Called a number of farmer's last pm, making sure I still had permission to hunt coyote. Spoke to a couple new ones as well, to gain permission. Obtained permission, farmer's good.
Spoke with one new farmer, in this cougar territory from the visual reports I've heard. He told me, two yrs ago during Fall corn harvest. His hired hand was combining a standing corn near a small hayfield with a pond with a few trees around the pond. 1/4 mile from the farmsted.
Farmhand stated he seen a cougar laying by another brown animal[he initially thought was a dead deer] by this pond on the grass. He came around again, combining. Well that time, the animal he thought was a dead deer. Arose, he said it was a cougar as well. He remarked, one was quite abit larger than the other.
He then drove up to the farmhouse & told the farmer. Farmer went through his gun safe quickly & couldn't find ammo for his .243. So he grabbed his AR & drove out to the pond. Both lions were gone.
Spoke with one new farmer, in this cougar territory from the visual reports I've heard. He told me, two yrs ago during Fall corn harvest. His hired hand was combining a standing corn near a small hayfield with a pond with a few trees around the pond. 1/4 mile from the farmsted.
Farmhand stated he seen a cougar laying by another brown animal[he initially thought was a dead deer] by this pond on the grass. He came around again, combining. Well that time, the animal he thought was a dead deer. Arose, he said it was a cougar as well. He remarked, one was quite abit larger than the other.
He then drove up to the farmhouse & told the farmer. Farmer went through his gun safe quickly & couldn't find ammo for his .243. So he grabbed his AR & drove out to the pond. Both lions were gone.