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.
