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Calling Cougars?
emskou:
--- Quote from: JakeLand on December 01, 2019, 04:04:10 PM ---Yesterday I did 4 different sets with a foxpro furry and nothing came in (visually) but hiking into my 3rd setup I seen thee biggest blacktail buck I’ve seen he dwarfs what’s on my walls and he wasn’t 300 yards from my setup that I was running the caller at
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I'm going to need gps coordinates of this buck....I'm still trying to fill my late tag :chuckle:
dilleytech:
Is there any consensus on what the best distress call is? Rabbit or deer for example?
KFhunter:
I think the call is much less important than being at the right place at the right time.
It's hard to answer that, as calling in a cougar is a rare occurrence. I've had them come into dying rabbit being blasted at nearly full volume and a decoy wagging around, but it hung up and I didn't see it until I quit my stand and stood up, then it slunk off and I couldn't get on it.
I've had them come in numerous times elk hunting, blowing a soft cow call occasionally. I wasn't cougar hunting, but they came none the less, and close!
so IMO I think they'll come in if they want too, that is *IF* they hear it. If one's napping 100 yards from a fresh kill I'm not sure anything will get it to come, maybe some cougar vocals might get it up, I don't know.
At the top of this forum section there's a sticky thread about this with a lot of reading, it's 11 pages and that's after I've deleted most of the cougar women references that pop up every stinking time there's a cougar thread.
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,185537.0.html
7t9cobra:
--- Quote from: KFhunter on December 02, 2019, 01:54:53 PM ---I think the call is much less important than being at the right place at the right time.
It's hard to answer that, as calling in a cougar is a rare occurrence. I've had them come into dying rabbit being blasted at nearly full volume and a decoy wagging around, but it hung up and I didn't see it until I quit my stand and stood up, then it slunk off and I couldn't get on it.
I've had them come in numerous times elk hunting, blowing a soft cow call occasionally. I wasn't cougar hunting, but they came none the less, and close!
so IMO I think they'll come in if they want too, that is *IF* they hear it. If one's napping 100 yards from a fresh kill I'm not sure anything will get it to come, maybe some cougar vocals might get it up, I don't know.
At the top of this forum section there's a sticky thread about this with a lot of reading, it's 11 pages and that's after I've deleted most of the cougar women references that pop up every stinking time there's a cougar thread.
https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,185537.0.html
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I agree. location is everything. I don't think the type of distress matters that much. When I called the first cat in, I was using ranting redbird and baby cottontail. It came in at 24 minutes. When I called the second one in, I was using elk calf distress, blacktail fawn distress, blacktail doe distress, raccoon fight then switch ed to cougar vocals after around 10-15 minutes. It came in around 26 minutes. I think as long as it's loud and sounds interesting and convincing to the cat it really doesn't matter.
jasnt:
--- Quote from: KFhunter on December 02, 2019, 10:30:55 AM ---
--- Quote from: jasnt on December 02, 2019, 10:27:17 AM ---I use rainshadows call and have gotten a lot of vocal responses. Never had one walk in like it owned the place
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You ain't the only one
--- Quote from: KFhunter on October 21, 2019, 02:49:48 PM ---Hasn't happened to me yet, I have the rainshadow whistle, I have all the RS cougar vocals and chirps...made my own, I got prolly 20 lion vocals and I studied what each is for and have yet to see a cougar "stroll in"
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i lied, my very first call in I had a cougar come walking right in to the wide open. Was elk hunting 113. Had been playing Radom elk sounds and spotted a cougar half mile away sitting on a burm over looking the valley between us. Was the year I killed my first cougar. It dropped in the valley and I figured it was the last I seen of it. 20 min later it was right below me. Was already tagged out so I yelled at it and it ran off.
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