Steve Hornady hunts a large maned lion in Zim tonight at 530pm... Outdoor channel


Mike

Just watched it. Very good show.

Good Flick:

To bad they had to wake the lion up from a snooze by breaking sticks, before they shot him.

The first shot looked like it hammered him, with two follow up shots as insurance it was really over.

Regards... Jim P.

It didn't look like it was a very exciting hunt. Shooting a lion (One of the Worlds most dangerous animals) right after it was napping, accross a creekbed seems anticlimatic. Not Steve's fault. That is just hunting. I'm kinda surprised they showed it on TV!

It did kinda seem like shootin' fish in a barrel. If the 416 would have been a little off you could have seen a completely different story. I comend them for the insurance shots. I agree it did seem all too easy.

I did not see this.

One does not typically just walk up by accident on a sleeping lion.

Did they track him and stalk him from a bait to his laying up spot? Tracking and stalking a lion under any circumstances is very exciting.

One never knows what will happen next.

And there is no such thing as anticlimax when shooting a lion, even a sleeping one!

That shot had better count, or there will be hell to pay.

They went to the blind, but couldn't find the lion. They felt like the lion was still around, so they sent the tracker out, and he found the lion sleeping.

Their blind was on the opposite side of a riverbed to their bait, and the lion was sleeping pretty much right underneath them.

A short change of position, break some sticks, shoot the lion.

Easy? It may have looked easy on TV, but IMO, sneaking or stalking to within close range of a wild, free range, sleeping animal takes way more hunting skill than say sitting in a blind overlooking a waterhole and/or bait and shooting an animal when it comes in to drink or feed. Now that's easy.

They made it LOOK easy but I thought that was a sign of their skill. Paul Smith is a top notch PH as is Ian Gibson. Nice lion.

Not to mention Bernard, the tracker. That little man can climb to hang bait like you wouldn't believe, go back several miles for the truck by himself, always has a smile on his face and is totally devoted to Ian.

I like how that lion keyed in on the sound and it was like he was looking thru you...

MR they knew he hit the bait and sneaked up to the blind built by other PH checking out blinds.
When he was not around they sent out tracker to look around and tracker was not far from blind when he looked down over the hill off to the right.. Cat was lying down on sand after watering and napping with a belly full..

Mike