Big cats

[cwpayton]

Just wanted to share these 2 toms ,lates ones, 2nd one standng was taken from mountain behind my ranch and has been a hard one to get, now the deer will sleep easy. as will I.

 

[R.N.L]

I didn’t realise they get that big

 

[jcs271]

Nice, I understand your concerns. I have taken five. Four were sport hunted near my home with friends and family hounds. The last one was in my dog pen trying to kill a new young dog.

This one went 162 on a digital freight shipping scale....

 

[Wyit76]

A critter I have always wanted for the wall! Unfortunately everyone I knew that used to run them with hounds has stopped doing so before I was in a position to join. Good on you for keeping the deer and elk protected!

 

[Killingtime]

Those are beautiful. I have a hunt booked for next Feb in Arizona I can’t wait

 

[Green Chile]

Excellent. More need to be taken. It took me two VERY physical hunts to get mine. I'm just glad it didn't take 3 times! The guide and I both had the flu and both threw up climbing out of the canyon. Cats can be super tough.

 

[CarsonG]

How much did that big boy weigh?!!!

 

[Green Chile]

If you’re asking about my cat, I have no idea. We skinned it and started climbing out as the sun and temps were falling fast. We finished the climb in the dark.

 

[Scott CWO]

One of our biggest. Almost 200 pounds.

 

[Racer00]

My best Montana lion so far. 176 lbs.

 

[Racer00]

My son’s best. 174 lbs

 

[Nyati]

Congrats to all of you, these are "Big Cats"

 

[dlmac]

Excellent. More need to be taken. It took me two VERY physical hunts to get mine. I'm just glad it didn't take 3 times! The guide and I both had the flu and both threw up climbing out of the canyon. Cats can be super tough.

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Love the color!

 

[Betterinthebush]

125# lamb killing female that me and my friend got called out to hunt down in Utah . One great hunt.

Going back for another in March with 7 Anchors for horses and hounds over cats.

 

[Warbeast]

Dang,
Thoose are big

If i imagine whst a house cat can do to you....

 

[steve white]

Just wanted to share these 2 toms ,lates ones, 2nd one standng was taken from mountain behind my ranch and has been a hard one to get, now the deer will sleep easy. as will I.

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Holy smokes, CW--what a couple of GREAT cats.....got to admit to more than a little envy!

I have heard that cougars take out the biggest bucks from an area simply because the big bucks THINK they can stand and fight. Not hard to see how that would turn out. Any comment on that or is it another one of those myths about cats?
BTW, how DID you finally get that one you are standing with?

 

[Green Chile]

To answer part of your question...the cat we took was jumped off of this kill. The guide shook his head and said why did he have to take the biggest buck on the mountain? We could tell that he killed the buck in its sleep...like a ninja. No struggle in the snow. It certainly beats my best mule deer!

 

[cwpayton]

Holy smokes, CW--what a couple of GREAT cats.....got to admit to more than a little envy!

I have heard that cougars take out the biggest bucks from an area simply because the big bucks THINK they can stand and fight. Not hard to see how that would turn out. Any comment on that or is it another one of those myths about cats?
BTW, how DID you finally get that one you are standing with?

OH man, I hope not to mislead you, the pictures are of outfitter "clients "of my friend.. the big standup cat was hunted for a couple weeks before finally treeing not more than 20 mins from the rig. he had most recently been feeding on coyotes..! not sure about the big buck story as most kills are an ambush and fighting would be pretty much impossible with a 160 lb. cat on your throat. BIG cats are the assassins of the nature world. MY wife likes to hike the canyons around here , and I always tell her you need to take a pistol, and she always says IVE got my knife and then I say" not good to take a knife to a cat fight,". so Im glad the tom is gone, got recent pics of a female with 3 yearling cats if I can find them from close , stay tunned

 

[cwpayton]

To answer part of your question...the cat we took was jumped off of this kill. The guide shook his head and said why did he have to take the biggest buck on the mountain? We could tell that he killed the buck in its sleep...like a ninja. No struggle in the snow. It certainly beats my best mule deer!

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wow nice you cold have him mounted with another skin.

 

[Sabre]

To answer part of your question...the cat we took was jumped off of this kill. The guide shook his head and said why did he have to take the biggest buck on the mountain? We could tell that he killed the buck in its sleep...like a ninja. No struggle in the snow. It certainly beats my best mule deer!

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Were you able to take the head? Would be cool to incorporate into a mount.