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Title: Kitty cat....
Post by: Doug Campbell on February 23, 2013, 11:35:00 PM
After the blizzard quit this afternoon I went out looking for a big dog to try and put a stalk on. No luck there but I did see a couple of mulie does up on the hill acting strange so started glassing the sage brush around them. Finally spotted the mulie's problem, not one but two of these critters. Figure it must have been a female in heat and her lover. Pretty cool stuff...
  (http://i.imgur.com/ZtIXPOp.jpg)
  (http://i.imgur.com/5mh9GXV.jpg)  
Nothing but open country tween us so I just sat and watched them till they wandered of into the trees. Maybe next time.

Never a dull moment in Montana....
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Post by: Richie on February 23, 2013, 11:37:00 PM
Great pics, thanks for sharing.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: dhermon85 on February 23, 2013, 11:42:00 PM
Yeah, that's cool. And to see two is even better.
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Post by: Mark Baker on February 23, 2013, 11:49:00 PM
Was the grandbaby (or grandma) running you outta the house??   And where's that Lizzy when you need her?...
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Post by: Big Ed on February 23, 2013, 11:51:00 PM
Awesome pics!!
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Post by: S.C. Hunter on February 23, 2013, 11:58:00 PM
Thanks for sharing. Beautiful!
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Post by: Friend on February 24, 2013, 02:07:00 AM
A most memorable moment.

Thank you for sharing.
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Post by: dingas on February 24, 2013, 02:15:00 AM
Cool!
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Post by: Hawken1911 on February 24, 2013, 06:59:00 AM
Thanks for sharing! Cool pics. :thumbsup:
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Post by: jcar315 on February 24, 2013, 07:34:00 AM
Very cool indeed!
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Post by: magnus on February 24, 2013, 07:50:00 AM
Nice pics Doug. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: T-Bowhunter on February 24, 2013, 08:21:00 AM
Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: FerretWYO on February 24, 2013, 08:47:00 AM
That's a big lion. Awesome pictures.
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Post by: Moots on February 24, 2013, 09:12:00 AM
We have mountain lions on our Wyoming property, but almost never see them.  They see us.  Great pictures.
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Post by: pamike on February 24, 2013, 09:13:00 AM
VERY COOL PICS!!
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Post by: maineac on February 24, 2013, 09:24:00 AM
Very cool.  What an animal!
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Post by: joe ashton on February 24, 2013, 09:33:00 AM
I spend nearly all my spare time in the woods and have never seen a lion.  thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Doc Nock on February 24, 2013, 09:46:00 AM
Doug, Doug, Doug....

See, if you'd have had a bag of Meow Mix with you to shake...they'd both likely run right in!   :rolleyes:  

I, like others, never saw one, but once in MT I walked a hillside irrigation canal bank in the snow and when I came back that way, there were kitty tracks on top mine...so who was the hunter???
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Post by: Bernie B. on February 24, 2013, 09:58:00 AM
Nice pictures!  There's a lot of power in one of those cats!

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
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Post by: pcappy08 on February 24, 2013, 10:02:00 AM
Nice pics thanks fori sharing!
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Post by: BMN on February 24, 2013, 10:05:00 AM
Very cool!    :thumbsup:
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Post by: snakebit40 on February 24, 2013, 10:06:00 AM
That's awesome! Amazing animals
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Post by: coaster500 on February 24, 2013, 10:11:00 AM
Great stuff!!!  

That cat is eating very well  :)
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Post by: DeerBacon on February 24, 2013, 10:12:00 AM
Nice pics, those are pretty rare around my woods.
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Post by: Duker on February 24, 2013, 10:16:00 AM
AWESOMEEE pics  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Charlie Lamb on February 24, 2013, 10:23:00 AM
Great photos Doug! Shoulda launched one at him.    :archer2:

Of course there's stuff like seasons and licences and quota that I don't anything about... but I bet you do.
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Post by: Altiman94 on February 24, 2013, 10:25:00 AM
Really awesome pics!  Those big cats are really cool animals!
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Post by: DarrinG on February 24, 2013, 10:30:00 AM
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Shedrock on February 24, 2013, 10:30:00 AM
Not something you get to see every day. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: SERGIO VENNERI on February 24, 2013, 10:32:00 AM
Awesome doug! Montana , my absolutely favourite place to vist! Great scenery,wildlife, and people. i would personally like to live in the northwest part; Kalispell,columbia falls, whitefish....
      Thanks for a great reminder!  :notworthy:    :notworthy:    :notworthy:
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Post by: twitchstick on February 24, 2013, 10:52:00 AM
Cool! A rare sighting for sure.
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Post by: cacciatore on February 24, 2013, 11:05:00 AM
Great story!    :clapper:    I really would like to skin one with my bighorn  handled skinner!
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Post by: stykbow67 on February 24, 2013, 12:10:00 PM
I'm not sure which one I'm more jealous of, You being able to watch to 2 CATS put a sneak on some unsuspecting does or YOU being able to put a sneak on some unsuspecting does this late in February! Our seasons have been done since the end of December. Very cool pics!   :bigsmyl:  

Steve
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Post by: Bjorn on February 24, 2013, 01:49:00 PM
One of these days........................   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: JamesKerr on February 24, 2013, 01:52:00 PM
Cool pictures!
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Post by: Benjy on February 24, 2013, 02:11:00 PM
That is very cool!
Doug you should have tied a Pork Chop around your neck so the Kitty would come play with you!

Benjy
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Post by: drewsbow on February 24, 2013, 04:17:00 PM
very cool  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Doug Campbell on February 24, 2013, 05:04:00 PM
Thanks guys, seems like I see two to four of em a year when out in the hills. The season runs till mid April as long as the quota doesn't fill. Really wanted to get back up there this morning and look for tracks/kills but had Grandbaby duty so had to stay in the house and watch cartoons...

Yep it was worth it...     :bigsmyl:
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Post by: FerretWYO on February 24, 2013, 05:27:00 PM
I have a dog or two that would love to come help you out Doug ha ha.
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Post by: mmgrode on February 24, 2013, 07:09:00 PM
Whoa, very cool!  That's a rare sight to see! Thanks for posting the pictures, Doug.
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Post by: MnFn on February 24, 2013, 07:37:00 PM
Great pics, thanks for sharing.  Somewhere along the way over the past years, I stopped carrying a camera except for game taken and friends, family etc.  I am going to try to remember to bring one with again.  The photo's are my best remembrances of time well spent in the woods.

Not nearly as cool as yours, but I had a pair of timber wolves run within 100 yards a few years ago while deer hunting. Would have been a pretty good snapshot also.
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Post by: Mike Gerardi on February 24, 2013, 07:53:00 PM
Very cool pics. Just another reason to dream of being back in Montana.
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Post by: Doug Campbell on February 24, 2013, 08:21:00 PM
Bring em on up Randy although they'd have to play well with wolves. Got probably five times as many wolves as lions. And these wolves are proven dog killers...    :mad:    :mad:
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Post by: JJB on February 24, 2013, 09:43:00 PM
Amazing pictures!
-Jay
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Post by: PA stickbow boy on February 26, 2013, 02:20:00 PM
That's pretty awesome! Cool Stuff
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Post by: Roughcountry on February 26, 2013, 04:16:00 PM
Great pictures Doug, looks cold up your way.  :D  

I really shake my head when I find a spot in the snow where a lion beds down for a nap in the dead of winter. Wished I had a furnace that worked that good.  :campfire:
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Post by: Doug Campbell on February 26, 2013, 09:34:00 PM
I hear ya Robin but check out the rolls of insulation on that Tom. How many deer/elk did it take over the last year to do that?
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Post by: turkey522 on February 26, 2013, 10:00:00 PM
That's a cool experience,thanks for sharing.
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Post by: LONGSTYKES on February 28, 2013, 07:55:00 AM
Great pics Doug, two as one time great.
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Post by: Zbone on February 28, 2013, 10:15:00 AM
Cool pix, thanx for sharing....

Curious though, when you say "looking for a big dog to try and put a stalk on", are you talking about a coyote, wolf, or what?
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Post by: Gehrke145 on February 28, 2013, 12:51:00 PM
Great pics, my hounds would scream that track!
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Post by: Bill Kissner on February 28, 2013, 09:44:00 PM
You usually see 2 to 4 a year? Man oh man, I have been hunting CO since I was a pup and have NEVER seen a live mountain lion! There are plenty of them there too.
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Post by: danderson on March 01, 2013, 01:45:00 PM
I've heard of people going their entire lives living in cat country and never seeing one. That is just way cool!
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Post by: Doug Campbell on March 01, 2013, 11:49:00 PM
Just lucky I guess guys, that and spending a whole bunch of time where they are.

Yea wolves for sure zbone....