

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

How do you look at a photo of it and say it doesn't exist? There's the old joke about the "local yokel" who sees a rhinoceros at the zoo; and says, "ther ain't no sech animal."

There's that old saying, you can't fix stupid.