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This would wake your Azzz up, for sure if you were Solo, still hunting through the dark timber with your bow.
Enjoy,
Robb
Wow! Dang, sounds like one of those audio clips of Sasquatch I'd heard...8^)
Tell you what, I couldn't imagine being in the middle of nowhere hearing that in the dark of night without having a weapon... I'd had to check my drawers for sure...8^)
Wow, that is a crazy sound.
Thanks for sharing vid . Actually was blessed once too hear that as I just gotten in bed like twenty feet from my bedroom cabin window. I swear it put a smile on my face of course because I was inside a solid structure. It beats listening to traffic noises , etc .
Kind of makes a person wonder why it's screaming?
Face to face with another lion, or maybe a bear???
Definitely sounded like it was pissed about something.
"Kind of makes a person wonder why it's screaming?"
My guess would be romance, ever heard alley cats mating....
Mating Red Foxes at this time of year on a cold still night will make some chilling screams too...
What I want to know was what my wife was doing in those woods. But I'm not too angry, it may have been after I got a bow for her....great trade!
The kid is calling with an E caller correct?
Murph X 2. Pretty sure the kid says “mountain lion in heat. See if it works” right at the beginning.
No, it's a 50+ year old cougar in lust...8^)
Very cool. Certain sounds just reinforce the fact that you're in a place where you are not at the top of the food chain. A pack of Wolves Howling for instance.
Every time someone posts a recording of a Fox screaming (asking what it is on social Media) around here, someone will say "that's a Fishercat".
Not sure where that came from or why it started, but I guess knowing what a Fisher is makes you 'cooler' than knowing what a Fox screaming sounds like. Then of course someone else will say "it's called a Fisher, not a Fishercat" and someone else will chime in with the opinion that they are the most vicious thing in the woods, and will kill cats, dogs, deer and small children. Amusingly predicable.
Well, that's a relief. If it was in heat, it definitely wasn't my wife!
I’ve heard that at close range a while back. I’ve had a few close encounters with cats while elk hunting. The one where I got screamed at, I had set a stand over a wallow a few miles in. While heading in under a full moon an hour before light, the lion screamed at me from less than 50 yards. I had reached the small meadow with the stand and knew right away what it was. After the second time I saw the lions silhouette in the moonlight across the meadow. Only thing I can figure was a female with young ones. I got to the stand and up in a hurry! She screamed at me 4 or 5 times before she left, and I never saw an elk there the rest of the week!
Dang! Wouldn't want to hear that in the dark
Wow...yep, that's a mountain lion alright...but...daaammnnn!
From the sound of it, I'd almost think that papa lion was about to begin the mating process, and missed!
I'm going Mnt. Lion hunting next week and have my e-Call if I want to use it.
Mainly cut fresh tracks in the snow and go after them from there, No dogs just a Solo hunt for me.
It's going to be super warm for the first week of February though, 50's for highs and 40's for lows and RAIN, over above Flaming Gorge, Ut. -Wyo border.
Soooooooo
Robb
Robb - Reminds me of a book I read as a kid, (wish I could remember the title)... Best of luck Sir, please be careful out there...
Living where they are quit a few lions I have had the eerie pleasure of hearing that but I was close enough to the door of my house I didn’t have to be brave. Have had 5 lions within 30 yards the last 10 years while elk or deer hunting
T-roy and Murph, I thought the same thing. 7.9 million views for a kid playing mountain lion sounds on an e-caller.
That is some wicked sounds!! but If I was in the dark woods my preference would be to hear it, at least you know it's probably not following you. I have been silently followed in the pitch black and it was pretty intense, I was lucky enough to have scanned the area with the headlamp and saw the eyes. Those silent eyes followed me for a half an hour staying about 50yds quartering me from behind, when I got to the top of the canyon I looked back and the eyes were gone, as I turned to look forward it was 20 yds in front of me all crouched down and ready to get me. I had nothing but my bow, I knocked an arrow, raised and waived my arms telling it to get the f away from me but it just gently adjusted itself from side to side and slowly blinked every few seconds. I went to full draw but my headlamp was pointing the wrong direction, at full draw I took the bow cam and adjusted the headlamp in the right direction and yelled at the lion some more, nothing but the same side to side movement and the slow blinks, I put my 20 right below its chin and released, I heard the arrow hit its mark and the cat took off, I've searched many times but never found the arrow or the cat. I was pretty cool until after the shot, thats when I started shaking uncontrollably in my boots, I was pretty wound up for a few hours!
I understand a mountain lion's scream, also known as a caterwaul, is a mating call that signals a female's readiness to breed. That lion is really ready.
So have we settled on the idea that this was just a guy sitting out with an electronic call? And when is their season? Or is that not as reliable as say deer/Elk?
I have spent a lot of time on their turf; I’ve found kills a few times, and my brother came across a lioness with cubs atop a deer that she had killed no more than a few hours before. She actually stepped over the carcass towards him to let him know that he should take the long way around.
I’ve never (to my knowledge) been followed or stalked, and I’m pretty OK with that. Knowing that it’s a possibility keeps you attuned in a way that doesn’t happen where it simply isn’t a question.
I do believe I see a electronic call out in front of the hunter sort of to the front/ right. That sound is/might be a tape of a female lion calling to attract a male lion to within gun shot range..
I’m pretty sure I would have assumed those calls to be just foxes. Don’t think I’ve ever heard that before….
I have a Female Mnt. Lion in Heat on my e Caller and when I play it, everything leaves the area.
I still sit it out just in case a Male or another female comes into the call.
In my state, we don't need a Mnt. Lion license anymore just a Hunting or Combo Hunting/Fishing license to hunt them.
Season is 365 days.
I need to reach out to Paul/Elknut1 and see if he has a Calf elk in distress call that I could download to my e Caller, the e Call company doesn't.
I guess I could use my Hoochie Momma ---->ha
Good luck, Robb
That was t-Roy calling one up.
I have that sound track on my Lucky Duck Revolt. Female in heat. We called in a big tom in West Texas with it a couple years ago.
I remember that Iowa Mnt. Lion, t-roy on the call---->
That was a fun thread.
Good luck, Robb
lol brings back memories our Florida lease butted up to a 200,000 acre panther preserve. I called in four that I saw turkey hunting but my wife had one light up close to her in the dark while turkey hunting yep it got her attention.Lewis
I thought I would just give my Calling Mnt. Lion hunt update on this thread instead of starting another thread.
Unfortunately, it was unseasonably HOT with record heat for the first week of February, instead of highs in the 30's and lows in the teens, I think they hit 70 degrees a couple days and that freaking big time wind, gust to 80 mph wasn't good at all for e-Calling.
I still had a great time though.
I ended up staying more low along the Flaming Gorge lake as up top had 10 inches of snow melt in 4 days and the wind was so strong it was blowing over Ponderosa Pines and the was too spooky for me to even park my truck and hunt out, so down low it was on the winter range.
Enjoy,
Robb
Beautiful area to spend a week
I tryed setting up on over looking cliff tops and e Calling, the wind didn't help but it was fun having a great view out into the Cedars and sagebrush
My lil' spinning fur device did wll in the wind.
Very nice portable e Call, loud too
I could see anything coming from quiet a distance too
I was tucked away kinda out of that dang wind.
Helped a bud out that was on top, using his hounds, what a muchy mess and he had lost a dog, so I kept an eye out for her and an ear open for her song.
He eventually found her miles away.
If ya look at the first Breath Hole on his rig, you can see a hound's nose sticking out
Elk everywhere down low out by the Ut ~Wyo border
I decided to hunt below the cliffs and crags as the Mule deer and elk were wintering along there and I did have some cat tracks in the mud.
When I would switch to the Fawn Distress call, the elk came a running as did the muley deer, Crazy fun, but I switch to a cottontail really quick. ~~ Haha
I had a real fun trip, and it is always nice to get-a-way for a week and break up Cabin Fever.
It finally got down to normal cold temps the last morning of my hunt.
Good luck, Robb
Good luck, Robb!
Actually heard that sound last year, right below the house at the ranch down in Texas.
I was shooting my bow in the evening and bounced an arrow off the top of a target. The arrow flew over the back fence and down the hill. They tend to go a ways when that happens and in the thick brush and rocks, you have about a 50/50 chance of finding it and about the same odds that it’s broken if you do. Really tough in low light in the evening.
As I was looking for my arrow, I heard that sound and it was close!
I had left my bow back up by the house about 200 yards away and the screams were coming from less than 100 yards in the thick brush.
I knew that sound! Thinking I could get a glimpse of the cat, I started easing up the hill towards it.
The cat kept squalling and moved away from me. Pretty sure it was under 40 yards, but I still couldn’t see it in the thick juniper.
I stopped my advance and started replying to it with the same sounds it was making. The cat answered back!
This was getting fun!
We called back and forth several times and, from the responses I could tell it was coming closer.
Then, I saw a piece of him moving through the brush about 20 yards away!
He slipped around a bush and popped out at about 15 yards.
Gorgeous big tom!
Damn, and my bow was up at the house!
I stood my ground and switched from cat calls to yelling “Hey cat! GET OUT OF HERE!” He just stood there, flicking his tail back and forth a few times. We stared at each other for several seconds and then he gave a low growl and turned back the way he had come.
It was starting to get pretty dark. Thankfully, that tom started squalling again and was moving off up the hill away from me. I backed out of the thick stuff and walked back to the house, buzzing from the close encounter.
Now I am wondering if there might have been a female up there that he was tending…
Big cats are so cool!
Heck yeah Tavis, although extremely rare, those chance encounters with Mnt. Lion are a for life memory.
For those that reach out to me it's a Ruger AR-15/.223, I did the digi coating myself, first try on metal and stock.
Good luck, Robb
