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12-09-2016, 01:48 PM
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2016 Cougar Hunt
My wonderful wife got me a guided cougar hunt for my birthday. We ended up going with Wayne and Cee Jay Anderson out of Rocky Mountain house. We did not have any idea of what to expect on this hunt. My partner and I have hunted all kinds of big game before but using dogs and chasing cats was a whole other experience. We had an absolutely awesome hunt and shared some very cool experiences. We passed up a nice female cat we treed on the first day. It was only about an hour into our hunt so I made the tough decision to pass it up. You know how that goes, there is always some bad Karma about passing on a really nice animal. On our second day we ended up on multiple cats at once and one of the dogs got dragged by a cougar for 50 feet before we got to the dog. The dog looks like it will be ok and hopefully will come out with an even bigger hate on for these cats.
On the day we got our tom we found fresh tracks and set the dogs out. The dogs lead us right to a fresh kill with the Cougar bedded beside it. The dogs pushed the cougar out and we had a 2 km long chase on our hands. Ended up getting a great Cat and thanks again to our guides, they are excellent at what they do. We had cold conditions but everyone on our hunt was on the same page and everyone was up for the challenge.
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12-09-2016, 01:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: North of the Kakwa
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Awesome !!!
Congrats on your cat. Cool finding the deer like that.
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12-09-2016, 02:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Medicine Hat
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Congrats on a beauty of a cat!! Pretty crazy you got to see a kill buried like that as well. Looks like you had quite adventure.
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12-09-2016, 03:38 PM
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Nice Tom congrats!
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12-09-2016, 04:22 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Edmonton
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Is that big guy going in the office??
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12-09-2016, 04:48 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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My BIL used to work in the oilfield with Wayne. Wayne's a top notch cat guide.
He guided my BIL and SIL to a real nice Tom and a female.
Congrats. What an awesome gift
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12-09-2016, 07:06 PM
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Cat hunt
Nice cat you won't find better guides then those two men , they got me a good pope and young cat in 2007 , unreal hunt that I will never forget !!!
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12-09-2016, 07:39 PM
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Location: Lacombe County
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congrats he looks great, love the buried kill pic too.. you can learn alot about where to hunt deer by trailing big cats, thx for posting chain
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12-09-2016, 08:39 PM
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Thats sweet! I wish my wife was more like yours, haha! Congrats on a great cat!
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12-09-2016, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Originally Posted by 300magman
Thats sweet! I wish my wife was more like yours, haha! Congrats on a great cat!
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If ever there was an understanding wife....
It's yours! 
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12-10-2016, 05:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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Brought this Tom to sugar creek for a visit with Marco. Good luck to everyone one out there chasing cats. Stay warm!
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12-11-2016, 10:12 AM
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Congrats on your Cat, thanks for sharing.
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12-11-2016, 10:21 AM
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Great cat, great adventure. Have you had a chance to weigh and measure him yet?
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12-11-2016, 11:44 AM
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Never weighed him but guide figured about 180 lbs ish. All I know is that he was heavy. I get the skull back next week.
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12-11-2016, 01:09 PM
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Awesome cat, man I have to wipe that hunt off the bucket list!!!!
Congrats !!!!!
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12-11-2016, 02:40 PM
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Congrats on a great tom!
Met Wayne when I worked around Rocky cpl years ago and spotted all the hounds,stopped in for a good chat and hope to book a hunt one of these years.
We used to run coons and bobcat back in my youth back east,so cougar is way up there on my bucket list.....just to listen to and chase hounds again will be awesome in itself!
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12-11-2016, 06:19 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: edmonton
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Congrats on your Tom. Very nice pics, esp. the deer kill. Very nice present from your wife. You better get her something nice for Christmas. lol
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12-11-2016, 08:25 PM
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Wow!!! Good job!!!!! One less kitty to eat game.
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12-12-2016, 04:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by M shooter
My wonderful wife got me a guided cougar hunt for my birthday. We ended up going with Wayne and Cee Jay Anderson out of Rocky Mountain house. We did not have any idea of what to expect on this hunt. My partner and I have hunted all kinds of big game before but using dogs and chasing cats was a whole other experience. We had an absolutely awesome hunt and shared some very cool experiences. We passed up a nice female cat we treed on the first day. It was only about an hour into our hunt so I made the tough decision to pass it up. You know how that goes, there is always some bad Karma about passing on a really nice animal. On our second day we ended up on multiple cats at once and one of the dogs got dragged by a cougar for 50 feet before we got to the dog. The dog looks like it will be ok and hopefully will come out with an even bigger hate on for these cats.
On the day we got our tom we found fresh tracks and set the dogs out. The dogs lead us right to a fresh kill with the Cougar bedded beside it. The dogs pushed the cougar out and we had a 2 km long chase on our hands. Ended up getting a great Cat and thanks again to our guides, they are excellent at what they do. We had cold conditions but everyone on our hunt was on the same page and everyone was up for the challenge.
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How did you end up finding these guides?
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12-12-2016, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by M shooter
Never weighed him but guide figured about 180 lbs ish. All I know is that he was heavy. I get the skull back next week.
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Great cat! Congrats. Don't forget the steaks...they are primo.
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12-12-2016, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by fingershooter
Great cat! Congrats. Don't forget the steaks...they are primo.
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I second that! the backstraps are exactly like pork loin
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12-12-2016, 08:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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I actually started on the apos website. www.apos.ab.ca And started looking for a cougar guide. There are not that many so it made the search fairly quick. I looked at the ones that had a website and came across one that sounded like suited our hunting style. We did not I st want to sit around and what for a phone call that they cut some tracks. We wanted to be involved in the hunt not just th ending. When I called him he said he other commitments but recommended the andersons. I also looked at some of the other posts about cougar hunting on the this forum and there were some good posts that mentioned some guides. I highly recommend them and would be glad to pass on their contact info.
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12-16-2016, 11:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by M shooter
I actually started on the apos website. www.apos.ab.ca And started looking for a cougar guide. There are not that many so it made the search fairly quick. I looked at the ones that had a website and came across one that sounded like suited our hunting style. We did not I st want to sit around and what for a phone call that they cut some tracks. We wanted to be involved in the hunt not just th ending. When I called him he said he other commitments but recommended the andersons. I also looked at some of the other posts about cougar hunting on the this forum and there were some good posts that mentioned some guides. I highly recommend them and would be glad to pass on their contact info. |
Thanks for the info
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