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Good job! Fun read.

It's better to be lucky... though you were good, and far better prepared than most hunters to actually shoot what showed up, not just get excited and tell us a story of how it got away.

Good follow-up tracking as well. After shooting several called ones and having a hard time tracking soft footed creature on moss and duff, we try to get an exit hole and a blood trail. Lions are fairly easy to kill, but often extremely hard to find once shot, as you found. You did well all the way.

Cool story and also love the pics of your processing help. Always good to get them involved. I can remember when my girls were young they would "help"/watch when I processed deer and the oldest was always pulling silver skin off.

Nice work!

Way too cool nimrod. Congrats!

Damn cool way to get a cat, congrats. Treat the meet like pork. My wife roasted a whole hindquarter with cloves and some kind of orange glaze, spectacular.

That is about as good as it gets. Congratulations

Cool story and nice score. The best though is the pic of your daughter running the grinder takes me back years when mine did that. Mb

Nice cat.

Nice! Well done!

I'd love to get the story on my website if you don't mind. (Happy to put in your website with it.)

She’s a trooper. Always trying to shoot up my ammo but willing to help reload too. Her older sister likes the wrapping part of putting up meat so they make a good team.




Thanks! For inspiration I’ve watched your videos and read stories on your website. You’re welcome to use my story!

Nice job. I'm in your neck of the woods and I run across lions every once in awhile. Idaho is highly populated with them. Last weekend out riding my enduro I had one pop out on the trail in front of me that looked like the size of a African lioness. Good grief that thing was a monster. Most of them I've seen are lithe and thin but this looked like it had escaped from a zoo being big and well fed.

Outstanding write up! Thanks for sharing. You took the time to describe the hunt, took the trophy pic and even found and took pics of the bullet. Great job!

Will do. Ever since the wife got an Instapot the crock pot has been available. I've done a few but it is limited to what fits in the pot. They do a great job of low and slow. Keeps me from over cooking/boiling skulls which is super lame.


Jerry, I wouldn't reach for the 10.5" 223 for mountain lion but if that is all I have I'm not passing My 12.5" Grendel would probably get the nod if I was calling specifically for lion or wolf.
I've killed a fair amount of critters with a 223 and have confidence in it. I could have shot her a few inches farther forward and probably had a quicker death. I was ~4" inches behind the shoulder instead of tucked next to it. Caught the back of the lungs instead of the center. She only went ~75 yards.



It was not a comfortable situation and I was glad I was not alone!!


Yes Indeed !! That was my point.

I have used my 22 semi pistol WHEN it was all I had. I understand.

Congrats


Jerry

EPIC!

Congrats! I had to sort out a wounded bobcat in thick cover one time and treaded uber-lightly - I can't imagine going into the brush after one of those things.

Local friend here, got a Fox Pro, and was using the turkey call to try and call in coyotes with it...

It attracted more bear and Cougars than coyotes.... of course the coyotes may have been staying out of the area due to the amount of bear and cougars
in the hills up behind his home.

I've had cats track me when I've been out hunting at altitude, seeing their foot prints in the snow, where they have followed me from my truck on a walk and back...
seeing their foot prints in my foot prints... yet cats are as silent as a shadow....

real cool story Nimrod and congrats on your catch..... I think we all loved the pic including your daughter making sausage......

We've got a coyote running around our neighborhood, the size of a German Shepard... I'd like to take that thing down...

about 1 AM last night, I heard it real close to my place, as I heard the moans of a small puppy it had evidently caught close by, out in its yard...

I'll go look for it this morning if they is anything left of the poor puppy.

Congrats!

Good work all around!

Neat story. Hearing it breathing without being able to see the cat might have justified a “sound shot” in the dark. Just kidding 😊

In over 25 years of hunting in Colorado, I’ve only seen a couple of lions while elk hunting. I’ve also seen their tracks in my tracks in the snow. It makes you wonder…..

Very cool and I’m jealous. I’ve called in one that I know of by the tracks but I didn’t see it. Called lots of coyotes bobcat and fox still waiting to get a lion that I called.

Bet that was quite a thrill.



I’m still using my knife!

Great!!

Mountain lion is good eating. Congrats