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Title: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 02, 2011, 02:33:37 PM
I tried to get him a month ago with no luck.  He is still there.  3 more sightings in the area this week alone.  PM me and I'll show you where.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: 724wd on February 02, 2011, 04:47:25 PM
dang, you wanna come put me on a cougar here on the dry side?   :P
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 02, 2011, 04:51:05 PM
pm sent
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 02, 2011, 05:19:03 PM
PM's replied to
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 02, 2011, 05:19:30 PM
dang, you wanna come put me on a cougar here on the dry side?   :P

Sorry man, this thing just decided to make the woods behind us home.  I didn't find anything.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 06, 2011, 10:48:54 PM
Anybody that got the map make it out this weekend?
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 07, 2011, 05:05:02 AM
Nope. Figured the place would be crawling with HW members.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: Dirty Mike on February 07, 2011, 08:42:24 AM
pm sent
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 07, 2011, 11:28:38 AM
Nope. Figured the place would be crawling with HW members.

I only gave the map to 2 guys.  3 now with Masoncityhitman
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: joseph.rupp001 on February 07, 2011, 03:52:49 PM
I still have a cougar tag, i can try my luck. I live in Puyallup.
Send me your info or i can call you. Thanks for the oppurtunity.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 07, 2011, 05:07:26 PM
More than one is too much. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: chester on February 07, 2011, 05:09:18 PM
Geez...you should have txtd me.  :bash: if nobody gets it hit me up.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 07, 2011, 05:46:56 PM
Geez...you should have txtd me.  :bash: if nobody gets it hit me up.

Come on out.  The area is huge.  Can support 3 hunters at once easy I think
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bankwalker on February 07, 2011, 07:44:33 PM
you guys have 3-5 days before i get over there and kill that cat  :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 09, 2011, 05:18:20 PM
OK, this cat has to go.  I found tracks in my back yard today.  Kids are on lockdown.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 09, 2011, 05:33:14 PM
be by this weekend. ill still look it up. do you know the gmu off hand?
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 09, 2011, 05:58:48 PM
GMU is 633

Here's the PM I have been sending out.  Public knowledge now.  Gotta get this thing out of here.


It's been there at least a month and I don't think it's going anywhere if someone doesn't shoot it.

Timberlakes Community Club, west of town off of Agate Rd. off of Hwy 3.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi56.tinypic.com%2F29osxtj.jpg&hash=594d9963e4f7cf3a4ea044dc018a697a6362c698)

Park at the red dot.  Follow the green line until you get to the circle.  He/she has been spotted here all this week and as far back as a month ago.  I don't know how to cougar hunt.  I tried once and didn't see anything.  There are coyotes running crazy in there too.  hear at least 6 every night yipping and howling.  They were next door last night.  WAY too close but I never saw them.  Timberlakes is the housing development but, where you park and walk into is all Green Diamond land.  Use google maps to get a better view of the area in the satelite view.  Let me know what you see.  If you bag him, you have to bring him by my house so my kids can see.  I live about 2 blocks from where you'd park.

John
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 09, 2011, 05:59:23 PM
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/MGalleryItem.php?id=10362)

Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 09, 2011, 06:28:52 PM
right on. hopefully ill have a cougar to show off this weekend
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 09, 2011, 07:12:03 PM
Just bring it by my house first.  Call me if you bag him 360-545-3678.  You'll have to leave your name because it's a call screen, just say "I got the cougar"
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: mulehunter on February 09, 2011, 07:23:01 PM
Very cool.  I would like to add something, if its ok with u.  if people can't drive over west side from east wa.  You guys should check liberty orchard, palisades.  Just  35 miles from soap lake. Where i grew up whole my life. Deer population got crash. It pissed me off. But Lots cougars for you as boothunter.  Hope it can help you all.   :)   I used to have 15 bucks 4x4 with 50 does in our apple orchard before dark every day. Not same anymore. Now only 5 does or 2x2 or few. Not good sign.  Lots pravite land. But ask them for access. They definely will let u hunt cougar.



Mulehunter.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 11, 2011, 10:53:18 AM
he was in my back yard again last night.  saw his ass this time.  by the time i had my rifle loaded and back out on the deck, he was long gone.  i went down there this morning and saw clear signs of a kill.  fur everywhere, and a drag mark off into the trees with blood spatter all over it.  another local deer gone.  hope somebody pops him this weekend.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 11:03:00 AM
YES! good to hear he is on kills still in the area. be there in the am!
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: MADMAX on February 11, 2011, 11:24:58 AM
Ya
probably you and 20 of your closest friends
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 11:30:16 AM
HU?
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: BlackRidge on February 11, 2011, 11:53:56 AM
...expect company  :chuckle:

Good luck guys, sounds like this things gotta go
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 04:13:46 PM
Ya
probably you and 20 of your closest friends

Yep. This is the type of info that you keep under your hat and only give to the right person with the right tools. I can just see (and hear) the cacophony and chaos.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 06:40:12 PM
this guy is lying. there is no cat. no sign around. its not legal hunting land. i looked into it for all you.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 06:41:22 PM
 :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: rb2506 on February 11, 2011, 06:44:45 PM
this guy is lying. there is no cat. no sign around. its not legal hunting land. i looked into it for all you.
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 06:50:21 PM
If you hear me out there using distress and cat calls, I'm experimenting calling in yotes with cougar calls added into my distress calls. see how it goes
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 06:52:19 PM
If you hear me out there using distress and cat calls, I'm experimenting calling in yotes with cougar calls added into my distress calls. see how it goes

Not sure if you are serious or not, but I have an idea that using cougar vocals might discourage the dogs.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 07:06:47 PM
lol. No, but i will be down there before first light calling for that damm cat, i hope me being out there first will detour a crowd of guys down there calling sounding like a vet torture area, really hope it doesn't end up sounding like a mini Guantanamo Bay.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 07:10:20 PM
Good luck to ya.
I hope someone gets lucky, but I would place my money on an educated cat.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 07:19:53 PM
Im actually thinking not. being so close to a community in a rather small area my bet is its a younge male that got pushed out of his area by a large older male. Then again im not the most veteran hunter.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 07:21:31 PM
It is only going to take one person to screw up the set up or use the wrong sound at the wrong time.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: NaturalSelection on February 11, 2011, 07:41:33 PM
It is only going to take one person to screw up the set up or use the wrong sound at the wrong time.

agreed. If it's a problem near a community it needs to be taken care of but not educated by the wrong person trying to bag an easy cat.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: ICEMAN on February 11, 2011, 08:10:10 PM
Someone should see if rainshadow can pop down that way and sweet talk that cat into the crosshairs...
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 11, 2011, 08:15:41 PM
Someone should see if rainshadow can pop down that way and sweet talk that cat into the crosshairs...

Welll........let me tell ya...
I was gonna give him a holler to go with me and bobcat until I found out I wasn't the only one given the map. If he wouldn't have been able to make it, we were still gonna run his vocals.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 11, 2011, 08:20:49 PM
his calls are awesome. have them for my cs24
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bankwalker on February 11, 2011, 08:38:04 PM
well i was heading over in the morning....but it looks like i will be beat to the punch. maybe i will go hit the areas around matlock where i found alot of fresh kills recently.

Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: flinger on February 11, 2011, 08:46:38 PM
is this going to be a Shotgun start or do you have to wait for the party in ahead of you to clear out :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 11, 2011, 09:04:05 PM
Lets say CementFinisher gets tomorrow, Someone else can claim Sunday.

BTKR, I am PM'ing you another spot near by that I saw sign at today.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: True Sportsman on February 12, 2011, 12:18:32 AM
Lets say CementFinisher gets tomorrow, Someone else can claim Sunday.

BTKR, I am PM'ing you another spot near by that I saw sign at today.

I wish you would have PM'd me. I live in Timberlakes and have hiked back there quite a bit. Lots of predator calling experience, too.

I guess I will have to go in there and kill that cat after everyone else fails.

Good luck everybody! I'm kidding and I really hope somebody gets some trigger time...
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: chester on February 12, 2011, 03:21:51 PM
IS THIS THING NOT DEAD YET? 10 guys have said they were gonna go after it. has anyone actually gone? damn...if nobody gets out over the weekend i may have to actually drive across town on during the week. unless someone with experience wants to have a go. sounds like nobody has tried yet?  :dunno:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bobcat on February 12, 2011, 03:24:41 PM
Did you not see that CementFinisher was planning on hunting there this morning? (and who knows how many others)
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: mack2255 on February 12, 2011, 03:27:02 PM
 :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: chester on February 12, 2011, 03:31:28 PM
lol...yea but everybody has been claiming that spot for a week.  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 12, 2011, 03:43:03 PM
CementFinisher was there this morning.  He was the only one.  No cat dead.  Said he saw tracks too though.  Had a return call from a coyote but a local guy walking through spooked him off.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 12, 2011, 05:03:21 PM
CementFinisher was there this morning.  He was the only one.  No cat dead.  Said he saw tracks too though.  Had a return call from a coyote but a local guy walking through spooked him off.

A return call from a coyote?
Was he using coyote vocals on a cougar stand?
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: Houndhunter on February 12, 2011, 06:32:55 PM
i gotta a good cat dog, i mean..... i can could try calling one in lol
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 12, 2011, 06:47:03 PM
i gotta a good cat dog, i mean..... i can could try calling one in lol

 :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 12, 2011, 07:03:59 PM
 :sas: lol no, started yipping during a 3 or so minute distress call, thought it was odd. You have to cross allot of open ground think it would be hard to not get busted. allot of people hiking. allot of deer sign. I about caused my self to soil my shorts when i thought i had clicked on rainshadows RS Cougar Whistles ER09 but had accidentally selected foxpro cougar in heat, heart bout tore out of my chest. Never seen any sign of a kill. Seen big cat tracks in some clay, didn't look real old. btk or anyone else that calls allot, if you go done there please post how you went about entering and setting your stand.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: GlennGTR on February 12, 2011, 07:48:38 PM
Officer Tim Ripp, lives back in that area, he hunts so you might want to give him a call if you know him.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 12, 2011, 09:32:35 PM
Nope.  Don't know him
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: raekmike on February 13, 2011, 11:26:52 AM
Whats the latest?    :dunno:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: tommyjohnston on February 13, 2011, 01:53:14 PM
Seriously Im on the edge of my seat!!!!
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: runamuk on February 13, 2011, 02:03:17 PM
Actually its likely it is really bigfoot....I mean if it was a real animal it would be dead and we'd have proof of its existence  :dunno:   :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: raekmike on February 13, 2011, 02:22:40 PM
Or bigfoot's pet kittty......"another myth un-confirmed"
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: Huntbear on February 13, 2011, 02:42:52 PM
well we all know it is the "governor" running around in those woods.   :P
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: tommyjohnston on February 14, 2011, 05:44:43 AM
Or its like Lobo the wolf who ran rampid for a decade.............
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: MADMAX on February 14, 2011, 06:05:59 AM
Sounds to me like a frickin cluster you know what
A boat ramp on derby day

I have a called in and killed a cougar in Jefferson county , they just don;t pop up in a clearcut and say shoot me.

Get back in the thicker stuff, find some lanes,  call and protect your back.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: gaddy on February 21, 2011, 03:29:24 PM
what ever happened with this cat??
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: HuntNFish on February 21, 2011, 04:10:15 PM
what ever happened with this cat??
:yeah:  I was thinking the same thing???????
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bobcat on February 21, 2011, 04:19:23 PM
Still out there eating deer would be my guess.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 21, 2011, 04:25:36 PM
Still out there eating deer would be my guess.

This.  Was in my yard again last night.  I saw the tail slip into the woods when I went out for a smoke.  I go outside with my .45 everytime now.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: CementFinisher on February 21, 2011, 04:33:16 PM
From what i understand it would be very odd for a cat to be in this area for so long even with a plentiful food supply
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: billythekidrock on February 21, 2011, 05:32:44 PM
From what i understand it would be very odd for a cat to be in this area for so long even with a plentiful food supply

Not necessarily odd, but maybe it is not even a cougar? Maybe a big house cat?
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: Bob33 on February 21, 2011, 05:45:17 PM
Not necessarily odd, but maybe it is not even a cougar? Maybe a big house cat?
:yike:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 21, 2011, 05:46:02 PM
There is plenty of food around.  At last count, Timberlakes CC held a herd of deer more than 50 strong.  This didn't even count the deer that lived in the timberland north of here, where the cougar has been frequenting.

And I have seen it.  It's not huge, I guess, having no other reference, but it is not a house cat or a dog.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: littlemac on February 21, 2011, 06:06:04 PM
From what i understand it would be very odd for a cat to be in this area for so long even with a plentiful food supply

I doubt it's a tom.  Most likely feeding the litter.  Especially if as it sounds to be a smaller cat from this thread.  She has to hang around.

A cat "relocator" I know said the tom's are always looking to make a litter and they can't do that hanging around.

Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: mack2255 on February 21, 2011, 06:20:03 PM
Sounds like you need a cuddy cam. get us some pics 8)
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: littlemac on February 21, 2011, 06:25:34 PM
Sounds like you need a cuddy cam. get us some pics 8)
:yeah:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on February 22, 2011, 06:58:59 AM
Well, seems as though it is all over.  Got word last night that the Sheriff is bringing out 2 relocation traps today.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: mack2255 on February 22, 2011, 04:18:22 PM
Well sit at the traps and  :bfg:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: gaddy on February 28, 2011, 05:22:52 PM
well what happened? did the sheriffs get the bugger in thier traps? we need the rest of the story to put this to bed.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bobcat on February 28, 2011, 05:26:53 PM
I'm surprised the county sheriff would take on this responsibility. Seems more like a job for the WDFW.  ???
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: gaddy on February 28, 2011, 05:31:49 PM
i agree but last post by doublej stated that the sheriff was bringing a couple of relocation traps. this has been like a movie that you missed the last couple of minuites of & you just have to know the ending. or it will haunt you.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: bobcat on February 28, 2011, 05:40:09 PM
Yes I did read where he said the sheriff was dealing with it, but just seemed odd to me.   :dunno:  I'm curious with what happened also but I doubt we'll ever hear anything more.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: engelwood on February 28, 2011, 10:14:15 PM
I doubt we will either.
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: DoubleJ on March 01, 2011, 10:27:40 AM
I haven't seen the cat or signs of him/her in a week.  Even with the fresh snow, there were no tracks in my yard like there had been.  Sheriff won't comment but 2 traps are missing from their trap yard on John's Prairie road.  They normally have 5 there and last I saw there were 3.  It's anyones guess as to the outcome  :dunno:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: Ghost Hunter on March 12, 2011, 11:26:32 AM
Release it in the SW corner.  Still holding a tag in the house here  ;):chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone around Shelton want a shot at a cougar?
Post by: rgalanti21 on March 18, 2011, 02:33:20 AM
PM sent.
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