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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Huntin4Ever on June 01, 2015, 05:29:39 PM

Title: dead cougar
Post by: Huntin4Ever on June 01, 2015, 05:29:39 PM: Cougar hit by a car along Lake Crescent this morning. I have never heard of a cougar getting hit by a car???
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Post by: 2labs on June 01, 2015, 05:39:21 PM: Wolves don't get hit either! Maybe more of both than we are being told. Or wdfw really is clueless.
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Post by: Gringo31 on June 01, 2015, 05:48:09 PM: Awwwww

:'(
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Post by: Jellymon on June 01, 2015, 05:48:15 PM: Quote from: 2labs on June 01, 2015, 05:39:21 PM
Wolves don't get hit either! Maybe more of both than we are being told. Or wdfw really is clueless.

I took my cougar pelt with everything attached to get sealed in olymia and they couldt figure out if it was male or female. So im voting for both.
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Post by: 2labs on June 01, 2015, 06:04:12 PM: One of my favorites
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on June 01, 2015, 06:12:44 PM: That's crazy ...definitely something you do not see on an everyday basis :tup:
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Post by: wadu1 on June 01, 2015, 06:13:36 PM: I was one on the way up Tiger Mountain last year and a nice Bobby in Montana this year.
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Post by: bradslam on June 01, 2015, 09:36:52 PM: I saw a dead cougar in late April just off of Miles-Creston Road at the top of the hill north of Hawk Creek (Lincoln County). I assumed it was hit by a car, but it was kind of decomposing so it was hard to tell if someone shot it and dumped it or if it was roadkill.
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Post by: h2ofowlr on June 01, 2015, 09:42:43 PM: Saw a dead cougar up past Cougar, WA a few years back. Then saw another hit just east of Hamilton. I just think they last two long along the side of the road. They get loaded up into a rig pretty quickly.
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Post by: GrampasGuns on June 01, 2015, 11:51:33 PM: Years ago in Redmond, where Redmond Ridge apt. Complex from hell is now. I witnessed a guy on a Harley Davidson nail a cougar going about 70. Neither fared well , cat was obviously dead and the biker was in seriously bad shape. Will never forget that
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Post by: bowhunterforever on June 01, 2015, 11:51:52 PM: To make a long story short me and a buddy ran over a cougar in a jeep and we dukes of hazard it for a couple hundred feet after we hit it. the cat lost in the end and we got lucky, its a crazy story
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Post by: elk247 on June 02, 2015, 12:14:21 AM: Quote from: bowhunterforever on June 01, 2015, 11:51:52 PM
To make a long story short me and a buddy ran over a cougar in a jeep and we dukes of hazard it for a couple hundred feet after we hit it. the cat lost in the end and we got lucky, its a crazy story
I feel short-changed. :chuckle:
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Post by: bowhunterforever on June 02, 2015, 12:18:25 AM: no further comments, the cat lost and we got lucky, its unbeliveable
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Post by: pianoman9701 on June 02, 2015, 06:35:09 AM: In Maine, one of the factors they use to determine the population of moose is the number of road kills they have in a given area (at least they used to use that info). I would surmise that if there are an increasing number of cougar road kills, that might lead us to make a certain assumption about their population growth. :dunno:
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Post by: bearpaw on June 02, 2015, 06:54:01 AM: I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.
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Post by: ELKBURGER on June 02, 2015, 08:38:30 AM: Quote from: Gringo31 on June 01, 2015, 05:48:09 PM
Awwwww

:'(
:yeah:Poor wittle puddy tat.
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Post by: Netminder01 on June 02, 2015, 08:48:56 AM: Quote from: bearpaw on June 02, 2015, 06:54:01 AM
I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

.... "yet" :IBCOOL:
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Post by: Biggerhammer on June 02, 2015, 02:06:31 PM: I've come close to hitting them at night in unit 266 on the larger dirt roads.
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Post by: Special T on June 02, 2015, 02:12:51 PM: I had a buddy from college that wrecked his truck chasing a cat crossing the road into the ditch with his girlfriend beside him... He was a hard core cat hater...
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Post by: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 02:17:16 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on June 02, 2015, 06:54:01 AM
I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.
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Post by: raydog on June 02, 2015, 05:27:39 PM: Quote from: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 02:17:16 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on June 02, 2015, 06:54:01 AM
I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.
Of course they were accidents right?! :chuckle:
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Post by: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 05:38:38 PM: Quote from: raydog on June 02, 2015, 05:27:39 PM
Quote from: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 02:17:16 PM
Quote from: bearpaw on June 02, 2015, 06:54:01 AM
I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.
Of course they were accidents right?! :chuckle:

Honestly at 1am in the morning I see a flash of brown and my foot's on the brake hard. No time to think "oh that's a cat" it's just automatic brake as if it were a deer. As the front bumper of the car is skimming the blacktop in a full emergency brake nose dive I see "oh that's a cat" then it's over.

Last one jumped over the guardrail in front of me as I was travelling along a river then ran down the road in front of me, I was in a full brake nosedive but bumped it in the butt, the tail slapped down on my hood and it spun around and clawed the car then sailed straight up in the air. I was along some steep cliff faces but the cat scrabbled up those cliffs like it was the Tasmanian devil, clouds of dust and rocks rolled off the cliff from it's rapid ascent.

Quite impressive.
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Post by: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 05:42:53 PM: I commute through a deer winter range so see a lot of cats, in one 20 mile stretch I've seen two in one night run in front of me.

GMU 105, where the annual cougar harvest is 2 cats :bash: :bash: :bash:
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Post by: Special T on June 02, 2015, 05:45:31 PM: It sounds like you need a cattle catcher for your Prius KFhunter! :chuckle:
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on June 02, 2015, 05:45:52 PM: The paper delivery lady that runs the rural routes (2-4 am) has told me of seeing lots of cougars and bears in the road around that time frame.
I saw one in the road last year but it was a good 200 yds ahead. It was in the woods before I could get to it.
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Post by: KFhunter on June 02, 2015, 05:50:31 PM: sometimes they just run out of sight then wait for you to pass, not a good idea to stop and walk over where it went off the road :chuckle:

Yup - know someone who did that and found themselves nose to nose with a cat that ran across the road then stopped just over the edge to wait for the car to pass :yike:
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Post by: HntnFsh on June 02, 2015, 05:51:46 PM: Quote from: JimmyHoffa on June 02, 2015, 05:45:52 PM
The paper delivery lady that runs the rural routes (2-4 am) has told me of seeing lots of cougars and bears in the road around that time frame.
I saw one in the road last year but it was a good 200 yds ahead. It was in the woods before I could get to it.

You obviously need a faster rig! :chuckle:
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Post by: AspenBud on June 03, 2015, 03:37:57 PM: This one got popped just outside of Woodland a couple of years back...

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Very-angry-cougar-on-I-5-troopers-say-201619261.html (http://www.katu.com/news/local/Very-angry-cougar-on-I-5-troopers-say-201619261.html)