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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Gobble Gobble on January 25, 2010, 03:56:46 PM

Title: another cat down
Post by: Gobble Gobble on January 25, 2010, 03:56:46 PM: I'd post pics but there on my phone and I don't know how to post them on the net :(

Its the second cougar killed in as many months on YTC both by people I work with. It was an adult female weighing 133lbs. not sure of the length but it was as long as his trucks tailgate.
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Post by: luvtohnt on January 25, 2010, 04:01:18 PM: Here ya go. I just got the text about 5 minutes ago. If you text a message to your email from your phone the picture will be attached (for future reference).

Brandon
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Post by: bowhunterforever on January 25, 2010, 04:17:46 PM: Thats a big female,Congrats to the hunter. :tup: Did he call it in or did he just see it and shoot it?
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Post by: MtnMuley on January 25, 2010, 04:20:36 PM: Huge female at 133! Sweet!
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Post by: huntnphool on January 25, 2010, 04:28:41 PM: I was under the impression that shooting the females was frowned upon? :dunno:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 25, 2010, 04:29:02 PM: that is great, love to see cats wacked, i didn't think the season was open over there for cats still thought it was permit :dunno: but i am not sure don't follow that area to much i thought the only ones that were still open was the hounds and all but one of those is shut down for kill.
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Post by: tlbradford on January 25, 2010, 04:44:42 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on January 25, 2010, 04:28:41 PM
I was under the impression that shooting the females was frowned upon? :dunno:

With houndhunters it is, since they can positively identify the sex. When they get this big, it is very hard to determine the sex for a boot hunter or even a call in.
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Post by: bucklucky on January 25, 2010, 04:50:35 PM: Dang!! Thats definately a huge female.
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Post by: Axle on January 25, 2010, 04:58:28 PM: The deer and elk thank you!
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on January 25, 2010, 05:10:47 PM: Nice kitty!!
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Post by: Gobble Gobble on January 25, 2010, 06:19:23 PM: Thanks Brandon for the post. I'll try and text the other pics to my email and post the rest.
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Post by: Wea300mag on January 25, 2010, 06:44:19 PM: Another great cat, congrats to the hunter(s).
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Post by: Raul Duke on January 25, 2010, 07:11:23 PM: Nice cat.
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Post by: saylean on January 25, 2010, 07:22:33 PM: awesome work. The cats are taking a hit this week!
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Post by: bearpaw on January 25, 2010, 10:03:05 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on January 25, 2010, 04:28:41 PM
I was under the impression that shooting the females was frowned upon? :dunno:

In many cases you are correct, everyone would prefer to take toms, but considering the current cat hunting situation in Washington and the fact that a boot hunter had the opportunity to get the cat, I don't think it is frowned upon any more than a hunter in Idaho taking a female wolf. :twocents:
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Post by: cohoho on January 25, 2010, 10:33:06 PM: Very nice for sure.... What a wonderful animal..
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Post by: Deep Forks on January 25, 2010, 10:58:54 PM: Awesome cat, will provide memories for years to come :)
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Post by: huntnphool on January 25, 2010, 11:10:09 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on January 25, 2010, 10:03:05 PM
Quote from: huntnphool on January 25, 2010, 04:28:41 PM
I was under the impression that shooting the females was frowned upon? :dunno:
In many cases you are correct, everyone would prefer to take toms, but considering the current cat hunting situation in Washington and the fact that a boot hunter had the opportunity to get the cat, I don't think it is frowned upon any more than a hunter in Idaho taking a female wolf. :twocents:

Thanks guys. :tup: I'm hoping to draw one of those tags one of these days, needed the low down.
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Post by: gramps on January 26, 2010, 03:00:07 PM: Nice Cat...congrats Gobble Gobble !!
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on January 26, 2010, 03:16:04 PM: Nice Cat :tup:

I would think that the male/female thing would be a bigger issue in a state where the cat hunting was not so limited (like ID or MT). I don't know for sure about the rest of the state, but here in the Blues I think we have enough of the things eating our deer and elk that shooting a female shouldn't be an issue, as long as she didn't have kittens.
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Post by: Gobble Gobble on January 26, 2010, 05:44:50 PM: Here are a couple more pics of the cat.

Again, she was taken on the Yakima Training Center (not by me) but a fellow co worker. The deer and elk have had it hard between the cougar and coyotes so a dead female is no lost sleep to those like me who work down range and the biologists who work at the base. Weighing 133 lbs she has been eating more than just rabbits and sage grouse.
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Post by: Blsum on January 26, 2010, 09:26:02 PM: Sure would like to get my hands on one of those. :drool: So what's the story with the cat. I understand a guy you work with got the cat. Did he have a special permit for it, hound or boot tag? Did he call it in? :dunno: Just curious. Give em a pat on the back for me. :brew:
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Post by: rainshadow1 on January 26, 2010, 10:49:35 PM: Would love to hear the story, but yeah... Calling, tracking, sitting on a kill, or even just strolling, a Cougar is a Cougar...even with my sounds echoing through the hills! Bang! (I might take it a little slower next season, though, this sitting on my hands is no fun!)

That is a HUGE female!
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Post by: Gobble Gobble on January 27, 2010, 10:11:43 AM: He and another co worker were down range doing a road condition check (it snowed here Sunday night) and came across the tracks in the road in an area where it was believed she was living (found deer kill in area a couple months back). One had a tag so they both came back turned in slips to take the rest of the day off and went home to get armed. They followed the tracks to a pond where she darted out of the cat tails no more than 5 feet from the shooter. He got one shot off as she ran hitting the back left hip shattering the pelvis and traveled up through the lungs and out the front right shoulder breaking it as well. She ran over the dike and then started walking where she hid in a 2 foot wide culvert under the road, with a light shined on her (about 20 feet into it) he put a second shot into her head crushing the skull killer her. The weapon used was a 30-06.

The hard part was crawling into the culvert after her that was half full of rock and mud (not a place to go if claustrophobic) to tie a rope onto her. The person going in had a rope around his ankles so that he could get pulled out himself.

No, a special permit is not need to hunt on the base (except deer/elk state raffle only) just a Recreation card that cost $25. We get a lot of upland game hunters here (just wish the sage grouse were legal).

The other cat taken back in Nov/Dec we had for lunch in chili and as steak. She tasted good, light meat similar to pork. Not sure what this guy planes to do with the meat. He is going to have a full mount done though.
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Post by: blindpig on January 28, 2010, 08:49:32 AM: OOh yeah!!!
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on January 28, 2010, 09:12:26 AM: Cool story. Too bad the skull got busted up with the finishing shot. They make cool euros. 8) thanks for posting the story too.
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Post by: C-Money on January 28, 2010, 09:28:05 AM: Wow! Very good story, A good Lion in this state is a dead one anymore. They sure kill a lot of game. Glad the hunters had a good experience and good recovery of a big cat!
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Post by: zackmioli on February 08, 2010, 09:16:42 AM: cool story!