Posted on 11/20/2017 8:20:41 AM PST by w1n1
Mr. GG2 used to be a govt bounty hunter. One day he got called out to a rancher who had a mountain lion sitting on a hill everyday watching his kids play. Mr. GG2 said he tracked the lion up the ridge all day til late afternoon. Then it tracked him down the ridge. It was getting near dark and he was really moving fast with the lion right behind him. This went on for a couple of days and he never did get a good shot at it.
My Grampa and some of his Army buddies used to hunt elk and mule deer around Aspen.
One year (1960-ish) shortly after Grampa rolled into town his buddy the sheriff asked if he wanted to fill his tag without a bunch of work. So off they went... to the high school... where a herd of elk had been grazing on the football field every afternoon. Boom. Dead elk. They drove the truck out onto the field, loaded the elk, and back to camp they went.
The news beat them back to camp, and they got a royal @$$ chewing from the mayor, who was another Army buddy and hunted out of the same camp.
Somewhere there are pictures, but it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to find them. My idiot drug addict brother got the mount after Grampa passed away and sold it to a chinaman who planned to grind up the antlers to make dick pills.
Some stuff, you just can’t make it up...
I live in N. Idaho where there are lots of cougars (the 4 legged kind). A friend who is in his mid-70’s was glassing for elk on a local mountain two years ago. He has a crossbow permit due to shoulder problems. He told me all of a sudden the hair on the back of his neck stood up. He looked behind him and there was a big lion staring at him licking its chops about 25 feet away. He raised the crossbow and loosed the bolt. The lion jumped high into the air and took off running. He found the bolt past where the lion was and there was a good blood trail for a while. As we say in emergency medicine, all bleeding stops, eventually. He went back the next day and found the carcass from the scavenger birds flying around it. To make the trophy category in Idaho a cougar skull must measure 13.5”. Tom’s lion measured 14.5”. That was a big kitty!
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