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Offline trophyhunt

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Re: why hunt cougar?
« Reply #30 on: May 20, 2015, 08:03:37 PM »
Very tough critter to hunt with just boots, I would think calling is your best bet.  I've been hunting since I was 18, now 45, and I've only killed one.  Maybe seen 5 in my hunting life, and I have spent many hours, days in the woods.  I hope you kill as many as you can, they eat a lot of deer. I got lucky when I killed my only cougar, I was in a tree stand hunting deer and it came in and layed down.
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Re: why hunt cougar?
« Reply #31 on: May 20, 2015, 08:11:12 PM »
cougars only let us live.  I'm alive by their choice.  They see me, they've stalked me, they've watched me, and I live because they decided they didn't want to kill me

I grew up with rocky Spencers nephews....he once said that for every two days spent I'm the woods at least one cougar has made the decision to not kill you

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Re: why hunt cougar?
« Reply #32 on: May 20, 2015, 08:16:44 PM »
Very good eating.  :twocents: Make sure is cooked well.  :tup: I usually smoke cougar and bear.
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Re: why hunt cougar?
« Reply #33 on: May 20, 2015, 08:19:25 PM »
Washington has taken the best tool for cougar hunting, dogs.  We could selectively harvest, catch and release, cats with hounds. Now the boot take has thrown several wrenches in the cat machine, no selective harvest skews the population and territories are not as stable as they could be.  Good we can still hunt them since it keeps a little fear in them, it is very unusual to have cougar/human conflict with a hunt in place.  From the number of trail cam pictures I see on this forum I would be very surprised if the WDFW population guess has any merit.  Hunt away, they will be fine.

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Re: why hunt cougar?
« Reply #34 on: May 20, 2015, 08:32:14 PM »
The meat is absolutley one of the best game meats I have had.  Shot one last September.
Family loves the meat.

Absolutley awesome meat.even my kids loved it.

 


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