Being that this was my 42nd birthday, I was pretty happy with the way things worked out! The cougar weighed 120 pounds, a very nice tom, and as an extra bonus, Jake handed me the skull of the cat`s most recent kill, an eight-point whitetail buck which he`d found while following the trail. A year ago, on this day, I`d been in the Central African Republic, shooting a cape buffalo; quite a contrast!