mountain lion hunting

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galiuro mountain man

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A couple of questions about mountain lion hunting. The first one is, will a cat come to a call? If so what would be the best call to use (whitetail distress, jack rabbit, calf)? I have never seriously mountain lion hunted and I found a place where the ranchers livestock is getting hammered. I have always been interested in lion hunting but have never tried it. I dont have dogs, so I either have to get lucky and stumble onto one or try to call them in. If anyone would help me I would appreciate it.

Thank you
 
Yes you can call them in. You can use any of the usuall distress calls. For the most part you should try to find areas where you think it may be and call in those areas. If you live where you get snow thats even better because you can find fresh tracks so you will know there is a cat in the area. Mt.Lions have a very large range so if its in one area one day it could be 25 miles away the next.
 
Try Lamb Distress. deer Distress Burnham Bros. Johnny stewart Fawn Bleat. find a Kill OR Evedence. Get as close as you can. try a decoy. Feather in tree that help's. Good Luck. Rick
 
Lots and lots of information on this site about calling lions. Do a search of the archives and start reading. It will keep you busy for quite awhile.
 
The place I have found is my deer hunting area. I cant find much deer sign now that it is cold, I think the lions are up moving around more. I have found quite a bit of scat and a couple of tracks. The ranchers have lost 3 calves since the first of Dec. They caught one the day after Thanksgiving, and said there is at least two more in this canyon feeding on his calves. They are also hammering the deer, I think the reason the deer are there in summer and not winter is the summer is too hot for the lions and they are higher, and also there are more rabbits in summer so they dont have to mess with calves or deer.

So my next couple of questions are about this.
Do you think the lions would still be in there (the rancher still has his cattle in there)?

Could this be the difference from summer and fall to winter?

This last one is on calling. If I were to use a deer decoy neer the top of a clear saddle and put a tape recorder with a deer distress call under it and hid up one side or the other, would this work, or should I put it up neer the bluffs 100 yards away where the lions were spotted.

One more question. There are bluffs on the South East side of the mountain also, do lions sit and sun on cold mornings? or would it even be worth a try to glass one there?

Thank you for the help
 
galiuro mountain man,

Apparently. I found anywhere from 5 to 31 hits in the Predator forum using, hunting mountain lion, calling mountain lion, mountain lion. Keep digging it's there.

Would you be hunting in or around the Guliuro Mountains of Arizona? Good Luck on your lion quest.

Bill
 
While you may have a few individual cats that'll take cattle or calves, it's probably not an adult prime trophy but rather a mother with cubs, a juvie male (kicked out of better deer habitat by a territorial prime male), or a past-his-prime male. In any case, if a cat is up there killing cows, I'd a calf bawl instead.

Standard advice would be to follow the deer herd to find the lions. Typically, if you have a robust and healthy deer population, the majority of the adult lions will be concentrating largely on deer.

Bobcats, in my experience, are prone to warming themselves in the sun after a cold wet night--but I have yet to jump a mountain lion doing this. It's my hunch that ML's also do this. I always stalk up on these areas. (However, one highly successful old lion hunter's theory is that bright sunlight gives ML's a headache.)

LionHo

PS If the speed of the PM provided search engine is a problem, or if the searches "hang", you can alternately try this search engine http:\www.alltheweb.com
All of the less-recent threads should come up and the search is blazingly fast by comparison. It'll also work to search by member registration number for a specific user's threads s well.
 
hmm, what gave away the area I hunt? Yeah that is where I hunt. Not many deer this winter, I think they hit the flats cause of the lions. I talked to a couple other ranchers and they all said around the end of Sept. the deer dissapeared and then they started seeing lion sign. And some losing cattle. Supposedly this is one of the worst years for this, probably because the summer was so dry and there werent as many rabbits or deer as the past years.
 


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