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Anyone ever been Lion Calling???
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The new season dates for Black Hills Mountain Lion, works for my schedule. I plan on going calling this January. One problem, I don't know any of the following:

1) What kind of Territory does a guy look for to set up in??

2) What kind of calls work the best?

3) What caliber of gun is most effective? Large .270 - .300 and up or Small .243 or down?

4) How long / stand

If you have answers to any of these you can reply on the comment line below or just drop me an Email admin@sodakadventure.com

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

2008-10-25 21:01:39 GMT
Comments (3 total)
Author:MurdockH
You need to look for cat sign like scat or ground scratches or places they urinate against a tree. Once there terr. is found you will need an electric caller with lion vocals (WT) and spend at least one hour or more on stand. Place the caller away from you cause they can and will come in from almost any direction and will come right in to the caller..Good hunting.. Tim A
2008-10-25 23:46:11 GMT
Author:MurdockH
I talked to the guy that shot it, he used Mountain Lion vocalizations to call it in. They set up by one coulee and called for about an hour, didn't see anything so they only moved a short distance into another drainage. They gave that spot about the same amount of time then stood up. There was a Lion right near where they set up the first time looking at them. It didn't run and they were able to shoot it. Apparently it was pretty windy so they didn't move far between stands which is lucky. I'm assuming that one was watching them the whole time so I would do a lot of glassing for one sneaking in. You will probably have the advantage of snow so I would look for tracks before setting up. I've never called Lions but if there was snow I would say you could follow a fresh track and set up on each coulee it might have held up in. If you don't get a response keep following it. The hard part would probably be to find a fresh set of tracks. I would think a combination of Lion vocalizations and adult deer distress would be the most effective. I think Fox Pro has that sound.
CoyoteHunter
2008-10-26 23:35:32 GMT
Author:MurdockH
I'm putting up comments that people are emailing me, the comment line doesn't seem to be working. This new Blog manager has me completely confused. If you want to email me its murdockh@sodakadventure.com

Thanks for your emails.

2008-10-28 12:33:24 GMT
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