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Cougar Hunting

The best cougar hunting adventures and stories, plus everything you need to know about cougar management.

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The Truth About Cougar Attacks on Humans, From an Officer Who Investigated Them

By John Lesowski

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Calling Mountain Lions at Close Range Is a Predator Hunt Unlike Anything Else

By Scott Haugen

archival photo of theodore roosevelt on a hunt in colorado
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I Interviewed Teddy Roosevelt After His Wilderness Mountain Lion Hunt. Here’s Why His Rifle Had Teeth Marks

By J.A. McGuire

A blue illustration of a big cougar fighting a dog while a scared boy falls nearby
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I Faced Off with a Cornered, Wounded Mountain Lion by Myself. I Was 12

By Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton

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Hunting Cougars with Ben Lilly, the Last of the Mountain Men

By Frank C. Hibben

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The Game Warden Asked Us to Track One Lion. We Found Four in Two Days

By Leroy Smith

A mountain lion stands on a pine tree branch.
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As Cougar Sightings Continue in Oklahoma, Lawmakers Are Moving to Set a Hunting Season

By Alice Jones Webb

Maggie the magnificent
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Maggie Was a Goofy, Distractible Mutt, and the Best Lion Dog I Ever Hunted Behind

By Frank C. Hibben

A man hauls on the reins of a falling horse.
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We Tracked a Cougar into a Box Canyon Maze. The Cliffs Almost Killed Us and Our Horses

By Charles Elliott

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Coloradans Vote Down a Big Cat Hunting Ban in a Massive Win for Hunters and Conservationists

By Dac Collins

A hunter and his dog kneel behind a crowd.
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Colorado’s Prop 127 Is an Attack on Modern Wildlife Management and the Science that Guides It

By Dac Collins

Mountain Lion atop a Rocky Outcrop Looking Ahead into the Trees
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A Big Cat Hunting Ban Would Cost Colorado More Than $60 Million, Study Shows

By Dac Collins

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Lion Hunting Ban Qualifies for Colorado’s November Ballot

By Andrew McKean

A mountain lion in the trees.
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Anti-Hunting Group Gets Enough Signatures to Put a Cougar Hunting Ban on the Colorado Ballot This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

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Anti-Hunting Groups Are Running a Paid Signature Campaign to Ban Cougar Hunting in Colorado. Conservation Orgs Launch “Decline to Sign” Effort

By Andrew McKean

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Close Call: I Shot a Mountain Lion at 7 Paces

By Scott Haugen

A mountain lion jumps over a man standing below.
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Watch: A Biologist Darts a Mountain Lion. It Nearly Attacks Him

By Dac Collins

A mountain lion tom peeks through some branches.
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Colorado Cancels April Mountain Lion Season Amid Anti-Hunting Opposition

By Dac Collins

A bloody cougar faces off with a hound dog.
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My Third and Final Showdown with the Cougar Called Bloody-Foot, From the Archives

By Jim Osman

Mountain Lions in Michigan: Another Confirmed Cougar Sighting Makes For 10 This Year
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Mountain Lions in Michigan: Another Confirmed Cougar Sighting Makes For 10 This Year

By Bob McNally