It's legal to hunt Cougars with .22 cal PCPs in New Mexico. That's Nutz!

Seems like they want to decrease the population of........airgunners!

Are they "unclassified game" there? Either way, that's pretty dumb.

WA is still far behind the times, where all we can legally hunt are unclassified animals (even though recent exceptions were made for air bolts / arrows for handicap hunters as an option along side crossbows).

Bad episode of Siegfried n Roy right there

Just because you can , does not mean you should.... and it falls on us to know what is right and appropriate.

I do not want the idiots in Santa Fe looking at the rules again. Any change they make will only be to the negative. Adding to the list of approved game would be O.K., reducing gives them momentum to ruin it all. They are trying hard to end all trapping and predator hunting. Those *********s are not your friends, ever. 



FWIW, Barbary sheep (Audad) are on the airgun list too.

What's the point? So what if it's legal to hunt cougar with a .22. I've seen folks take full grown deer with a .22 marauder. It's all about shot placement. Not cal size. Would you rather have it illegal? Is that your point? Then go talk to your government and ask them to make it illegal then. In here we cant help you bro.

Hmm.... Sure is a round-a-bout way of promoting Darwin's theory and trying to thin the herd.

well at least the Cougar will be fed lunch for his troubles

Had a Mountain Lion in backyard 2 years ago. 3 days later Blue Mountain Ski game trail cameras confirmed it was in area. I knew that was no Bobcat growl but I couldn’t believe it myself. I saw the greenish yellow eyes at 60 yards with flashlight and knew it was big from distance between eyes.

I wouldn’t shoot one unless I thought it was gonna be a problem. Now our children can’t go on trails alone without me & the Cane Corso. There’s way way more Black bear but a Eastern ML can take anything short of a Bear or pack of wolves/dogs out.

I've spent literally years of my life in the Cascade and Olympic mountains here in the PNW. I've woken up with LARGE cat tracks right outside of my tent the next morning, and seen evidence if them just about everywhere that I have been. I've never one seen one in the wild with my own eyes though, I'm positive that they've seen me.

They'll occasionally feast on yuppie mountain cyclists here, but they haven't given mr any problems and I can't really say that I'd ever want to try and hunt them (with any caliber). I consider myself an ethical hunter, but the type of people that would take a shot at them with a 22 cal airgun are likely not - and those types would stake that shot regardless of legality anyways

I used to throw my rifle sling over my shoulder, stuff my pistol in the holster then jump on my 250 Honda and head up to Larch mountain, a twenty minute ride from home, to shoot on the dead end back roads. One day about a hundred yards off the main road I startled a cougar and he started running through the woods near the ditch, kind of pacing me, next to the dirt road I was riding on. He was a big beautiful animal and as I slowed so did he. Then I stopped he did likewise about twenty yards away and we both just stared at each other for a long minute or so before he walked calmly and ever so quietly off into the woods never to be seen again. It was quite the experience. I often shot at or near that spot and just as often hiked through the woods just enjoying the outdoors. That was the only time I ever saw a large cat anywhere but in the zoo.

How times have changed. They dug up the paved roads and made it near impossible to even walk on them, put big metal gates across the dirt roads and stuck up no shooting signs everywhere. They made sure to include airguns with the new no shooting laws as well. I'm afraid to think of the trouble I would cause if I had a rifle slung over my shoulder, a pistol in my holster riding on a motorcycle these days. Such a deal. ;^( Now I drive in my car twenty minutes to a range to shoot my airguns. It's nice but it"s just not the same.

 If you all haven't been convinced by the latest and most utterly insane liberal BS, you should well pay attention. Liberal scumbag Governor of Virginia threatened to "cut power, cut internet" if folks did not hand over their arms, and "kill them" should they persist in not handing them over. I kid you not. 

It is with some disgust that I realized, long ago, that the "smarter and wiser" folks were NOT the ones making the rules. 

With the advent of slugs, it is only a matter of time until we airgunners come under the twisted liberal doctrines of disarmament. If you love to shoot as I do, time to start thinking about how this may effect us, and what we can do about it. 

You be lookin like dinner to me?

Twenty feet is a bit to close for comfort for me! Twenty yards was OK. It's so cool seeing these animals in the wild though.