Cougar Call-in Stories...

[bearmanric]

my first cougar call in was in 1993. back then my Favorate call was the Haydle Goverment Cottaintail. that was the year i started guiding bear hunting. seen several cougar's in the Road. i hunted a gated roadf next to the olympic park. i went in to a 4 way. parked my mountain bike and walked the grade to the left till i came to a long straitaway and i new a grade to the right was about 50 yards ahead of me. i got settled in with my back to a small tree. as soon as i started calling a cougar start chirping very close on the other side of the Road it was well under a 100 yard. kept calling but at lower volume. it only chirped a few more time's. at around 40 minutes it like glided across the Road to my side of the road wich was a 6 year old clear cut. brush. it was a sleander normal size cougar. younger one i think. i startted calling more. was 15 mintutes or so nothing. then i got nervous. there was a elk trail there were i was exspected to see a cougar head looking at me. so i backed out of there. have heard qite a few cherping on the coast over the year's and one 500 yard's behind my house. that story later. been addicted to cougar calling ever since Rick

[rainshadow1]

Thanks Ricky! That's a good one!

Please let me know if ANYONE else has any stories....

[bearmanric]

i have plenty more. just very busy. Rick

[Rudy]

Just checked out your page with all the lion stories on it.  Great work rainshadow!    cant wait to read more of them!

[rainshadow1]

Thanks Rudy. I'm excited to have it and then share it. It shows how we're figuring these cats out!


Ok, 15 down! I've got a couple more of my own, and I'm waiting on at least 6 more, but I think they'll come through...

 Any more? You got one to share?!?!

I'm considering also posting another catagory of call-ins where the big cats showed up on Coyote/Bear/Bobcat/Etc. stands. Surprise call-ins! Mostly for fun, but I suppose some information could be extrapolated, even though the event was a surprise to the caller! Post 'em up if you feel like it! I'll get to them!

Thanks tremendously for the stories that have already come in!

[rainshadow1]

Ok, it's official! I'm going to post "Surprise" call-in's too.

Might not get them posted immediately, but eventually they'll get there!

If you've ever called a Cougar by accident, or allowed for the possibility, and sure enough... I'd love to use it if you're willing!

Post 'em, or send them to me... Thanks!

Just put Missing's story as the first Surprise call-in story!

[Rudy]

I wish i had a lion story!  Never had an encounter, not even on accident!  Hopefully I dont have to wait too long for this to change 

[rainshadow1]

Really rolling, guys... I'm past 20 and due to get 4 or 5 more for sure. I have one more to post myself!

Remember, ANY called Cougar story has a spot on this page now, so post up a link or re-tell a story or whatever!!!

[rainshadow1]

If anybody who has a story posted on my page has a pic that I could add to it, I'd appreciate it! The ones with pictures really stand out!

Thanks again, to all who have contributed!

[bearmanric]

going calling tomorrow in good spot. .i'll have my camera. might do a hand calling for cougar in a good spot with my Flip camera show how i would hand call for a cougar. Rick

[rainshadow1]

Ok, one last bump just to mention that this is a perpetually ongoing thing. . .


If you're reading this, I want your Cougar Story, and your pics!


Please contact me!


And thanks again to all who have contributed! It's a great pile of stories

[rainshadow1]

I've gone back and edited the page, it's getting pretty long... Thanks to all of you who have contributed a story!   

I numbered the stories. It's getting a bit long for a one sitting read, and some of you lost your stories in the mix, so I anchored myself to the order, and numbered them. You can go back and start where you left off, or you can send people over to read your story!

I also made an easier to read page color and format, and I changed the text color of my own comments.

I hope it's a lot more user friendly now...

Again, if you have a Cougar Call-In story, I want it!!!

[MADMAX]

OK here's mine probably posted before and on predator masters but Its the only one I ever called

Well here's my story,this happened in 02,, been calling predators for a couple of years with
 good success on coyote's, had a bobcat come in last year and couldn't get a
good shot off, he was locked on me and soon as I moved gone. Anyway I Went out to where my bud's had seen a cougar during bow season,,
 It was my 4th trip over there to the same spot with zero results, saw some poop and some tracks but nothing else, used some info from the web and some info from old Fishing and Hunting News articles on calling cougars so I figured I'd work around ridges and where I'd spotted deer before, I wanted to go out on the opener for blackmouth but the
snow  that year screwed that up.
So Saturday the 17th I got up hooked up my boat trailer and was heading out for a day of fishing,,, but the snow and meltoff had refrozen so I thought better of towing a $40,000 jetboat that morning.
I backed the boat into my garage and figured I'd go over to Tarboo lake near Quilcene and call coyotes, went there a lot over the years,, parked in my same old spot and went in to the same old stump that I've killed a few  coyote's from and also missed the shot on the bobcat, it's a sweet set up, I hunt in the bigger timber and call where the timber corner meets the
clear-cut and the doghair.
 I figure how the wind works and use it to my advantage, it blows down tree's in this particular spot and when you call it makes the critters that come in
stay on established game paths ,,,, usually at least the coyote's do.
The bobcat came in so quiet he was locked on me at less than 5 yards away,,,
I missed but I went and bought a 22mag 20 gauge over and under and used it
that year except for the last couple trips for my predator hunting, That
is,until my one buds Ken said,,, " you over there messing with that cat" I said yep,,, he said better use a bigger gun ,,, he's big,,, that got me thinking so I switched to my favorite varmint gun the Ruger mini 14 in .223. 12 shots.
It makes me feel better than having 2 shots. So I get down to my stump and start checking things out for the setup,,,,
the setup is everything. I moved twice before I ever called that morning and
also saw some tracks that I thought were bobcat ,, due to their size,, I thought to myself cool that bobcats still here,,,I got all comfy and put my headnet on and started my calls, I call for 1 hour at a spot and about 5minutes apart and try and stay real still except for moving my head, so I give a few squeals and notice a woodpecker fly over in front of me working
on a blowdown tree,,, I think cool this is good it's making the squeaking noises woodpeckers make, and I'm thinking this is good it will draw anything that comes in towards it,, so I wait a few minutes and call again ,,,,
stop sweep my head back and forth and back again,,,, all of sudden I see it ,,,
 I recognize it as a cat looking at me from behind a horizontal blowdown
 tree,,,, just the head peeking over it,, then it hits me,,,, it's a cougar,,, I think,, I don't want it getting no closer ,,, it was at about 50 yards,,, so I pick up the mini 14 and put the peep on it ,,,,, bang,,,,got it,,, head shot,,, I run over stop and check it out ,,, I'm tight and ready
at the same time ,,,, all business,,, so just to make sure I pop it again in the chest,,, dead kitty.
 I now check it out it's a female ,,, so I make darn sure no 1st year cubs
are with it and make a bunch noise as to scare anything if there is.
I get to the truck and get a tag on it.
The cougar turned out to be 110 lbs. and seven and half feet long female.
Beats a 7 pound blackmouth any day.
I look at the rug everyday and she was excellent eating, I used a burnham bros C-3 reed shoved in the end of 8 inches of auto fuel line

[MADMAX]

I'd post a pic of the rug If I could figure out how

[Rudy]

Dude.....i wanna see the rug!!!