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Cool stories. Hoping to take your e sounds out this year.

Just Posted A28... Big Beautiful Cat!

Posted another story on my call in story page... O32

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

This one is a little different, but it's something that I've heard of happening repeatedly, so it needs to be covered!

Check it out! - O32

Posted a new Call-in Story. Youtube Video of the entire thing after the shot! Look for "O33" on the call-in story page!

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


HS Football Coach goes 1 for 1 on targeted Cougar Stands!

HS Football coach visits friends, they go cat hunting, he runs the stand with his ICOtech and RainShadow sounds.... and he goes 2 for 2 on lion stands (even though he didn't do the shooting!)

No, that isn't 'typical' either!

I told him, someday he'd have the satisfaction of having 30 dry stands in a row... but he's just a beginner, so he can't expect to get to that level immediately!

I will post the story as soon as I get it from the shooter!

Just Posted R21. Great story by the young hunter, and great post-shot video by the Coach!

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

Distress and 3 different RainShadow vocals, predominantly "RS S Live Whistles" brought in a young cat. Great story! Lots of fun interacting with these guys over the past couple weeks!

Enjoy!

Bears here in northern central Minnesota respond to calls in the fall during season. The only issue is even tho I am very off grid remote, they are incredibly wary. They will not cross any sort of opening/clear cut if they can get around it.
I have called from raised stands and during our early fall season with leaves and underbrush still thick they get in awfully close before detection. They disappear even faster.

I have found it too difficult to make an age/size determination in this country with such a short time for the shot. Don’t do it here any more. Fawn bleats.

Osky

Found the same problem with calling bears: if a bear coming to the call is in brush, it is often hard to tell how big it is. I have called some in open enough country to get a good look however. I prefer to call inside of fairly open forest for almost any kind of critter rather than try to call them out of cover into the open.

Calling bears works but to work well it takes some thinking before the first call sound. My grandsons called several this Fall. On his first bear one grandson killed an average adult at 58 yards that they did not get a good look at till it was dead. Other grandsons combined spot and stalk with a predator call to get a stalked bear to position himself better for a shot or get him to step into a more open spot.

I like to use a call along with spot and stalk, but for spotting we have open alpine berry patches up high and clear cuts at low elevation. If a hunter wants a big bear, it would be good to locate some big bear sign and target that specific bear rather than call cold or in general bear sign.

Ok... about 8 years ago I had father son up here bear hunting. Dad wanted to sit with his son who was 30 something but had never shot big game. We ended up all three up in a stand me filming. Nothing was happening so I hit the call in my pocket. As a fluke I looked in the right direction and saw brush top movement and knew it was a bear. I quieted down, worked the call, and happened to look down to see a second bear at the base of our tree looking up at me. Neither were big.
I split the two next evening and the son took a beautiful 6.5 footer from that stand, meanwhile the father far away was impatient at his stand and left just before shooting time ended. Camera showed a terrific bear better than 500lbs strolled in 6 minutes after the guy left. Missed out on a beauty.
Our clearings up here are generally logging clear cuts. Bears like those in spring for grass and bugs but come fall they won’t cross them in daylight if given a choice. They stick to thick brush. I have a rule here of no bears may be shot if under 300lbs. Just can’t stick to that here with a calling method.

Osky

Calling Lions, most don't care if the cat is a big un. ANY cat is a trophy! Callers either can't or can't afford to run dogs on them, so this is their only option. As such, any cat that comes in get the crosshairs!

Call in a small bear, just shoo it away and keep calling for the big one!

I've been noticing that the call in story page is getting quite LONG!



One thing I've found that you can do to consume it is to have your computer or device read it to you. That way you can reload, or drive or whatever.



You have to kinda focus to get much out of the robot voice, but it does work.



For the computer, for instance, you go to the page, click where you want to start, and then right click, and then click "Read Aloud" or press Control and Shift and U at the same time.



Just a little life hack!

So I was sitting in the bar, and looked down the counter and saw 2 milfs, I called to them...

Wanted to let you guys know that I have my website back in business.

If you had a Cougar Call In Story that I haven't posted yet, please let me know. I have them, and I'm planning to update soon. But things are a mess, and a reminder is always handy!

I'll be working on adding the old pics back in and making it more readable and easy to see (don't forget the 'read it to me" right click function.) But meanwhile, It's alive!

If you haven't sent me your story, please think about doing that. I'd love to post your latest encounter with the big cats!


I keep telling it to have the same link, but it keeps refusing...
If I can't get it to change, here's the link it's creating...

http://www.rain-shadow.com/cougar-call-in-stories.html

Switched it to the link it's creating now...

http://www.rain-shadow.com/cougar-callin-stories.html

I'll figure it out eventually!


(Grrrr... hyphens, not underscores... I don't know if I can change that......)

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Just reviving this because I'm seeing a lot of random Archery and Muzzleloader season Cougar Kills on social media and local hunting forums... I'd sure love to get a short story and a pic if you kill a Lion!!!

Just posted A-29 . . . Great surprise call-in story!

http://www.rain-shadow.com/cougar-callin-stories.html

My only cougar call-in story was an accident. I was archery hunting and was cow calling for elk just after sunset. All of a sudden my "spidy sense" kicked in telling me there was something behind me. When I slowly turned around there, about 15 yards away, was a mountain lion crouched and sneaking up on me. He froze and I froze. Dark was closing in and I didn't want to deal with him in the dark. I figured that no elk was coming in. I needed this guy to leave. So, I spread my arms out and took a step toward him and yelled as loud as I could "hey!!!". He turned and bolted. I walked all the way back to camp with my senses on high alert. For that half hour hike you would not have been able to shove a needle up my ass with a jackhammer.

Can I post that, Big Sky? So many cow calling encounters, that's a great example.

Feel free rainshadow1.