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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #105 on: December 10, 2019, 10:25:05 AM »
We'll see, Gramps. I don't agree with scorched earth eradication, but I think wolves should be shot (at least shot AT) whenever they're in range. This protection and proliferation is just a bad bad idea. Both in numbers and in socialization. I dread the "wait and see what happens" management approach to wolves.
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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #106 on: December 10, 2019, 10:26:15 AM »
If you're finding a ton of wolf tracks try getting higher up on the ridges and rocks

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #107 on: December 10, 2019, 10:27:48 AM »
We'll see, Gramps. I don't agree with scorched earth eradication, but I think wolves should be shot (at least shot AT) whenever they're in range. This protection and proliferation is just a bad bad idea. Both in numbers and in socialization. I dread the "wait and see what happens" management approach to wolves.

I agree.  It used to be a thrill to see one or sign of one.   Now it just turns my gut

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #108 on: December 11, 2019, 02:18:47 PM »
Somebody (who shall remain nameless, who just killed a Cougar with an ivory call) requested an Ivory Cougar Whistle!

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #109 on: December 11, 2019, 02:27:14 PM »
Sweet!


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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #110 on: December 11, 2019, 03:04:53 PM »
My crew is pretty good at whistling cougars.

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #111 on: December 11, 2019, 04:41:15 PM »
So all I’d tell my girlfriend I want for Christmas is your cougar calling set up, any chance you can spoil it and let me know if a calls been shipped to Republic? If not I’ll have an order after Christmas. Cut 4 tracks in the fresh snow searching for elk, seems like the cats were too!
May my presence go unnoticed, may my shot be true, may the blood trail be short.

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #112 on: December 11, 2019, 05:29:47 PM »
Somebody (who shall remain nameless, who just killed a Cougar with an ivory call) requested an Ivory Cougar Whistle!

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Cant wait to try it out, but i guess ill have to.  Stuck in seattle for a couple more days.  But when i get home, a friend is chomping at the bit to get a lion, and come january ill be calling lions and wolves in idaho, so ill get a chance to break that call in soon.  Thanks again, looks awesome.

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #113 on: December 11, 2019, 06:45:45 PM »
That is awesome
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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #114 on: December 12, 2019, 03:30:04 PM »
So all I’d tell my girlfriend I want for Christmas is your cougar calling set up, any chance you can spoil it and let me know if a calls been shipped to Republic? If not I’ll have an order after Christmas. Cut 4 tracks in the fresh snow searching for elk, seems like the cats were too!


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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #115 on: December 12, 2019, 06:09:55 PM »
All I found were bob tracks everywhere



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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #116 on: December 12, 2019, 06:36:28 PM »
All I found were bob tracks everywhere



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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #117 on: December 13, 2019, 05:31:16 PM »
Got on a nice lion track, looked to be a nice big female and no cubs following her. So I started trailing her.





Got down in the woods a good ways, it was hella fresh track




I was trying to get a since of where it was as going, but appeared to be hunting or just milling around aimlessly




So I started looking for a good place to setup,  kinda half way following the lion

Danget!  I went to far in trailing it




Not hard to see what she was doing when I came busting up on her trail   :chuckle:








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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #118 on: December 13, 2019, 06:16:15 PM »
She was making snow angels.......

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Re: Calling Cougars?
« Reply #119 on: December 13, 2019, 06:21:49 PM »
It didn't look like she busted out hard, thought she mighta not been sure what I was so I tried to call;  I thought about charging down on her making a ton of noise to see if I could get her up a tree. decided that'd be a good way to bust my one good knee  :bash:

so I went down a ways and off to the side and tried calling.  no response.    tried a chirp whistle, nada


So I went down to the bottom of the ravine I thought she may have fled down and got in front of her,  about an hour later set up another call site.  nada


drove a big circle around the area, she never crossed a road.  To bad I gotta work in the morning



 


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