Posted on 01/08/2008 2:08:31 PM PST by SoDak
She may be 80 years old, but Martha Smith of rural Fairburn is still a good shot.
She has lived her entire life on the family ranch in the Black Hills and last week encountered her first mountain lion. Smith says she heard her dog bark, looked outside and saw the big cat in the garden.
She was afraid for the dog's safety so she grabbed her .22-caliber rifle, went outside, took a shot but missed so she called 911.
Smith says she grabbed the gun again, went back out and found the cat, "a spittin' and a growlin’”, so she waited to spot the light-colored hair where his heart was, took another shot and dropped it.
Game officers picked up the 90-pound carcass. Smith would like to get it mounted but doubts that she'll get it back.
as a dislocated Texan, that just warms the heart don’t it.
Reindeer .... beware of Grandma.
Way to go grandma...That lady has to be one tough bird!
I pity the mountain lion that wanders into my 70 year old mom’s backyard. She has a bigger rifle. It does warm the heart knowing mom (or grandmom) can take care of herself.
I know Indians who drop moose with them.
Wonder if she winged it the first time rather than missing, otherwise why would it stick around after the first shot?
these cats have lost their fear of man - you go girl.
She shot varmints in her gardens every day. She always kept a loaded rifle on her kitchen table.
A .22?
before I was adopted my real grand ma would go out to the back door porch and grab a sawed off 12 gauge with tape holding th stalk and shoot two reloads into the tree line to scare crow from her pecan trees..........she went by noise.....birds too loud / boom Boom
Good for her! Mountain lions are nasty creatures. I keep remembering the book “Where the red fern grows” and how the mountain lion killed the dogs in the book. I’m glad we don’t have those in Illinois.
My sister and I stayed on the farm with my Great Grandmother while our parents were doing something important....I can't remember what it was because I was only 9 at the time.
While we were eating breakfast we spotted a skunk in the yard, approaching the house. I think everyone knows that when wild animals seem to act suddenly tame or with no fear of humans, you have to suspect the animal is rabid.
Geat Grandma grabbed a single shot .410 shotgun, chambered a round and blew the skunk away.
Later they notified the Iowas State Conservation Commission, they came and took the carcass and came back with the report that the skunk did have rabies and they launched a survey to try and find other rabid animals in the area.
Don’t try that in California.
there is a famous guy from Oxnard Ca named punchy Pete who made Sports Illustrated in 55 or 56 by running deer to death on Santa Rosa Island of the Channel Islands.
punchy had 6 deer in 8 hours
ran em til dead, carried em out on his shoulders,ate and went back...........true story
Eighty-year-old granny protects her dog from a mountain lion.
LOL
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