Oregon may open cougar use hounds.

[mulehunter]

   I am hope it wont change till this fall.  I may to keep my best friend dogs.  Hopefully it will happen for real.

http://www.kval.com/news/local/120298544.html?m=y&smobile=y&c=y


Mulehunter.     

[BOWHUNTER45]

Muledeer hopefully that does happen ... we need all states to step up and face reality... the only way to successfully control predators like cougars is with the aid of hounds ....IT IS NOT EASY BY ANY MEANS .. I had a permit a few years ago to use hounds in the northeast unit and hunted hard and never treed a cougar.. saw tracks but it was so cold and we never picked up a hot track...I just wish we could take all these anti people on a hunt and show them what is all about... I would love to take them out when its 10 degrees out and hike them a couple miles and watch them roll down a mountain or two ...then they might understand the pursuit and what it takes to be a hound hunter....We need to find a way to convince these people that this is a way of life... it is called conservation !!!!!

[mulehunter]

Bowhunter45,  yes very true. Its NOT THAT EASY SPORT.  I took boneaddict out on my hunt, I thought I might lost my two hounds in deep worst worst mountain. I have never had hardest thing I ever search whole place where they stuck down hole.  I thank boneaddict for his patient with me search all day found dogs and I had to push my dogs up cliff every one step a time with four feet snow.  This country with all predators are tough to hunt.  I can't believe Oregon have 5,700 cougars almost twice what we have in washington.
they may not offer Non-Residence permit or public.  I am waitting to hear what they have to offer.
wow first time Environmentaist group lost in house floor since 1994.  This hounds are only TOOL to manage the population.  I am excited to go with my best friend down there.  For sure there over 400 cougars possible few state record big Tom. None have killed most of huge Tom over 17 years.  I am very anxious to see who found oldest Tom.
Tenannway, washington four years ago biologlist I talked to found cougar with collared weight 198 lbs and over almost 9 ft.  Some hunter shot off road and never found for two weeks and bio tracked collar and found it.  198 lbs. Wow. 
I bet some over 200 lb hang out in Oregon.  Look forward to many stories.

Mulehunter. 

[Machias]

Could be good news!! 
 
Also don't believe the BS coming from WA about lion numbers here.  If OR has 5700 cats we have just as many if not more!!

[WAcoyotehunter]

Could be good news!! 
 
Also don't believe the BS coming from WA about lion numbers here.  If OR has 5700 cats we have just as many if not more!!

+1,  I don't like their population model at all!
 

[bearpaw]

Hope it gets signed into law, Oregon is overrun with big cats, CA needs it too, but will likely never happen there.

[denali]

At February's regional WDFW meeting the retired biologist got up and spoke and said that their cougar population models are not close, the cat population is way over estimates in the Blues.