Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire UR thoughts on Mtn Lion hunting ? Utah

I walked right under one in the Rio Grande Canyon, in NM, but never saw it. Two others saw it and told me how close it was.

I'm a bird hunter at heart.
If we could clear out the feral cat populations, I'm convinced the bird population would shoot up in most areas.
Dumbsheits who let cats run free are killing a huge part of the ecosystem without a clue. Those same people will vote against hunting everytime because it's all so mean to the animals.

Big cats are badass animals though. Just need some balance.

Sounds like a great law to me. I like deer more than cats. I've killed 8 or 9. AZ has a female quota but fairly generous.Alaska doesnt have them, yet.

I doubt this will change the harvest #s enough to really matter for the average hunter. Where I could see it having an affect, is more guided hunts and or guys with hounds being able to take more people. I've known more than a few guys that had hounds, but couldn't find folks with tags where they liked to hunt. My guess is that there'll be an uptick in houndsmen's number of friends. I wouldn't mind if it drove the price of a guided hunt down to where I could afford it...

All that said, for the mule deer in Utah, it's mostly a feel good gesture. Winter range amount/quality is likely a bigger nut to be cracked.

I'd very much like to hunt one, but not with dogs. Same for bears or leopards. Once you tree him, it stops being a hunt (in my opinion).

You don't.

Just have to learn how to keep your yapper shut.

No idea how Utah's Deer and Fish people operate.


In PA anymore, and other states, the biologists study and make recommendations based of the health of the herd.

A bureauocrats/politicians consider those reports, along with
special interest concerns, revenue, political considerations.....


I occasionally visit with a Game Biologist, and hear the frustrating stories. How they travel the state researching the animal then write reports with recommendations, only to have the rules not reflect one bit of their work.

This
Lions, bears, wolves, coyotes ....on sight from oct1- mar-1, spring and summer off to breed new ones.
Unless spotted from mar-2 to sept 30 harassing livestock or pets.

..and sharks year 'round of course.

I'll add raptors to your list.

Why control 4 legged predators on the ground but not control the very most efficient ones that float above?

Man made laws generally make no good sense.

😂

for the little birdies.....

Just to be clear, this new law on cougars was not initiated by biologists at the DWR, it was pushed through at the last minute by politicians and their behind the door lobbyists in the Utah legislature. The biologists in the DWR that I've talked to are frustrated with these new regulations because effectively take away their say in managing wildlife within their units and the way wildlife decisions are made.

Some nice pussies Hunts!!

That reads very much like a SFW and Don Peay play...

Stick to second rate pasta hotrod.

It'd be completely chaotic, there would be bird schit everywhere.
We couldn't grow crops, the feathered fu_ckers would eat everything.

Damn young whipper-snappers, didn't you see the movie?

I hope this is the dumbest thing I read today.

LOL

^^^^No s h i t

So a guy is sitting in a blind over looking a water hole. Does it stop being a hunt as soon as an antelope bends his head down to take a drink? I mean after all, he ain't got a chance at that point. RIGHT??