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Hope we get snow up here... forecast is just this cold, sub freezing fog... for weeks! Will go out anyway, have a couple cold calling spots, but a couple inches would sure speed things up!

I"m hunting with an outfitter in AZ in April for lions. Hope I see as many as you have!

To All,

Believe it or not, here in The Alamo City, a DOWNTOWN bank's surveillance cameras recorded a LARGE, male ML, strolling across the parking lot & into a nearby shopping mall about 2000 hours a few weeks ago.
(A local game warden estimated him at at least 100# & "obviously in good health".)

San Antonio has numerous coons, possums, ring-tails, coyotes, feral hogs, whitetails, Axis deer, bobcats & "other livestock" in this very densely populated urban area.
(Some neighborhoods have 200+ WT per square mile, according to the Bexar County Animal Control officers.)

yours, tex

A while back we accidently called one in while using a cow elk call in a thick stand of pine. This was deep in The Bob Marshall Wilderness. Even in there, this poor cat had a wide plastic collar with an antenna. He looked embarrassed!

Nothing today. Maybe tomorrow. Saw two nice Mule deer bucks. No snow

I wouldn't call 100# lion a big male. That would be a nice sized female for sure. I big males start at 150. I wonder if they could see his junk?

dennisinaz,

I have no idea. - What I posted is "second hand" from a bank employee that's a member of my service club & who has seen the video recordings from the bank's parking lot. = He told me about the recording of the cat two weeks ago Tuesday PM at our bi-weekly meeting.
(One thing is likely certain: With all the deer & other "prey animals" in our very urban SA, he won't go hungry.)

yours, tex

dennisinaz,

Fyi, speaking of big cats, a retired SGM & his lady returned from a day-long shopping trip to the Ft Meade commissary/PS/Class 6 to their retirement home in western MD a few weeks ago. - The wife took an armload of groceries into the house, propping the front door open while the SGM started carrying in their many sacks of purchases.

On the 3rd or 4th trip into the house, he was horrified to discover a ML in the living room (between him & his lady) & the cat was quietly stalking his wife.

His wife saw the cat, locked herself into the pantry & then he thereafter managed to get the cat OUT of the house without any major damage to either the house or to either of them. = I count them: LUCKY.

yours, tex

Wow ! LUCKY ! How in the hell, do you herd a M,L out of your house while said cat is stalking you ?

WildWest,

According to the retired SGM, he went around the house, entered the kitchen door & continually YELLED AT the cat until the cat left the house through the front door & disappeared into the woods.
(Trust me, the Sergeants Major, that I knew during my career, had BIG voices. - Sounds about RIGHT to me.)

LOL, tex

Maryland.... told you so! (They're moving back east!)

I was out sat/sun. Birds where missing, So I did not get to excited in the two areas I hunted. Missed a coyote sunday. Which I really should not have. It was not called in, spotted it cruising through a draw. I have been using an Elk call. The area I am hunting gets a lot of E-caller traffic. So I mostly just use Deer or Elk closed reed calls. If it gets windy I have a very loud custom that I can make some seriously growly death of deer sounds. Its type of sound has been the most productive over the years. But it is a call any predator call. Coyote - bobcat come in most often but cougar and bear have also.

Thanks gents for the great lion stories. It is always stimulating to see lion tracks, kills, and naturally, the lions. All my sightings have been while hunting deer, elk, wild turkey or such.
As you know, mountain lion are legally considered varmints in Texas and can be taken at any time possible.
I know only one Texan that calls mountain lions on his ranch, but then he also calls leopard in Africa, so he must be quite accomplished.

Best of luck to you this season.

Really curious about calling Leopard! Would love to talk with that guy sometime!

Looks like my paypal buttons on the website were goofed up... and it LOOKS like they're fixed now... PLEASE Let me know if you're trying to get sounds or calls and something doesn't work!

Rainshadow1,

Calling Leopards is a sport I think I'd rather read about from the comfort of the easy chair in front of a fire rather than actually doing....

I have gotten jumpy enough calling at night in mountain lion country that I won't go unless my partner goes with me. Last autumn we had a lion walk across the meadow about a half block from where I am typing this right now. A couple of guys hanging Christmas lights saw him and called 911. A handful of deputies and a G&P officer showed up and looked for it but couldn't find it. The day before, one had walked around the senior high school about ten miles north of here.

I am not scared of big hairy monsters that can eat you, during the day, but at night I am much more opened minded.

Calling any predators at night from the ground is spooky! (But if I could I'd do it for lions here!)

I just am pretty convinced that Leopards would also be very callable, especially with fellow leopard vocals.

Just got back from Mexico, lions are a real problem on many of the ranches there. Last season 8 lions were sighted buy the 5 hunters in my buddy's group and they killed 4 of them. This year only killed one. A lion killed a calf about 300 yards from the house but they didn't bother to tell us or I would have gone out and called it in for them. Going back in March to remedy this!

They're starting to run in herds!


Just posted two more good stories from Western Washington!

Stories O25 and A21 are bran-fresh as of today!

http://rain-shadow.com/cougar_callin_stories.htm

Our yearly Cabin lake/Fort Rock area Cougar camp is 2/9 thru 2/19 this year. This will be year 9. Looks like we will have a pretty good turn out this year.