Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 07:50:22 AM
Question: Is it common for them to use the same site for multiple kills? The pics I have seen are only one animal.
Sorry no pics (left the dang camera at home)
Post by: CAMPMEAT on May 16, 2011, 07:53:06 AM
I wouldn't think so.
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 08:03:21 AM
I'm thinkin' Yates is on the loose.Funny you should say that. That was my wifes first thought when I told her
I wouldn't think so.
Post by: CAMPMEAT on May 16, 2011, 08:29:35 AM
Post by: saylean on May 16, 2011, 08:34:16 AM
Post by: blindpig on May 16, 2011, 08:51:36 AM
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 09:00:04 AM
It is pretty weird though. Was it near Spokane or further away ?Near Colville
Post by: Hornseeker on May 16, 2011, 09:05:57 AM
Last year we found a spot in the Pryor Mts like that. A cat had about 3 or 4 buried carcasses in about a 100 yard square area. IT was a nice secure area and i think he was definitely dragging kills in to this common area. They were definitely of different ages...
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Post by: runamuk on May 16, 2011, 09:08:32 AM
Post by: bearpaw on May 16, 2011, 09:08:56 AM
Turkey hunting this weekend, with my son. We came across what I suspect is a cougar kill site. I have seen pics on here before of deer covered with pine needles/debris. This one site had 4 distint piles of debris and deer hair/bones in each. Not fresh, but still gave me the willy's being there. I was certainly watching our backsides after that.
Question: Is it common for them to use the same site for multiple kills? The pics I have seen are only one animal.
Sorry no pics (left the dang camera at home)
Where I have seen multiple kills at the same site was when females had small kittens and would drag the kill back to where the kittens were stashed. I suspect you found a site where a female is keeping her small kittens nearby. Was there a rocky area or thick brush nearby?
I have seen where an 85 pound female cougar dragged multiple cow elk 1/4 to 1/2 mile back to the rockpile where her kittens were hiding in. I bet there were bones from a half dozen elk in a 75 yard wide area, with cougar female and kitten tracks everywhere.
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 09:11:06 AM
Was each site a separate animal? how close together were they?The entire site was only about 20 feet in diameter, 4 distinct piles of needles/sticks and each site had deer hair, one had some other kind of fur. There were very few bones (I didn't dig around) My son was getting kinda nervous and wanted to get that behind us :chuckle: Wish like heck I had picks, and sifted through the debris.
Last year we found a spot in the Pryor Mts like that. A cat had about 3 or 4 buried carcasses in about a 100 yard square area. IT was a nice secure area and i think he was definitely dragging kills in to this common area. They were definitely of different ages...
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Kind of ironic, we walked up on several deer and a coyote within 200 yrds of it.
I may try to go back next wknd and take the camera with me. I will post it if I do.
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 09:12:42 AM
Post by: CAMPMEAT on May 16, 2011, 09:19:37 AM
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 09:23:47 AM
I'm not going to Colville again, ever.:chuckle:
Wait till fall when you have a tag in hand
Post by: rainshadow1 on May 16, 2011, 09:43:53 AM
It's what they do for a living...
Post by: saylean on May 16, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Post by: quadrafire on May 16, 2011, 10:34:26 AM
Thanks for the input all!
Post by: turkeyspark on May 16, 2011, 12:16:50 PM
Wow!
What trail was this on? I know you guys were planning to go down the river a ways. Is that where you spotted that?
On my first afternoon out, I hiked in about 2 miles up in that area (other side of the river and up those hills to the south of camp). Pretty sure I ran into some old cougar tracks just a little ways off the road. Wonder if that's that same area. I was probably a quarter mile from the river where I saw them.
Spooky.
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on May 16, 2011, 12:48:13 PM
-Steve
Post by: Shed Stud on May 20, 2011, 08:20:28 AM
Post by: quadrafire on May 20, 2011, 08:55:19 PM
Thats kinda what I thought. I gotta get a camera, and it is about 1 1/2 hrs away from home. Nothing fresh, but It would be cool to see never the less
Post by: bearpaw on May 20, 2011, 11:36:33 PM
:yeah:
Thats kinda what I thought. I gotta get a camera, and it is about 1 1/2 hrs away from home. Nothing fresh, but It would be cool to see never the less
Good luck, cats often come back to old kill sites if they are unsuccessful at hunting for a few days. Hope you get some pics.
Post by: goosegetter79 on May 23, 2011, 11:52:23 AM