Best sound for Cougar
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rainshadow1
Custom Call Maker
What do you mean by selecting? What kinda call you using?
You really can't go wrong with blacktail fawn, this should be your confidence sound for the West Coast (FoxPro has a great one, incidentally). All ages and sizes of lions will respond to this sound. Not so with lion vocals. There is nevertheless one call manufacturer who's made an industry out of just a few meager sounds and inflated claims about them. In my experience, lion vocals are more likely to trigger a flight response than attract lions.
More challenging issue than what prey species sound to use will be in getting within reasonable proximity to a lion, setting up where there are terrain features that "funnel" them into an area where they can be seen-- and doing all this without being busted by them first.
Biggest question of all will be how many years are you prepared to hang out listening to fawn bleats before seeing one? I've called about dozen now, yet have actually gotten even a glimpse or more of only 3 of these--in 21 years of trying (contrast that with another 8 ML seen in the headlights while driving in that same period of time). This is in an area with perhaps the highest density of lions in NA.
True, there may be a few guys who stumble into lions while out calling for other species, or the extremely rare instance of someone calling a big cat the first time they blow on a call, but these odds are akin to winning the SuperLotto. (Should you find posts to the contrary, best consider the number of PM members nowadays.)
None of this is meant to discourage you from soon becoming as utterly obsessed about this as I've become, mind you...
LionHo
More challenging issue than what prey species sound to use will be in getting within reasonable proximity to a lion, setting up where there are terrain features that "funnel" them into an area where they can be seen-- and doing all this without being busted by them first.
Biggest question of all will be how many years are you prepared to hang out listening to fawn bleats before seeing one? I've called about dozen now, yet have actually gotten even a glimpse or more of only 3 of these--in 21 years of trying (contrast that with another 8 ML seen in the headlights while driving in that same period of time). This is in an area with perhaps the highest density of lions in NA.
True, there may be a few guys who stumble into lions while out calling for other species, or the extremely rare instance of someone calling a big cat the first time they blow on a call, but these odds are akin to winning the SuperLotto. (Should you find posts to the contrary, best consider the number of PM members nowadays.)
None of this is meant to discourage you from soon becoming as utterly obsessed about this as I've become, mind you...
LionHo
Duane@ssu
New member
Lion Ho is right,calling lions is a numbers game.The more "good" stands you make the better your odds.Calling a lion isn't so simple as calling in the right place,you have to be close to a lion,be still ,and bust the cat,before he bust you.I know for a fact(seen it) that alot of guys that claim to be great lion hunters use a stike dog in the pick up.They drive around until the dog stikes,then, get out and look for a kill.Many of the lions,that are "called"are actually killed out of a tree over the kill,or defending the kill.Don't get me wrong,a dead lion is a good one.I don't care if its shot out the pickup window, (personally).But if you want to straight up call a cat and kill it, be prepared for some long lonely days,and be in real good shape.I have walked many miles to kill the lions I have got.I have been calling them for about six years.