Question for the cat callers

[jamesjett]

I was out yote hunting last weekend.  I set up on my final call about an hour before dark.  About the 30 min mark I was about to get up and head back to the truck.  Off to my left I heard what I thought might have been a hawk
scream...well then I heard it a few more times but it had a deep growl sound at the end.  I have been calling
in yotes for several years and have never heard anything like this.  It actually made the hair on the back of my neck stand up! I was thinking I had possibly called in a bobcat??  Any experiences like this?  I heard it 4 times and each time a little farther away it seemed..downwind behind me. My partner heard it also.

[CementFinisher]

If it was a chirping sound or whislte sound with growling you may have called in a cougar. wouldnt sound like a hawk though. not much sounds like a hawk they kinda stand on their own

[FALFire]

Probably an Owl.

[jamesjett]

Probably an Owl.

Maybe so! I do see quite a few owls out there.

[bearmanric]

On the coast over the year's when i'm calling i have had them whistle. First was in 1993 as soon as i started one whistled al like a elk chirp.. the cougar crossed the grade in fron of me 50 yards. normal slender cougar. I'm going up later this year. one was called in by there during bear. and another spot during elk one was seen several times. Excited to go i have good cougar vocals now. Rain shadow makes a great cougar call. I got to hunt with steve Rainshadow in Arizona in a very good cougar area. It sounded very real. maybe this year i'll call one in been close a few times. Rick

[Kain]

Here is a thread with lots of cougar sounds.  They can make some crazy sounds that you would not think could come out of a cat that size.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,31894.msg378271.html#msg378271

[jamesjett]

On the coast over the year's when i'm calling i have had them whistle. First was in 1993 as soon as i started one whistled al like a elk chirp.. the cougar crossed the grade in fron of me 50 yards. normal slender cougar. I'm going up later this year. one was called in by there during bear. and another spot during elk one was seen several times. Excited to go i have good cougar vocals now. Rain shadow makes a great cougar call. I got to hunt with steve Rainshadow in Arizona in a very good cougar area. It sounded very real. maybe this year i'll call one in been close a few times. Rick

Rick,

I was using the raspy jackrabbit closed reed distress call set I purchased from you.  I did not hear any whistles..but definite scream turned throaty growl...I had never heard this before. 

I did purchase a whistle from Rainshadow as well....have yet to try it out. 

[bearmanric]

That yesr at the Predatormasters hunt Rainshadow I think had a cougar growling just above him Ridge. And another person had one growling in a dry creek bed close to him a couple times. I havnt heard a scream yet. That cougar in 93 was calling with a Haydle government cottontail call nice and Raspy. Rick

[jamesjett]

Here is a thread with lots of cougar sounds.  They can make some crazy sounds that you would not think could come out of a cat that size.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,31894.msg378271.html#msg378271

The female in heat is very close to the sound I heard!  What time of year do they go into heat?
I heard this four times.  I listen to the Bobcat growls and that was nothing similar to what I heard.

[Kain]

Most common time of year is spring but cats dont have set breeding seasons.