2015 Unguided Public Land MT Cougar Hunt
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So far the gutsiest part of this endeavor is shooting arrows toward your garage door! I could never work-up that much courage!!
Awesome Scott! Looking forward to hearing the rest of your adventure!
P.S. Good luck to Ryan tonight!
Keep it coming - love the photos.
Carl
Looking forward to the story!
looking forward to the rest of the story but also want to know how many holes are in the garage door.
This should be good!! I was also wandering about using the garage door as a backstop.
I'm enjoying your adventure. Keep it coming!
Can't wait for the rest of the story! Doing my research now on cougar outfitters! Hope to be hunting one in the next 2 years!
You won't loose an arrow shooting up there. Don't change a thing but do a post the video of lowering the door to retrieve an arrow from it. Ha!
Way to go Scoot I have been needing a good story! Thanks and good luck to your son!
Looking forward to this!
Wish I had a shop with a door big enough to get the target up high enough to shoot at!!!
So far looking good!
Good luck, Robb
I've been waiting all night.... find any tracks yet??? :)
Whoopsies! Glad no one was hurt.
Wow! Glad no one was hurt! Although the boyfriend may not have stayed that way when they got home!
Brotsky, HA!
Maybe SHE was telling him how to drive!
I could never imagine a woman doing that though;>)
Glad they were OK.
we now move to the happy happy joy joy part of the show, where humans(who are by far the worst equipped to go up slopes like these) try to get up to a location that a mountain lion thought was a pretty good spot to throw dogs off the trail. Will the cat succeed? Did the dogs succeed in treeing the cat? (I guess we already know that, for now) How will the hunters get up the ridiculous slope? I'm staying tuned.
More, more, more please!!!
You're killing us Scoot! :)
Nice pics can't wait for an update.
Is it the NORM to cut tracks at night?
It is when you have a lot of competition. You set the track and wait for legal light. It keeps others from finding it and running it before you do. God Bless
There are other options. Ever watched one of your competitors turn out on what they think is a huge Tom track. Only later to find out it was really an elk track! Makes for some great video!
Ok, Scoot, it's "tonight"! Can't sleep without an update!
Damn you, Scott! Cruel! This had better be worth the wait if I'm going to stay up all night waiting...
Since it taking Scott so long to climb the dang hill... the hounds have probably left the tree or either starved to death.
I'm with jaquomo damn you . Lol
Man that's exciting. Congrats and my local deer herd thanks you. Thanks for posting. We needed a good thread. Hunt
Man....I can picture, feel and even hear the whole thing!
That was a classic. Well done and well told
That is a awesome story! Congrats!
Outstanding! Congrats, Scoot!
What a well written story. Thanks for sharing.
Congrats Scoot!!!!
Awesome story and awesome adventure. Really appreciate the extra trophy photos. Not sure why the "obligatory cougar hug shot" has become the standard - we don't do it for any other animals, but except for showing size compared to a human I find it a tad goofy LOL. The other trophy photos you have are so much more impressive IMO.
I tried to get one with bow several years ago and ended up having to use pistol. It's on my list to go back after one again with bow and your story certainly whetted my appetite!
Thanks so much for sharing and taking us along on your adventure!
Carl
I might have missed it and I apologize if I did but what did he weigh?
I can't believe you wear Sitka clothes and a Kuiu hat!! ;)
Congrats Scoot you are more of a man than me!!
Congratulations on a great hunt Scoot! You obviously had a great experience and appreciate the finer aspects of lion hunting.
Taking the time to get good pictures is hard in the midst of all the excitement,so well done.
Awesome bonus photos. I concur full-body mount is $$$. I still haven't pulled the trigger with mine; hide was tanned & then frozen. I've seen really neat shoulder pedestals, but I hesitate to chop the hide in half.
Not sure how to dedicate wall space or $, so I share your dilemma LOL.
For a short time I simply hung the tanned hide like one would do with a cased coyote or fox hide and actually liked that quite a bit, but my taxidermist was afraid that it would dry out too much and be prone to cracking if we decided to proceed with lifesize, so it's out of sight hydrated in the freezer. Not sure that's serving any real purpose at the moment...
Best of luck with your final decision!
Carl
Congratulations Scott! What an amazing adventure and a story well told. Thanks for sharing!
Great story Scoot. Congratulations on a beautiful cat. I think I would need to clean my pants if that all happened to me. Wow!
Great story!!! It was worthy of being published in a magazine. Thanks for sharing it with us instead.
Congrats on a great cat.
Scoot, most expected 170 lb cats end up being far smaller than that when they are accurately weighed. :)
Lions and wolves are almost universally given greater in the field weights than they actually have.
Unless a cat was weighed on accurate scales at the time a weight is stated, you can figure a houndman's estimate to be 20-30 lbs. heavy. Thus a 140 is a 120 and a 120 is 100. :)
Most cats that are killed even mature ones weigh in the 85-120 lb. range. Bigger ones definitely do exist and in some locales are more common, but a 150 lb lion is like a 265 lb. buck. A 170 lb. cat is like a true 300lb whitetail.
I'm not saying any of this to diminish your trophy in any way. It's a beautiful mature cat and you should be proud of him! Just trying to add to the pool of knowledge that can be found on Bowsite.
This cat had all of us guessing his weight in the 130-140lb range before he came out of the tree. An accurate scale dampened our estimates when it pegged at 110 lbs. It had the biggest track we had run in years and we were expecting him to be a monster. However he just had big feet for his body size.
Congratulations Scott... awesome hunt and a great report!!!
Scoot, that last cat picture is fantastic! I bet it's the current wallpaper on your work PC.
Good stuff, Scott! Thanks for taking us along
Excellent write up and pics congrats!
excellent animal and story. worth reading every single word.
How many times did you utter the phrase "Here kitty, kitty, kitty!"
You are a master story teller and the subject matter on a cold winter day is even better. Thanks for taking us on the ride!
Go Bison!
Great story, thanks and congrats!
Great story and lion Scoot!!!
Good luck this weekend:)
Mark
Super great story and excellent supporting photographs!
Thanks so much for sharing!
CD
Wow, and Awesome!!! Great hunt and great story. Congrats on your accomplishment
Awesome story Scoot, thanks for sharing! Love your pics as well!
Thank you so much for sharing your story Scoot. Very well written. I sure enjoyed it!
Awesome, Great hunt, story . thanks for taking us along. Forrest
Amazing story!! Thank you for sharing!
That was freaking awesome Scoot! Congrats!
Incredible story Scoot! You did a tremendous job in bringing us along with you! One suggestion though. Maybe you could take some "smiling" lessons from your son so you could truly convey your feelings. He seems to have that down pat:>)
Your description of the contortions needed to make your first shot sure brought back some memories! A lion hunt is an incredible experience from all aspects for sure!
Also, the lion pic you stated was one of your favorites is awesome! It looks like a painting to me.
Congrats & thanks again for sharing it with us!
Congrats on a great adventure and nice cat! I thought you said this wasn't a guided hunt? Lol It seems like you had a much better experience and effort put in by all than an outfitted hunt!! Congrats again, I really enjoyed the write up.
DJ
An absolutely amazing writer up.. Thank you for sharing
Another epic thread for ya Scott!!
Thanks for sharing and Congrats on your Mnt. Lion.
Good luck, Robb
Completely missed this thread as I was gone...Wow, is all I can say... Congrats Scoot. If you can do it, go full body. You'll never regret it.
Great thread, congratulations! I'm glad you took the time to take pictures and post them!
Very cool. Very cool. I love those photos. Congratulations!
Congrats Scoot, great story! Mike
Great story Scoot! Grats on your lion!
On behalf of every ungulate in the area, I thank you. Great writeup (and tease). And congratulations on a clean kill, especially when it got really up close and personal.
I wonder how many arrows you'd waste practicing shooting straight up? And where the heck they'd go?
Scott! AWESOME!!! Great story and CONGRATS! You won't forget that hunt anytime soon!
What kind of mount you doing?! :)
Congrats Scott and thanks for doing such a great job of sharing the experience!
Congratulations and great story. Love seeing/hearing good dog work.
"Thanks guys. Looks like I'm going full body on the mount."
YEAH!!! :)
Awesome hunt and very well told and illustrated!! You had me right there with you. One of the best threads I've read on Bowsite. Thanks for sharing and CONGRATS!!
