I loaded some of the wolf pack yesterday and went for a walk, hoping to start a lion. The dogs got lucky and struck a track that they could run in the dirt. It wasn't far and they had a young cat in the tree. hump
About the time I wanted to finish up my photo shoot that darn thing climbed down right in the middle of the hounds.....and away they went to my left. Seconds later, I could hear the thumping of padded feet coming my way and that crazy cat came back past me with the hounds on it's butt. But it didn't last long and they blew the air out of that cat and it climbed again. |oo
I should have quit while I was ahead but you know how it goes? Be daylight I had five hounds casting up a canyon with me bringing up the rear. The dogs did strike a scratchin tom lion before long, but where the lion had crosses snow drifts, the track had melt in it and no sun had hit the canyon floor yet.
This lion was going our way so I let the dogs trail it for three or four miles. But by 11:00 AM or so my butt was draggin and that lion popped out of a canyon like he was on the move so I quit him. It's alot easier to think about cold-trailing those old tom tracks in the dirt at home than in the field.
I think too many times we overlook the fact that lion hunting is about the hounds and not the tom lions we kill......killing is just killing!
Keep'em Looking Up |oo
Ike
About the time I wanted to finish up my photo shoot that darn thing climbed down right in the middle of the hounds.....and away they went to my left. Seconds later, I could hear the thumping of padded feet coming my way and that crazy cat came back past me with the hounds on it's butt. But it didn't last long and they blew the air out of that cat and it climbed again. |oo
I should have quit while I was ahead but you know how it goes? Be daylight I had five hounds casting up a canyon with me bringing up the rear. The dogs did strike a scratchin tom lion before long, but where the lion had crosses snow drifts, the track had melt in it and no sun had hit the canyon floor yet.
This lion was going our way so I let the dogs trail it for three or four miles. But by 11:00 AM or so my butt was draggin and that lion popped out of a canyon like he was on the move so I quit him. It's alot easier to think about cold-trailing those old tom tracks in the dirt at home than in the field.
I think too many times we overlook the fact that lion hunting is about the hounds and not the tom lions we kill......killing is just killing!
Keep'em Looking Up |oo
Ike