get-n-birdy wrote:Funny how we don't have them, yet there's a law on the hooks they can't be shot and are a protected species.
In Iowa you they are completely unprotected. If you're driving through Iowa with a firearm in your car, and happen to see a cougar in the ditch, you can get out and shoot the thing and it's yours. No need to buy a license of any kind or be a resident.
So if you ever see a mountain lion and want to be able to shoot it and keep it afterwards?
Shoot it and drive it to Iowa. Pull over by a suitable ditch for claiming you shot it in, dump the cat in it, call the DNR, tell them you were on a joy ride to clear your head over your [marriage, career, kids, or any other bullshit excuse] so there's a reason why you were driving around down in their state, and then start calling taxidermists to price out how you want to get it done while the DNR writes up your permit for possessing the animal.....ensuring you can get a CITES tag for it.
There you go.....free license to shoot a mountain lion.