Mountain lion
10-21-2002, 09:54 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SE North Dakota
Posts: 456
Mountain lion
Has anybody here ever shot a cougar? I would love to go out West and get one with my bow, but the price is still too steep. However, I think it would be a great thrill.
"Playing under the table and dreaming"
"Playing under the table and dreaming"
10-21-2002, 10:33 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: durango Colorado USA
Posts: 567
RE: Mountain lion
Been there ---done that !! How it's done here is after a fresh snow you drive the logging roads--trying to cut a track-- then you put the dogs & the chase begins. Up the canyon, across rimrock, down the other side, cross the creek And hopefully the cat will tree in a big old Ponderosa pine. I shot mine with a 30/30. Lots of guys use a 357 or bow.
10-22-2002, 03:24 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: E. Washington State
Posts: 1,045
RE: Mountain lion
Unfortunately here in WA. you can't use dogs any more (damn Anti's!!!) so not many are shot here now. Of course they are starting to attack dogs and children and smaller people so everyone's bitching that the State needs to control/kill them. Stupid people make me so mad!!!!
Unless you call them with a predator call or you happen to see one out hunting not too many are shot here now.
Unless you call them with a predator call or you happen to see one out hunting not too many are shot here now.
10-25-2002, 07:06 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wellsville Ut USA
Posts: 2
RE: Mountain lion
If you think the price of a guided mountain lion hunt is steep, try looking at the costs of owning and maintaining a competent pack of lion hounds!! Down right scary. $3,000 for a guided hunt is a bargain....
10-26-2002, 10:47 PM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Elizabeth CO USA
Posts: 68
RE: Mountain lion
Jeff,
If your really intersted in getting that cat send me an E-mail. cats are what we do and we do it very well. I have some openings left for this year.
Look for some E-mail from me (KTGYN@AOL)
Edited by - surestrike on 10/26/2002 23:50:08
Edited by - surestrike on 10/27/2002 00:10:12
If your really intersted in getting that cat send me an E-mail. cats are what we do and we do it very well. I have some openings left for this year.
Look for some E-mail from me (KTGYN@AOL)
Edited by - surestrike on 10/26/2002 23:50:08
Edited by - surestrike on 10/27/2002 00:10:12
11-01-2002, 09:06 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NW Montana / SW Alberta Rockies
Posts: 3,258
RE: Mountain lion
Thats the way it is here in Montana too Colorado Bob. Each hunting districts has quotas in which are issued by permits. A friend of mine was called by the local game warden in wanting him to get a problem cat that had been on a ranchers livestock. He got his dogs and got the cat treed in a huge ponderosa pine and shot it. He told me the cat was the biggest that he had ever gotten and from what he says would of made the record books but the warden made them burn the entire thing as my friend wept. 
11-04-2002, 06:37 AM
#10
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: No Where New Mexico USA
Posts: 11
RE: Mountain lion
Just curious here. What do ya'll consider a "big" cat. Weight wise as well as skull length and width.
Thanks
Mike
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse ALWAYS gets the cheese"
Thanks
Mike
"The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse ALWAYS gets the cheese"