Cougar kill!

[hardkorrhunter]

So I had been bedding the same three doe black tails for a week down an old skid road for about a week been seeing them every evening and last night I slipped into position and found a fresh buck rub. So there I am thinking to my self alright tonight's the night, I only hunt with a bow mind you and I do hold a multi season tag. Any way I'm thinking for sure I'm filling my tag and I slip in a little further only to find that a cougar has beaten me to the punch and killed one of the does that I've Been watching. So I scoot back about 40yds from the kill and sit til dark hoping to see the cat return for seconds, no such luck. This is the third cougar kill found on this hill in the last two years, one last year was a real heavy three point with eye guards.

[jrebel]

I would go back tonight and sit again.....Here Kitty Kitty Kitty 

[Ccortez]

I would go back tonight and sit again.....Here Kitty Kitty Kitty 

 

[hardkorrhunter]

Gotta take the kids out for Halloween or I would be up there right after work. I'm gonna go check it out tomorrow night.

[blacktailcody]

Get a call.

[Netminder01]

Sitting over that deer kill might get you a nice little kitty.

[hardkorrhunter]

My buddy has one of them fox pro electric call we plan on setting that dude up out in the old unit below the skid road. But I want to just sit on the kill for a night before trying to do any calling. I've always bought the cat tag but never really went out specifically for cats though this year I'm gonna focus on it pretty hard.

[Annette]

LOOKS like a fawn bleat will work! Tie  up something in the air like a deer tail so the cat will go to that and not jump on you! My last cat was 5 yards 

[hardkorrhunter]

That's a good plan Annette!

[LRP]

Are you sure its a cougar kill?  Most cougar bury the kill, not always, but most of the time.  They usually eat the organs first then work on the top of the carcass.  Might be some thing other than a cougar.  I'm not there so you may be right, just a thought from looking at the photo.  Good luck, hope you get the cat if that's what killed it. 

[hardkorrhunter]

Lrp; From where it was killed it was drug about ten feet away stuffed in a pocket and partially covered up with the tall shrubbery. The organs appear to be what was ate first then onto the hindquarters what ever it was made pretty quick work of it it wasn't there the night before.

[BOWHUNTER45]

definitely GO BACK ... I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE THIS YEAR ...When I had my wife hunting we heard a deer being killed ...about 1/2 hour before dark ... had to be a cougar because coyotes would have made a hell of a lot of noise if they were killing it ....after going back a couple days later to hear ravens and coyotes just before dark I am 99 % sure I seriously messed up on that opportunity 

[hardkorrhunter]

Are you sure its a cougar kill?  Most cougar bury the kill, not always, but most of the time.  They usually eat the organs first then work on the top of the carcass.  Might be some thing other than a cougar.  I'm not there so you may be right, just a thought from looking at the photo.  Good luck, hope you get the cat if that's what killed it. 

No not sure exactly, I could not find any identifying tracks but it had been pulled up under a downed hemlock then partly cover by the surround brush just assumed cougar since it had been covered up.

[LRP]

Sounds good.  Get em. 

[rainshadow1]

Good pic! Thanks for posting it!

I'm a little late, but here's my  .....  There's lots gone already so going back will be hit or miss. They will tend it, but won't probably hang around much, just pass by. I've found kills with very little gone, covered up, but not buried, kinda lazily. That's the prime opportunity. Not saying it won't come back by this one, it likely will, just saying it probably won't to sit and feed for any amount of time at all.

Get 100 yards away from it and do a LOOOOOOOOOOONG calling stand... like 3+ hours minimum. That's why it would be checking back in, listening/looking/smelling for other cats to do the same. Call with vocals, and the fawn bleat. Catch it on the pass by. Set up so it feels safe investigating (thick, give it the uphill side of the caller, etc.)

[mulehunter]

Are you sure its a cougar kill?  Most cougar bury the kill, not always, but most of the time.  They usually eat the organs first then work on the top of the carcass.  Might be some thing other than a cougar.  I'm not there so you may be right, just a thought from looking at the photo.  Good luck, hope you get the cat if that's what killed it. 

   I agree with LRP.  Cougar normal cover it with brush, stick, etc.  I believe it was injury deer and died by Coyote take it down and ate little.  I may be wrong.  Male Cougar can ate WHOLE one night. Female Cougar would cover it and go bring kitten to carcass...   If it was me. Look at Deer if it has 4 scratch mark and see if cougar bite neck or cover nose with cat mouth to kill it. Or look around for trax on what kill it. Look up all trees if Cats climb up and wait with in 200 to 400 yds. or Call them in...  I would put up trail camera point at Deer.
Good luck.

[mulehunter]

Did you go back today to set up Trail Camera and see if Cougar ate all or Cover it from last night?

[hardkorrhunter]

Never did go back Im just now on the last day of 16 days stretch at work so you could imagine I haven't been ambitious after work with only an hour or two of light left. I should have trail cam on it first day I had it in my truck. Oh well I'm gonna try and track it once the snow starts flying.

[mulehunter]

Dang.