Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Predators and Varmints Mountain lion hunts open till June 30 - Idaho

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Southwestern Idaho-units 41&42 will be open to male lion hunting. Just received email from Fish and Game today. Same country I hunt chukars in from time to time. Remote country and can be rugged as hell. Thinking of taking my Rokon down there for a few days of exploring, finding petroglyphs, flint arrowheads and such. Like being on the moon away from any kind of civilization.

Will go down with the rifle and predator calls for 'yotes but the mountain lion thing will be new. Anyone had any experience with calling in lions ? Are they slow to respond <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />like bobcats ?

Never called a lion in but I was stalked by one and never knew it. I still shudder at the thought.

I don't have any experience calling them but do know of a several being taken by tracking and glassing.

All the arrowheads I've found in Idaho have been either obsidian or agate. Are you finding flint arrowheads or is this the name you use? Just curious

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Just recently there was a report of a guy walking the mountains in Idaho with his dog and got the attention of some wolves who followed him for some distance (quite close <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif" alt="" />). They were most likely after his dog which I think was a boxer but I could be wrong...second hand info.

Yea, I know the feeling you're referring to. Being the hunted is a major change isn't it ??? That's one of the reasons I like going after coyotes with a 22 mag. Get 'em up close and personal and then stand up and pop 'em on the run.

Had a close encounter with a Kodiak in the dark but that's another story. Tell more of your being tracked by the mountain lion <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> All I can tell you is the color of the arrowheads. I've not paid alot of attention to the difference b/t flint and the agate you refer to. Always thought flint was a light-medium brownish color and obsidian as I've come to understand is always black. I've found various colors of chinks of stone from old Indian camp sights and some have been quite different in color....even approaching white and semiclear.

One time I was taking a break on a cliff of Big Jacks Creek, just sitting there taking in the country, realizing how little it has changed in hundreds-thousands of years and in looking down at my feet I found that another had sat right there making arrowheads as there were chards everywhere and chunks of broken knife-spear blades. What a feeling. Can't be put into words. The little I know about agate is that I thought it came mostly from northern Idaho but then I'm not a rock hound. Just an interloper...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />