I finally finished doing my cougar mount from this year. I shot it in the eye, so it destroyed the skull for the most part, but I was able to save some of it.
I was a little afraid to open this one judging from the thread title...
Looks good, though!
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Maybe I should have said Mountain lion taxidermy mount. ;D
Cougar pic
Good looking mount, I like it! Looks like a very intelligent cat.
Beautiful animal and mount sir, I am a little jealous. Z :alien:
Fantastic job, wouldn't know there was any damage.......
Nice trophy, congrats. Agree with Tom, you did a great job with hide, no signs of repair around left eye socket.
Thank you. It was the first cougar I have ever seen in 45 years of being in the woods and my first time mounting a cougar anything.
It was following me down cat road in the timber at 18 steps.
Great looking mount...and great way to display it!
That is top quality work. Really good. You would think that you had mounted dozens of them by the way that turned out.
I am all for following the Law to a pretty extreme point, but once he decided to follow me persistently at a range of 18 or so paces, I would not care if it was open season or not, I would have dropped him. (I am not in any way saying you broke the law, I am referring to myself personally and what the rules might be in my home state which I just honestly do not know - because as you said, it is rare to encounter them, and we don't really even expect to in most places). But to have that big rascal tagging along that close, it had to be a at least a bit unnerving).
Thanks for sharing - that is a beautiful mount that you should be proud of.
great job, looks really nice.
Agree, awesome work ...
Yes, 18 steps being followed is not and ideal situation. That is around 30 ft. A cougar can travel 40 feet in .75 seconds. Less than a second away doesn't give you a lot of time to assess the situation. I had to aim between the eyes, so I was a little off.
I have always seen cougar sign in that property since I stared hunting it in 1978. It is dad's neighbor's property about 200 acres. When I decided to start hunting it this year, I called and asked for permission. They said sure you have life long permission. But, get a cougar tag. We have multiple cougars on trail cams in the.last.3 years and this year. So, I did get a tag . Cougar season is year around here in western Oregon. The pic behind the cat is the trail cam pic taken a few weeks before I killed it.
. I hadn't hunted in there for the last 10 years, so itwas nice hunt it again. I got my deer in there 2 days later.
Thanks for all the kind words. It really means a lot to me!
To add to the story, I had a doe tag to fill after I killed my cat and buck and went to an old familiar part of the woods that is only open during the month of November. I went to my favorite walk in unit and came around a sharp corner on the road. The other side of the bend was obstructed by brush and sapling willow and fir. Standing there broadside at about 12 yards was a larger cougar than the one I killed and was gray in color it turned and trotted away. I decided that since I only had 3 days I could try to fill my doe tag, it wasn't worth it to get a second cougar tag. I had to watch it leave my presence unscathed. I will be purchasing both tags this year and probably never see one again.