Small Game, Predator and TrappingFrom shooting squirrels in your backyard to calling coyotes in Arizona. This forum now contains trapping information..
I went yote hunting saturday night. It was getting to dark to even shoot, and there was something coming our way, to big to be a yote, didn't walk like a deer, about 40 yards away, we lost it, so we just left, didn't think much of it. The next night we were driving around, looking for yotes, and saw something crossing the road. It was a cougar, with a radio-collar, antenna sticking out about a foot, spotted it about 1/4 mile away from where we might have first saw it. Pretty scary considering we were on the ground, could not shoot, calling yotes. Anybody else have any first hand encounters?, anybody from Iowa?
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man thats cool,were you calling by mouth or did you have an e-caller,if you were mouth calling you know where that cat was heading,man that might force someone to break the law in self defense,watch your back man I would find the biggest tree in the woods to sit by,I once read you cant out run them and you cant out climb them so maybe you should hunt by a lake,you might be able to out swim one!!!!PS is there a season in your state?In KY the dept. of fish and wildlife doesn't recognize them as being in the state,so we have no regulations listed on them in our hunting guides,allthough there have been sightings and pictures in the papers and local TV stations of them so we have a few around.I bet you would be the biggest rodent that he ever tried to eat,had he closed those final yards and attacked??
The town I live in admitted to releasing some in the county a few years back to reduce the deer population.... They waited till residents started seeing them to admit it. I live about 20 minutes northwest of Kansas City, KS. I've seen one too close for comfort on one occaision when I was squirrel/rabbit hunting on the edge of the city with just a pellet gun, ever since then Icarry a .40 smith&wesson when I'm out in the woods. I will shoot it on sight if i see it in the same spot again because it is too close to my neigboorhood and there are lots of children and pets. I don't care about the law on this matter, the city brought the problem on themselves. Since then I've only seen one when I was about 15 miles west of town where it is very rural.
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man thats cool,were you calling by mouth or did you have an e-caller,if you were mouth calling you know where that cat was heading,man that might force someone to break the law in self defense,watch your back man I would find the biggest tree in the woods to sit by,I once read you cant out run them and you cant out climb them so maybe you should hunt by a lake,you might be able to out swim one!!!!PS is there a season in your state?In KY the dept. of fish and wildlife doesn't recognize them as being in the state,so we have no regulations listed on them in our hunting guides,allthough there have been sightings and pictures in the papers and local TV stations of them so we have a few around.I bet you would be the biggest rodent that he ever tried to eat,had he closed those final yards and attacked??
In Iowa, you can kill a cougar, because it is considered a "predator/varmit," so there is so real season on it, just like a yote, we were calling with am e-caller, tomorrow I'm going to go look for more tracks.
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First Cougar Experience
