Re: Mountain Lion advice
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: kraigWY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mountain lions travel like no other animal. Nothing for them to travel a hundrel miles or more. When I was younger, back in 1970 or so, I hunted coon with dogs. I put them on some fresh tracks and trailed the cat for two days and never got close.
Mountain lions unless you go out with a professional guide is iffy. There are a lot around here but you're more then likely to see one by accident then hunting them. I just buy a $20 licence every year and if I see one I'll shoot it, if not, I wasted $20. No big deal, but at my age I'm not about to go out and try to run one down.</div></div>
What he said.
We have em thick here in Nevada. After the "environmentalists" decided to protect them from us wicked hunters. Their numbers blew up and they killed most of the mulies off, and then some got into the cattle. The ones that didn't starved to death. All the sudden the "environmentalists" did a study that said that they need to be controlled by hunting, and now we can buy as many tags over counter as you want. 10 years later and the Mule deer herds still haven't recovered. Their ignorance is amazing.
Even with all that going on you are hard pressed to ever see one in your lifetime in the day with out a knowledgable guide and good dogs. My father is 68 years old, has hunted for 4-6 months out of the year for his whole life and he has only seen 2 in the day light.
We have been spotlighting and calling coyotes (legal in some parts of NV) and have lit what we believe to be a lion up a couple of times, but they give you a glance and then are gone. No interest in the call, light, nothing...just gone.
It may be different in TX, good luck. Any day out side hunting is 20X better than working.
Ty
