The trigger fingers and the palms of western cougar hunters itched at the news. For the biggest cougar kill of the season (eight catsin nine days), Jesse Stockdale and his son Url, of Twisp, Wash, this week got a $400 bounty check$50 a carcassfrom the State Game Department.
Like all men who hunt with hounds, cougar hunters are out for more than money. They are proud of their dogs, of their skill, of their sport. A cougar hunter must be as rugged as the country he hunts the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S....
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