Mountain Cougar is Home

I made a post on here last year when I shot this cat. We called her in with a Foxpro at my deer lease in Val Verde County. Been a long wait, but she is finally back home.

Safari Studios out of San Angelo did the mount. We never weighed her, but they have done quite a few Texas cats. They said it was a pretty good size cat for Texas. We guessed her to be around 3 years old and close to full grown. The aoudad skull is from one I shot off of the same place a few years ago.

Looks great!

That is an awesome looking mount! Congrats

I remember that. Pretty cool. Mount looks great.

Nice mount.

Cool!

Very nice, Jimmy Fontenot does great work at Safari Studios. Congrats on a beautiful mount and a great trophy!

I'm VERY impressed! The next mt. lion I shoot, will be called in (it may take a lifetime). Or a target of opportunity from a deer stand.

Very cool

A great trophy! Nicely done calling her in.

hats off to you ! great looking cat !!

Wow, beautiful!

Awesome! Congrats!

Neat mount, like the Aoudad skull worked in.

Very cool mount. Congrats

Pretty neat mount. Congrats

beautiful

Very impressive

Yep, nice. Congrats!

They did a great job.

I remember your post and the mount looks great! Few people have a cat on their wall, and yours is something to be proud of.

thats great, congrats

awesome!

Outstanding

I missed the story about calling it in. That's just so cool. Where you trying to call in a mountain lion or just coyotes and bobcats. I've had success with them, but never even dreamed about a mountain lion coming in to a call. What call where you using?


Congratulations, that'a fantastic mount!!!!

Trying to call a bobcat actually. We are in lion country, so we always thought there was a possibility we could call a lion, but figured it was a longshot. Started with 10 minutes of baby cottontail, she came in about 5 minutes into jackrabbit distress.

Impressive!

WOW
Looks great

Trophy of a lifetime! Congrats

What an awesome mount

Wonder how close you where to the mountain lion before calling her, or how often we all walk right past one without knowing it's there. I've always figured the law of averages are that at one point or another, it has to happen to all of us.

A buddy of mine was walking down a trail out deer hunting and as he came around a bend, a mountain lion was right in front of him, less then ten feet away. My buddy just froze, and the lion jumped off to the side and disappeared. He said it happened real quick, faster then he could even think of what to do. His rifle never left his shoulder.

I've had the chance to kill one before but haven't because i thought they were too pretty and kinda numbered. But after seeing your mount I wish I had dropped the hammer.
Way cool cat n mount. Congrats

I remember that. Beautiful mount. Didn't you have a video of the hunt? If you did could you repost it? Congratulations again, that really is awesome.

Very nice!

Beautiful mount. Very cool how they have on on the rocks.

Looks great!

Nevermind, was confused with someone years ago that shot a mountain lion calling after dark. Their buddy posted a video. I did find your original thread though ... very cool !

http://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/5568948/1

congrats looks great