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tlo7mm Super Member
Joined: Nov 15, 2010 Posts: 426 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:55 pm Post subject: First cougar |
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So my father in law and I were out deer hunting in some new grounds the other day. We seen a few deer but never got a shot on the only legal buck we had seen that day. we decided to walk an old skid trail because it had a lot of fresh activity and a lot of bear $h!t. When we were rounding a corner I could hear some brush movement but didn't think anything of it because all the noise the birds were making in the brush. Suddenly he reaches over and says wait. I started to peak around the corner when he says Cougar. I looked in time to see the cat make its way into the brush. I was totally blown away as I had never seen a cougar in the wild and here I was standing no more then 20 feet from it. I was so disappointed that I did not get a shot at it. It had an amazingly reddish yellow coat that would have been nice to hang on my wall. By the way we got on the discussion of cougar meat and what to do with it, I was curious if anyone had ever tryed eating it and how was it?
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Suzanne Super Member
Joined: Jun 27, 2009 Posts: 3323 Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Actually couger meat is very good, some describe it as like dark turkey meat. To me it's more like pork. You have to cook it on the rare side or it gets too dry. Hopefully you wouldn't skin it and leave the meat for the yoties, heck it's good meat! Check your game laws, I think around here you have to turn in the head or the skull to fish and game. Including snakes I've eaten just about every living (edible) thing that grows in Arizona. Now I'm workin on Oregon. Lots of animals to pass on here, possum, nutria, skunks, ermine but I'd like to try beaver (you know.....the ones with the wide flat tail) not the ones with the wide fat rump and really short hair cut, tatoos and rings in odd places.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15725 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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me too....
good to hear you are getting out amounst the critters tlo7mm the deer will happen.
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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moose2 it sounds like a few rounds of #7 buckshot in your pocket would be a sound investment. 30 odd .22 calibre hunks of lead should discourage you dog getting a hiding and give a nice rug for the den. I usually carry a few and a OO buck or two aswell you never know what you might find walking up creeks.
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Vince Site Admin
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Elvis wrote: |
...I usually carry a few and a OO buck or two aswell you never know what you might find walking up creeks. |
Only nasty critter you are likely to encounter would be a member of the Mongrel Mob wouldn't it Elvis?
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Elvis Super Member
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:58 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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yeah maybe, but the odd pig or deer has been known to be tripped over while out for a wander.Im ever the optimist.
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stovepipe Super Member
Joined: Sep 25, 2008 Posts: 4877 Location: Pine, Az.
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Cougar hunts are freakin' brutal! Once they know it's game on and they start going verticle- straight up and down the nasty stuff. Then the dog's tire 'em out bay 'em up up something you'd never climb in a zillion years. Now ya gotta whack it hard standing on something smaller than your boot cuz it's coming down in your lap and last thing ya want is one of them things all PO'd coming down from a tree while the front half still works. I got the itch once till I saw some films on the subject and I changed my mind. I aint that tough! There's some monster tom's in Az where I was, but the terrain was brutal steep, rocky, dangerous. Light snow or moist ground makes for easy tracking w/o dogs dry ya need a pooch or 7. Super tough hunt but gotta be the most rewarding in NA....esp some of the Tom's, they are massive!
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tlo7mm Super Member
Joined: Nov 15, 2010 Posts: 426 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Well unfortunalty we are not able to hunt cougar with dogs here anymore. As for big toms, a friend of my brother shot a big ol cat a few weeks ago which measured from nose to base of the tail 8 feet. Thats a hell of a big cat.
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stovepipe Super Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Killer. Hardly give them a tought in the woods but man are they out there.
And boy are they a force to be reconed with! Awesome hunters and I prolly look like a snack to most of them tom's.
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SingleShotLover Super Member
Joined: Dec 26, 2007 Posts: 1005 Location: Illinois
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:19 am Post subject: Re: First cougar |
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Darned things are popping up all over any more. There have been confirmed sightings in the Chicago suburbs and several have been seen off and on for years in the Galena, Illinois area.
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