Posted on 12/05/2023 5:08:53 AM PST by marktwain
On November 11, at about 3:45 in the afternoon, Ben Karash shot a mountain lion that was stalking him in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Karash was belted into his tree stand, hunting deer. He saw the lion coming closer from about 40 yards out. He shouted. He waved his arms. The lion knew he was there. The lion knew he was not a deer. The lion kept moving closer.
Have you ever watched a house cat stalk a bird? Mountain lions stalk their prey in a similar fashion.
I was able to talk to Tom Bilski, the District Attorney of Buffalo County. Tom was wonderfully open and transparent about what had happened. In recent years, people have thought the purpose of a prosecutor is to prosecute crimes. No. The purpose of a prosecutor is to see justice done. It is equally important to decide not to prosecute people as it is to prosecute them.
Tom said the local game warden, representing the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) asked him if he wished to prosecute the hunter who shot the lion. The local game warden, Bob Jumbeck, had investigated the incident after Ben Karasch called it in on the DNR hotline.
Karash had seen the big cat stalking him. It had come closer and closer, no matter what he did. He was in a vulnerable position, strapped to the tree, on his tree stand, with limited movement. As the cat neared the base of the tree, he drew his bow and fired an arrow into the upper body of the cat. The distance was later measured at 13 yards from him. Tom Bilsky stated he was told the arrow passed completely through the body of the mountain lion, which was measured at 128 lbs. The mountain lion ran about 120 yards after being shot
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I may have been unclear. My point was that if I don’t think I can prove each element BRD, I don’t bring the case at all.
Cool. I hope he gets to keep it and has it mounted.
Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup
Karash mastered the art of turning a killer kitty into a peaceable kitty - in one shot.
Well done, Karash!
I had a mountain lion cross in front of my car on the street where I live in northeast Connecticut. Called it in to the DEP and they informed me there were no mountain lions in CT. Social media blew up all around me with sightings of a mountain lion that weekend.
There was a dead one found on the highway in Milford CT a few years ago.
I always carried my .40 when I went hunting deer with my muzzleloader. I liked my odds better having 10 in the magazine vs. one in my rifle.
Your reply caused me to check the online regs and it appears the regs have been updated to reflect the carry laws. This has apparently happened since my last reading of the regs.
FR membership has its advantages....
My old manager was moving to the west side of Colorado & her husband and sons were pushing to get a gun because they like to hike. Told her the gun should have a 4 in the caliber. She said they’d been going to Colorado and hiking the 14,000 ft peaks for years & never had an issue.
Where I hunted, Woodbine, Iowa, they had reports of two juvenile mountain lions on the property next to the one I was hunting. The DNR had killed an adult that had dug out a den under a junked car about 20 miles from my location.
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