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I just posted FOUR new stories! (All from the same guy... I'm a little jealous!)

Stories O28, O29, O30, and RS18

Great stories, great hunting technique, all have photos!

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


PLEASE! Send me your stories, calling or not!

Dang!

New Stories today!

Added RS19, A24, and NC1

First non-calling story! (Hopefully of dozens and dozens! Please send me yours!)

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

Hey guys! Cyber Monday post for a GIFT to my former customers, especially you long timers!

Look at your call sequences files... If you DON'T have "Live Whistles S", I'd like to give it to you for Christmas. I think you should have it.

It's Live Whistles, but it's slowed down to a calm communicative pace. Live Whistles was a real life sequence, in real time, but it was a whining, excited, begging teenager. A little overexcited about seeing his trainers. I think slowing it down makes more sense in the field.

So if you're a former customer, email me a pic of your file list or the cd or something to prove it, and I'll email you a link to download "Live Whistles S".

Merry Christmas!

Ok, JUST POSTED! Story # O31

Yeah, he did it again, this time right into his lap! HAND CALLED COUGAR!

RoyalCoug1 by .com/photos/142732471N06/]Steve Tormala, on [bleep]

Moose antler base I turned into a Royal cougar whistle call for a customer.

Somebody (who shall remain nameless, who just killed a Cougar with an ivory call) requested an Ivory Cougar Whistle!

SlagCall2 by .com/photos/142732471N06/]Steve Tormala, on [bleep]

SlagCall1 by .com/photos/142732471N06/]Steve Tormala, on [bleep]

I added a second Non-Calling Cougar hunting story today.

NC2, a calling trip that turned into a spot and stalk before the call made the first cry!

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



Please send me stories! Anything without hounds!

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


Just posted story # A25

Great experience getting stalked!

I walked in to a restaurant bar one night, looked around, and said “would you like a glass of wine?” And a cougar showed up... that’s my story....


Hat tipped to the young guy who shot that mountain lion...

Just posted another Non-Calling Story...

Archery kill! Encounter with a group of 3!

Story # NC3

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

Epic man , great site full of great ML hunting stories .
Thanks !

Just posted another one from SD...

RS20, has some good details from a guy who's getting it dialed in!

Hope to post a photo as well, but not up yet...


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

So many guys have asked me about callers and what would be a good unit for a budget, so I thought I'd just mention that today (March 20, 2020 3:15pm) I got an email from gander outdoors saying they had a sale on the FP Banshee for something like $207. That's pretty good...

Posted a new story!

Really good Non-Calling story from a deer stand!

NC4 on my Call In Story Page...

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

Steve,

I have a question for you about lion vocalizations. About a month ago, I went night fishing along an isolated stretch of a small, local river. About dusk there was a steady parade of turkeys into the heavy timber along the river. Shortly after the sun went down, there was a feline call from back in the timber. It was basically "Meow-uhh, Meow-uhh". Not loud or deep but definitely louder than a house cat. There are no farm places within 3 miles of the location and really no reason for a domestic cat to be in that area anyway.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hey Johnny, They definitely have a meow type sound they can give out.

100 times... well... Bigger? Deeper? Larger air Volume? Throat volume? Hard to explain.

I've heard several vocalizations, both at the farm with the captive cats, and in the field, that AFTERwards I would have had to call them a 'meow' sound, but when I heard them, that's not what popped into my head!

Possibly the best way I can describe it is... The housecats try to do it, but they're too small! The Cougars do what the housecats are trying to do. Effortlessly. They can do it soft and quiet, but it's still big and still carries. No "Y" sound to it, but the rest of the 'meow' is there. More like a moan. "MuhRoooo" in the upper register, quiet, smooth, with maybe a little gravel on the end.

Bobcats have a varied vocabulary too. Often more nasty than the lions, but they definitely have more sounds than just the nasty growl.

Possible.

i used too mate with a few cougars some were awful mean if i met them at the watering hole.

Steve,
Thank you for the response. I’m going with a barn cat with a good set of lungs. There could have been some subtle tonal quality that I may have missed. I hate hearing aids and wear mine seldom, if ever. Last year we called in a bobcat while predator hunting. My buddy saw the cat on the other side of the creek and was surprised at how noisy it was while coming to the call. I was 10 feet closer to the cat than he was and I never heard a thing...or saw the cat. Thanks again.

Pete,
Yeah, I think we are talking about a different watering hole, different mating call and different kind of pu.... Never mind.

Just posted a couple similar (to each other) stories from the same guy... A26 AND 27.

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