Who else hunts mountain lion?

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I live over here in oregon and i don't find myself really hunting deer or elk that often at all. Most of the time i spend hunting it's for mountain lion. Thats all i really put my heart into hunting, thats all i really hunt! Dont get me wrong i'm not a commie who is against elk and deer hunting..really....i'm just not that good at it.
i was just wondering if i'm a fruit loop or if theres anyone else who prides themselves in hunting things that will hunt you back.
 
Here in CA, mountain lions are allowed to hunt people, not vice versa. Consequently, there is a small but increasing control of the human population of hikers, joggers, mountain bikers and other assorted "users" of wildlands.
 
Because the <political types> know better than the Dept. of Fish & Game, wildlife biologists, hunter-conservationists, ranchers and folks with common sense. There are more of the former and they voted in a permanent moratorium on killing Mountain Lions. The ML apparently liked the vote, 'cause they now kill and eat a couple of people each year. That number will increase in direct proportion to the number of ML, now that there is no ML predator. DUH - I love this state!
 
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Haha - shhhh don't get the thread closed.

I never have but I would think deer are a heck of a lot easier to find than lions. I'd love to take some predators but there are only yotes in the areas I hunt and they are pressured pretty heavily - come very close at night but evaporate during visible hours.

Feel free to share some knowledge about how to lion hunt, I certainly think there's a lot of herbivore wisdom around here but anything different is fun to read. Not to mention between national events and the gun seasons coming up, I can't do anything but waste time on gun boards lately :p.
 
lol i would love to talk with you about mountain lion hunting but i don't know where to begin. lol
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Why don't you start by telling us where you find mountain lions? You could describe whether you find stalking the animal more effective than hunting over bait.
Do you use dogs? Do you hunt alone or with other hunters?

Hunting cougars in Washington is still pretty limited.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/hunter/cougar/cougar_regs2008.pdf
How does Oregon compare?

That's how you start buddy.
 
Hey fourdogs,



What exactly did I say that is incorrect? There is a moratorium on ML hunting in CA because of the people I described who allowed their emotions to override the professional and educated recommendations of people who live with and study the ML. We told them there would be an increase in ML attacks on people. Guess what, we were right and there has been. And it will increase.
 
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I spend a few days in Wyoming for work and a few locals told me lion was excellent eating (I actually stranded a rent-a-car in a mountain pass where there were lots of lion tracks). Were they pulling my leg?
 
My cousin said about 10 years ago that he saw one on the power lines here in northwest Georgia. They have been re-introduced, I believe that 4 were released into our county. We have a bike trail that traverses the county...hmm, I wonder what could happen.

I don't know how aggressive they can be, don't really know anything about them. If they are anything at all like a bobcat, they will be very reclusive. I'd never shoot one just to be doing it, like a rabid animal or a snake. (don't start on the snakes with me, not interested in hearing it) If one were to endanger me or my family or someone else in the forest, I'd be obligated to put it down. Sad, but it would have to be that way.
 
Hunting cougars in Washington is still pretty limited.
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True. Plus I have yet to see on in the wild during any hunting season. I would suspect you would need to bait or hunt them with dogs to be reasonably successful and since you can not do that here, well......
 
Why don't you start by telling us where you find mountain lions? You could describe whether you find stalking the animal more effective than hunting over bait.
Do you use dogs? Do you hunt alone or with other hunters?




I usualy find mountain lions around the time when does start droppin thier fawns, watching deer trail is pretty effective, watching elk heards is another. not stalking the elk but doing circles around the herd.
on the edges of cow pastures just before dark, cow pastures are usualy pretty promising.
Any where with good lookout positions, rock faces or more bald areas "less trees" are good, but once again they do fallow the food so it could put you in some nasty canyons where youl just have to sit for hours, find the tracks and hit it hard.
i like to track them alot.. and if i'm not in the mood for that, calling is always promising, youl call in a wide range of predators, hopefully youl get a mnt lion eventualy.
i do not use dogs... i enjoy the hunt.
most promising for me is...
mnt lion in estress scent "they don't make it so youl ave to obtain it yourself".
doing some calling "female mountain lion calling" now they don't make that call, but i recorded my little cousin screaming and played the tape in my predator call. mountain lions scream really high pitched so it works really well!
and no body ever wants to go with me because most people are kinda spooked by that sort of thing, so i always hunt alone.
 
I ain't no chicken but them big cat howls are freakin creepy!!!
I took care of an ol' guy's cat yard and got to listen to a plethora of exotics. His cats were the ones used in the 1970's ford/lincoln/mercury commercials. As a matter of fact the huge globe they would leap up on and roar was there and my father renovated the paint work on it as it spent 15 years in the florida sun. But anyways... I got to feed and watch bobcats, mountain lions, lynx, jungle cats, lion, jaguar, a young tiger and some others... Watchin' a cougar swat a 9 pound bowlin ball across a 15 foot enclosure made me much more aware when out in the woods... we don't have much shear face here but I am always lookin up in the trees....
I never knew that stalk and spot was a viable method. I thought it would require a gut pile and/or dogs as was said above.
Brent
 
I have never hunted Mountain Lions, that said I have been hunted by several. Working in upper Boundary County many years ago on 2 separate occasions a LARGE cat followed and circled me. Latter that year a F&G officer killed a 190 lbs cat in the general area for stock deprivation. :eek:

I now have the time to walk each day in the woods, I am not fearful of Bears, but am keenly focused on Dogs and Cats. Trust me in this, never ever turn your back to one of these cats, it will be your last act!

Good Luck & Be Safe
 
Actualy ive tried the gut pile or carcuss tactic and it has never worked for me. it always brings in bears or coyotes but never a moutain lion.
Mountain lions enjoy fresh to 2 or 3 day old kills they arent scavengers. unless they are a starving 2 year old...which i could see. i'm not trying to intrude on any body's beliefs but this is what ive know and gathered myself, if it works for you then that great :D
but ive always noticed they will take a seemingly fresh vulnerable baby deer that they can kill themselves "because they do enjoy the killing part".
over a nasty gut pile... but thats in these woods once again.:D
 
Naw I don't hunt them as we don't have a population in need of control. we have some bobcats and a ton of yotes and both are open season non game animals in Florida. I am a hog dogger and will shoot food critters just to fill freezers. Any incidental kills of less than desirable creatures go to the bulldogs with the exception of yotes as that is too close to cannibalism for my tastes...
Brent
 
Seems to me that it's not righteous to hunt anything where the population is low. Doesn't matter what it is. So, places like Florida or Georgia, they're there, but just for the occasional glimpse, not for hunting.

My part of west Texas, while it varies with movement, there are times around here where we're "bum deep in lion poop". They are difficult enough to hunt that the occasional kill won't hurt the population any, and they make a nice hard-earned trophy. However, most kills are incidental during deer season and the population continues to expand in numbers and range.

And they make for danged fine meat to eat.
 
Art, That is exactly how I look at it. If I ever do get into predator callin', I may take one Bobcat just for the pelt but would pass on a cougar and would do my best, including bustin' off a round, to scare it off. I would also never mention to anyone but my wife and kids where I seen one so as not to get it killed by another.
Brent
 
they are good eats... bear is good eats to but unless it's smoked or put into jerky it's pretty greasy for my tastes. Like eating sheep almost :)
 
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