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Cougar
« on: November 16, 2022, 03:59:27 PM »
My neighbor just called to say there was a big buck in their yard. Cool maybe he will be there tomorrow. 10 minutes later I get a call that this Cougar was in the back yard.

This is GMU 568. What's the odds we can kill this thing? Is Westside sightings few and far between that we might not see it again or will it be back? Neighbor is blasting a predator call as I'm typing.





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Re: Cougar
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2022, 04:10:52 PM »
The west side is crawling with cats... it'll be back.

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Re: Cougar
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2022, 04:24:48 PM »
That's a healthy looking cat.
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Re: Cougar
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2022, 04:40:54 PM »
If you aint hunting, you aint livin'

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Re: Cougar
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2022, 05:17:00 PM »
Looks like you have the range dialed in...
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Re: Cougar
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2022, 08:25:35 AM »
Looks like you have the range dialed in...
:chuckle: I was thinking the same thing.
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Re: Cougar
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2022, 09:37:38 AM »
Was it following the deer?

If it took a deer nearby, it'll be around for a couple days.

Yesterday would have been better, but it's still pretty good 'sign!'

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Re: Cougar
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2022, 10:44:32 AM »
Whack em!!

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Re: Cougar
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2022, 02:00:50 PM »
Was it following the deer?

If it took a deer nearby, it'll be around for a couple days.

Yesterday would have been better, but it's still pretty good 'sign!'

("Blasting a predator call" indicates to me that not a lot of care and craft are being put into the hunt... not the best idea. It could leave just because it's annoyed!)

I'm all ears for a better way to get it to pop back out. Can't think of any other legal way to hunt it in the surrounding timber.

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Re: Cougar
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2022, 09:23:33 AM »
Fawn in distress or rabbit distress call will work, i called cougar and killed it that way...  Put hammer down, you can call it in..
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Re: Cougar
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2022, 04:01:28 PM »
Was it following the deer?

If it took a deer nearby, it'll be around for a couple days.

Yesterday would have been better, but it's still pretty good 'sign!'

("Blasting a predator call" indicates to me that not a lot of care and craft are being put into the hunt... not the best idea. It could leave just because it's annoyed!)

I'm all ears for a better way to get it to pop back out. Can't think of any other legal way to hunt it in the surrounding timber.

Yeah that makes it tougher... If it's on a normal route... (It looks like a nice big cat, it could be in its own established territory) ... then it could be a week to 10 days before it's within earshot again. Just really difficult if you can's stalk in after it and try to find enough sign to figure out what it has in mind.

Long term in one spot, I'd use less constant, less loud distress... and incorporate occasional loud low threat vocals like the whistles and the talkative calls.
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Re: Cougar
« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2022, 06:31:09 AM »
Locklear's Cat Collector.
He will continually come back to it. You don't need much.

 


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