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I’ve seen plenty of Mt Lions, I used to guide for them in NM.
Once you learn what to look for and how to spot cat sign most would be shocked how many cats are living in close proximity to people without the slightest problem. There’s a big male and an occasional female that have killed three deer that I’ve found within several hundred yards of my back door here in Colorado. I’ve never seen the cats themselves only their tracks and their calling card deer kills. A Lion killed deer will almost always have a fractured neck at the cervical level.
Lions are a natural predator that has an important role in the eco system. They were here long before man entered the scene. If you want to do your part for conservation buy a tag and try to hunt a lion. You’re going to find out it’s not easy. The only effective way to hunt lions is with well trained hounds. And if you ever do that you’ll find out that everything you ever thought about hound hunting is most likely wrong too.
Hunting lions with hounds can be extremely physically demanding and the time money and knowledge it takes to train and maintain lion hounds is pretty staggering. I love Mt Lions and hunting them, they are truly one of the most misunderstood wild animals in North America.
Here are some Mt Lion facts.
1. They are ground feeders, they don’t drag their kills into trees like Asian and African leopards do.
2. They don’t come in black, there’s never been a documented black Mt Lion in the history of man kind. (The one in Costa Rica wasn’t black either)
3. They avoid people for the most part. Unlike some Asian and African big cats that actively hunt humans. While the occasional human has been attacked by a Mt Lion they are not man eaters.
4. People tend to absolutely freak out at the mention of or the mere sighting of a Mt Lion. Hunting them and learning about them from old time highly experienced Lion men taught me to deeply respect them as intelligent hunters and crafty prey. But I don’t fear them or sensationalize them. They are beautiful, intelligent, capable, solitary and effective predators.
Once you learn what to look for and how to spot cat sign most would be shocked how many cats are living in close proximity to people without the slightest problem. There’s a big male and an occasional female that have killed three deer that I’ve found within several hundred yards of my back door here in Colorado. I’ve never seen the cats themselves only their tracks and their calling card deer kills. A Lion killed deer will almost always have a fractured neck at the cervical level.
Lions are a natural predator that has an important role in the eco system. They were here long before man entered the scene. If you want to do your part for conservation buy a tag and try to hunt a lion. You’re going to find out it’s not easy. The only effective way to hunt lions is with well trained hounds. And if you ever do that you’ll find out that everything you ever thought about hound hunting is most likely wrong too.
Hunting lions with hounds can be extremely physically demanding and the time money and knowledge it takes to train and maintain lion hounds is pretty staggering. I love Mt Lions and hunting them, they are truly one of the most misunderstood wild animals in North America.
Here are some Mt Lion facts.
1. They are ground feeders, they don’t drag their kills into trees like Asian and African leopards do.
2. They don’t come in black, there’s never been a documented black Mt Lion in the history of man kind. (The one in Costa Rica wasn’t black either)
3. They avoid people for the most part. Unlike some Asian and African big cats that actively hunt humans. While the occasional human has been attacked by a Mt Lion they are not man eaters.
4. People tend to absolutely freak out at the mention of or the mere sighting of a Mt Lion. Hunting them and learning about them from old time highly experienced Lion men taught me to deeply respect them as intelligent hunters and crafty prey. But I don’t fear them or sensationalize them. They are beautiful, intelligent, capable, solitary and effective predators.
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