Had a new ranch hand start today and was out showing him around when this guy jumped out of the brush. He wasn't too happy, think we buggered his deer hunt. Maybe he'll be back this fall... :D
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Awesome shoulders. That dude can pump out some reps
Rusty
Great pic Doug. Being able to capture that pic is awesome.
I get that look when people mess with my hunts too. Great pic.
Great picture! What majestic animal
Very nice picture ... I have spent most of my life roaming the woods doing one thing or another and have NEVER seem a cougar. I have seen their tracks, scat, and kills but never the cat.
That is awesome!
To cool! Pretty big cat thanks for sharing Doug
Tracy
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That's not necessarily a bad thing Ken. This is the third one so far this year. I'm convinced this is the reason we have a hard time growing mulie bucks to maturity up here... Still pretty cool though.
Hey Tracy, good to see you back!
What a lot of folks don't understand is they will take down a big mature buck also. Those loaner bucks are easy targets without a lot of other eyes to sense the cat stalking in.
Hope you find him again!
here kitty kitty.
Nice pics Doug.
Very cool. Can't believe he sat there long enough for you to get a picture.
X2 on them being especially hard on big loner bucks. I know first hand how big of animals they will attack, last year we had one attack a nice team roping horse of ours and the horse barely escaped that one alive.
Amazing and beautiful. Moments like these make life a delight.
I got a look like that from my wife when I told her I was going out for elk this year.
Great pic..
WOW! That is a big beautiful cat. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool he doesn't look to happy. Hopefully you guys will meet up this fall
I have a honey hole I hunt for elk. But I hardly ever see any deer there. One year I saw a momma kitty and three cubs. They were almost full grown. I guess that answered why there were no deer in the area. Gary
I'd be still a runnin!
Cool pic Doug, life in MT.... Always grand!
Doug: That is one darn BIG kitty. They don't grow that big up by me. You must feed them a lot more!!! Don
I watched a video of a mature cat taking down a mature 4X4 muley buck. He ended up switching from a neck bite to a nose bite and took him down and sufficated him. A guy I know here in Oregon was hunting the late blacktail season. He walked out of the woods to see a big buck. Shot him and walked up to see his nose was all mangled. He had been in a battle with a cat and was barely hanging on.
Nothing wrong with keeping the predators in check.
That is a beautiful cat! On a club i used to belong to here in south bama that is right on the bama/florida line, we had several sightings of a florida panther.One time i was walking down a narrow path through a briar patch after dark going back to my jeep.I had deer urine on my boots and i got to thinking,,,here i am in the dark in the middle of a briar patch smelling like deer pee and there has beena big cat here.I had chill bumps on my arms for a bit,lol.Snakewood here on trad gang doesnt post a lot of stories but he has been showing me some cat pics and it sounds like he would have some good stories to tell.
That looks like so much fun to me.
One LOOK at that ....That's why I'd carry my .3oo Weatherby!!! :scared:
Arent you suppossed to let them chew on one hand while you knife them with the other? LOL That makes a much better story to tell than shooting them with a .300 weatherby.
Nice pic! :thumbsup:
my thinking is this: it doesnt matter what you carry in the woods to protect you from cats, they'll sneak up from behind and snap your neck before you even know they're there, bears on the other hand are worth the 300 magnum
What an animal!
Cool stuff.