need help now-anyone that attended the cougar seminar

[tlbradford]

I have a cougar sounding off about every 10 minutes with a sound similar to the cougar female sound foxpro has.  What should I do?  Switch to distress, cougar whistle, coug in heat.

[Big10gauge]

Mine came in on the cougar in heat after calling them in using the whistle.

[bearmanric]

Kitten in distress and the whistle. Rick

[whacker1]

wow very cool.

[grundy53]

good luck

[Kain]

Fingers crossed. 

[tlbradford]

Thanks guys, switched up to kittens, but all has been quiet for the past 20 min.  I probably blew it by trying the kitchen sink method.  I'll follow up tonight with some details.

[tlbradford]

Packing it in at the 1hr 20 minute mark.  Hopefully, I'll get lucky and it will stalk me on the way out.  Never did hear another peep, but those calls I did hear were the most excited I have been in a long time.

[bearmanric]

it's pretty cool. i've heard around 5. first one as soon i started calling it whistled saw it cross in front of me around 50 minutes later young one was on. had one behind me behind the house. was calling coyotes lucky bird. it whistled 45 time's. must have been very close to me when i walked by. it was a younger one also. was seen several times around offut lake here. it's very exciting. going out tomorrow Finely. Rick

[Big10gauge]

Mine did exactly that also, I figured that they probably act the same as a Bobcat and was still close even though no sounds from them. Used the cougar in heat to try to get them to respond, one came in fast growling and it's ears layed back. Good luck

[carpsniperg2]

It something else, when you are hunting the bog predators! a diffrent feeling for sure. To bad it didn't make a appearance.

[tlbradford]

No luck on the walk-out either.  I had a few hours between meetings so I hit a spot close to Spokane that has produced a bobcat before.  If I would have gone home the wife would have put me to work.  Luckily, I had my crap with me.  Just for grins I started out with a set of 4 cougar whistles, waited a minute, did 4 cougar female callls, waited a minute, and then did the cougar in heat for two sequences, which is also about a minute.  Then I went silent.  A couple of minutes later I heard a cougar call.  Just a real short roar, almost identical to the female cougar sound I had played.  It is tough to tell distance with all the timber, but I would guess around 800 yards away.  I waited a little longer and then went with some more cougar whistles, just 3, and went silent again.  A minute later it sounded off again, same sound, and it did not sound any closer.  I waited a little longer and got on here to ask for some advice.  While waiting I put on "calf elk distress" and let it run at a low volume for 10 minutes or so.  Then I went back to what I started with (whistles, female cougar, and cougar in heat.  I waited 5 minutes and then switched to kitten distress after getting advice from you guys.  I was worried about overusing whistles or other cougar vocals.

I realized how unprepared I was for what to do if something actually called back to me.  Hopefully, Steve's presentation is available pretty soon.

For Rick and Big 10:

What kind of durations and frequency were you using for those calls.  Continuous? 

Thanks for the advice guys.

[Big10gauge]

When the cougar responded I would respond back it was probably about 5 min apart. After no response for approx ten min I let go with the in heat call and had almost a instaneous response with the cat coming in fast. Whole thing lasted about 30 min.

[btlsoom]

I thought Steve indicated during the seminar that he had most success using the whistle.  I recorded the seminar (did not come out all that great)  and have viewed it a couple of times.  He is big on the whistle.  I have sent the disc to BTKR as he is going to make some tutorial from it.  Once I get it back, I will forward it to you if you want.  Also, I bought his DVD which has his call sounds you can use as well.

Randy