North Louisiana cougar

[Axle]

Just got this from a friend:

Here is a photo of a cougar killed 5 miles west of Cotton Valley .

The guy who shot it is 6 foot tall and weighs about 220 lbs. He was in a deer stand and saw the cat pass him downwind. He then saw it pass him upwind. When the cat passed him again (closer this time) downwind, he knew that it was hunting him. So…. boom.

After viewing this do you feel safe in the woods?

My comment: Those states back east denied they had cats for a long time. hmmmm should be tasty!

[bowhuntin]

No picture?

[Axle]

oops

[WDFW-SUX]

Yawn, that cat was killed in Issaquah. Its on the Boone and Crockett trophy watch several years back.

[Wazukie]

Ya, was just going to say that last time I seen that picture it was killed in Washington

[Houndhunter]

 , this happens alot

[jackelope]

My comment: Those states back east denied they had cats for a long time. hmmmm should be tasty!

my comment:
there's been lions around issaquah for a long time.
 

[GoldTip]

My comment: Those states back east denied they had cats for a long time. hmmmm should be tasty!

my comment:
there's been lions around issaquah for a long time.
 

Well there has certainly been plenty of Cougars anyway......

[Machias]

It amazes me how these internet stories keep popping up every few months/years.  I even got the one the other day about the mule attacking the lion.  Too funny!!

[NWBREW]

 

After viewing this do you feel safe in the woods?

 

I always feel safe in the woods.....safer than I do in the city.    And happier too. 

[Axle]

Now that you mention it, I think I remember it too.

Didn't know it was getting twisted like that.

Thanks guys! I'll tell the guy who sent it to me.

Axle

[jackelope]

he can sleep again at night.

[carpsniperg2]

2 funny

[quadrafire]

That is still a big ass cat regardless where it came from!

[Wanttohuntmore]

I think I know him, he used to live in North Bend, now is in e.WA.  He also guides in Africa.  Funny how these stories change but the picture and the truth is always the same.

[yakimarcher]

thats a big kitty

[Michelle_Nelson]

As far as I know Cougar are not even legally allowed to be hunted in Louisiana.  I know they were not in GA, FL, and AL

[@RCHER]

Wow, talk about a blast from the past. Finally, some whitetail farmer back east killed a world record cougar. Sweet!

The guy holding the cat is Jim Hackiewicz. He owned Custom Osteo, a skull cleaning and skeleton articulation service company in North Bend, WA - east King county. He does also outfit/guide hunters in S. Africa these days.

From Boone and Crocket...

The big tom was taken by Ron Hisler from Duval, WA, with one shot from a .30-06 shooting Barnes X bullet. His partner, Jim Hackiewicz used a varmint call to bring in the big cat – taken within 6 miles of Bellevue, WA. Bellevue is a major suburb of Seattle. Washington voters passed a bill banning the hunting of cougars with dogs a few years back. Good idea?

UPDATE: Unofficial score – 15-12/16, which would be in a 6-way tie for #7 all-time. Included in this list is a 15-12/16 tom taken by the only American President in the records book – Boone and Crockett Club Founder, Theodore Roosevelt, which when entered was the World's Record at that time. Roosevelt took his cougar near Meeker, CO, in 1901.