Hi all New here, looks like a great site

[Rich Baker]

I have been bow hunting for over twenty years and I look forward to getting to know all of you I had a good season this year and finnal got into the record books, Happy trails Rich To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. was hunting the Starky unit here in Oregon for elk , deer ,bear, and couger well Since the slimmy tree huggers got dogs banned for running the cats we have had a population explosion, the elk and deer herds are way down as these cats take 54 deer and elk a year each. thats a lot of elk. any way I had been hunting all day and didn't see any elk or deer then about 5pm I was walking down a elk trail and below me I saw this cat layin off the trail about 100 yards away he had no idea I was there so I slipped of my boots and krept down the mountain until I was about 50 yards from him and he sat up and looked right at me just as the arrow got to him. He jumped about 20 feet in the air and then bolted across a creek on a fallen tree and disappered into some blowdown on the othere side I waited for about a half hour and took up the blood trail. You want to talk about the (spirit of the wild. )What happen next is almost unbeliveable but as I got to the blowdown where I last saw him I stood on the log he went over and he lunged at me!!! he was still alive I knocked a arrow and moved back in trying to get a shot just when I could see him he jumped at me !! I shot and hit him in mid air at about 2 feet and then ran like a scared little girl. he went into some more blow down and that was it. it was the most exciting hunt of my life.

[hillbilly]

Good to have ya! Good job on the moutain lion!

[Walleye Joe]

Awesome Lion! =D>

[TexHunter]

Welcome.

:shock: Don't know if I could get close enough to take one of those. Good job and thanks for the pic.

[pinshooter]

WOW nice cat!

[Nockit]

Welcome, Great Lion picture, thanks for showing us.

[Walleye Joe]

Hey, wait a minute........

I just noticed the rope on that fierce animals legs. :shock: :?:

.....he weren't tied up when you arrowed him, was he? PDT_Armataz_01_09

Just kidding.

What a rush that must have been. Cool 8)

[VFT]

Hey Rich, Very nice kitty ya got there. Lets hear the story behind it.

[ebutler79]

Cant wait to here the story either.

[Rich Baker]

I was hunting the Starky unit here in Oregon for elk , deer ,bear, and couger well Since the slimmy tree huggers got dogs banned for running the cats we have had a population explosion, the elk and deer herds are way down as these cats take 54 deer and elk a year each. thats a lot of elk. any way I had been hunting all day and didn't see any elk or deer then about 5pm I was walking down a elk trail and below me I saw this cat layin off the trail about 100 yards away he had no idea I was there so I slipped of my boots and krept down the mountain until I was about 50 yards from him and he sat up and looked right at me just as the arrow got to him. He jumped about 20 feet in the air and then bolted across a creek on a fallen tree and disappered into some blowdown on the othere side I waited for about a half hour and took up the blood trail. You want to talk about the (spirit of the wild. )What happen next is almost unbeliveable but as I got to the blowdown where I last saw him I stood on the log he went over and he lunged at me!!! he was still alive I knocked a arrow and moved back in trying to get a shot just when I could see him he jumped at me !! I shot and hit him in mid air at about 2 feet and then ran like a scared little girl. he went into some more blow down and that was it. it was the most exciting hunt of my life.

[ebutler79]

I would have needed new britches after that one.

[Walleye Joe]

Dang man, that had to be exciting.
I'd be smiling like a Chessy Cat too. :mrgreen:

...yep, a believe a change of britches would have been needed.

[Jeff in SC]

Hey and welcome!!! Nice cat too!!! :D

[skip]

Awesome Puma, Mountain lion, Cougar, Catamount... or whatever the vernacular near you is for that Kitty :)

[Jerry]

Congrats on the cat ! Is that area near Ukia by chance?

[SageCreek]

Too close for comfort!

A good cat is a dead cat.

You could have been lunch!

[dkoutdoors]

Awesome Lion and great to have you here man.

[Pa Trophy Man]

Welcome, thats one big cat.