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I've spotted countless doe but the bucks stay hidden. Good point! Casey
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We've got enough cougars that they opened a trapping season for them. You'd think you'd see one once in awhile, but nope. Heck, I've got a game cam picture of what appears to be a were-wolf checking a bait but nary a cougar. If they didn't leave tracks I'd swear they were mythical. I go to a local mall and see a dozen cougars a day...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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If you've ever spent a day with a cougar guide and a pack of hounds, you'd be surprised just how many are out there and are never seen by people.
I worked on a cougar study in the 1980's. The researcher did a literature review of previous lion studies and talked to the researchers of those studies. They all told him what would happen: --The public would be surprised how many cougars he caught. --His own wildlife agency would be surprised by how many cougars he caught. --The public would be all up in arms over all these cougars roaming around. --In response, his agency would increase the cougar quotas. And that is exactly what happened.......... Casey Similar thing happened here in Anchorage some years back when a brown bear study showed about 45 in a small part of the city... Except they did not open a season nor remove them...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I go to a local mall and see a dozen cougars a day...
 Remember, the guy said, "the 2 legged kind will only break your heart !!  Jerry
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I go to a local mall and see a dozen cougars a day...
Remember, the guy said, "the 2 legged kind will only break your heart !! Jerry A cougar for me would have to be a grougar and I will pass on them... leaving the cane at home is considered shooting over a baited field!
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Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out.
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out. I have almost run into blacktails standing on a beach. My buddies and I have taken multiple bucks off a single beach but a few minutes apart. The only dumber animals I have seen were caribou.
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A little surprised by a couple of things . One I wasn't really thinking of some of the exotics and African species when I posed the question so that's an interesting turn. Also as much band width that elk get on this site Im a bit surprised we've gone 6 pages w/o a mention.
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out. I have almost run into blacktails standing on a beach. My buddies and I have taken multiple bucks off a single beach but a few minutes apart. The only dumber animals I have seen were caribou. Huge difference between Sitka bucks that seldom see people and Columbia bucks that get pushed constantly...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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My votes WOULD be cougar and wolves.......
I don't think they are classified as "medium big game".
For YEARS the AGFC claimed that Ark had NO mountain lions (cougar) and yet over the years I've seen a few.
During Hunting Season, I have ONLY seen ONE (1). I was told by a hunting pard that he had seen it and I had SEEN it's sign.
One morning while on stand, I 'just happened' to be looking at the right spot. This cougar stuck its HEAD out of the brush, I raised my rifle and it BACKED up......not to be seen again.
I can't comment on Game animals I've not been around nor hunted. Pressured W T bucks can be VERY spooky and I have gone weeks NOT seeing one - when they were NOCTURNAL..
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out. Come to Washington and hunt on a tree farm. Tags are for sale OTC, the season runs about 2.5-3 weeks, and tree farms are everywhere. Okie John
If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out. I have almost run into blacktails standing on a beach. My buddies and I have taken multiple bucks off a single beach but a few minutes apart. The only dumber animals I have seen were caribou. Huge difference between Sitka bucks that seldom see people and Columbia bucks that get pushed constantly... This. Logging country gets hunted 12 months a year by illegal immigrants and the chronically under-employed folks who live there. You've also got the native hunters who shoot game legally six months out of the year and illegally the other six. Deer, elk, and bears around here know a thing or two about avoiding hunters. Okie John
If Montana had a standing army, a 270 Win with Federal Blue Box 130's would be the standard issue.
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Mature public land whitetail. Blacktails are way spookier than whitetails across the board. They become completely nocturnal on public land. Okie John I'd love to find out. Come to Washington and hunt on a tree farm. Tags are for sale OTC, the season runs about 2.5-3 weeks, and tree farms are everywhere. Okie John One of these years................
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Pressured W T bucks can be VERY spooky and I have gone weeks NOT seeing one - when they were NOCTURNAL..
Jerry I'm not pressing for W T bucks, I'd just like to give one example. @ 1998 or so I was hunting w/my long time friend and hunting pard. We had seen NO bucks and few does. One morning I was moving from point A to point B still hunting. It was between 7 -7:30 AM I just happened to intersect a moving buck headed to bed down for the day !!!! I shot him w/my 7 RM in the neck at 140 yds, later measured. I took him to a running creek to field dress and then thru in the creek to quickly cool him down. Afterwards I cut his stomach open to see what he'd been eating. To my surprise there was nothing in his stomach except POLK berries. Everything was P Bs and everything was PURPLE. That's the first time I saw a stomach FULL of P B (not peanut butter). There were no discernible leaves, twigs, acorns or anything else. W/in a few yards he would have been in brush where he would not have been visible. How do I remember so well? He IS the only 9 pt. I have ever killed. Jerry
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