I would say up here in wa state its a mixed bag. Some guys just want the cool pelt hanging on the wall and some do truly enjoy cougar steaks :barf: Personaly I havent ever shot a cougar but if I had the chance I would because the population here has really gone through the roof since they outlawed hound hunting. According to many its why the deer population has dropped recently in some areas. For example on Iron mt. in republic wa they did a study where 18 cougars were found to be enhabiting this small mt. in a group of hundreds of other hills that werent studied. Deer remains were being found at a higher rate than usual. They were finding the death to be caused by cougars.
So I would shoot one but I cant say that I would eat it. I would however not waste the meat. i would give it away to someone who wanted it. The pelt i would keep.
