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04 March 2009, 19:10
SBT
Hoback Warrior
After lots of hard hunting, I have finally taken the lion of my dreams.



The outfitter was Bear Basin Outfitters ( www.bearbasinoutfitters.net )and the houndsman was Jason Reinhardt. The 10-12 year old cat was taken in the Hoback Canyon, Teton County, Wyoming.

I'll post more photos as they become available.


"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
04 March 2009, 19:44
375hnh
Looks like a big Kitty, Congratulations!


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04 March 2009, 21:33
Bill/Oregon
Details man!


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05 March 2009, 02:11
DesertRam
Probably the first mountain lion shot in a bar! rotflmo

All kidding aside, I too would like to hear the details of the hunt for this great trophy.


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05 March 2009, 03:50
kudu56
Looks like a nice cat! Congrats!
05 March 2009, 05:17
slimtim
congradulations! I am jealous! But, dont just tease us with the pictures give us the story.

Tim
05 March 2009, 05:52
SBT
Thanks you guys. I don't want to give away the whole story as Jason has been writing about each encounter with this lion for over five years and it will end up in a magazine article.

Suffice it to say that this cat killed his best dog five years ago, and has gotten away since then by standing his ground and slashing dogs. Monday was his demise after another fives days of tracking. The terrain was too tough to snow machine the dogs in, so fording the Hoback River during winter on foot was in order. After the shot, the cat landed on his feet ready to fight!

God, what a hunt!!!


"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
06 March 2009, 03:48
hnts4fun
Great job Scott! Congratulations on all the good stuff going on!

Matt
06 March 2009, 07:01
Ryan Campbell
Good job. Good to have gotten the old lion that he'd been hunting so long. Well done.

Let us know when that article comes out. I'd like to see it.

Also, I want to drink in a bar where you can bring in a dead Mt. Lion and it's cool with everyone.


The Hunt goes on forever, the season never ends.

I didn't learn this by reading about it or seeing it on TV. I learned it by doing it.
06 March 2009, 08:16
SBT
Thanks Matt, it has been a great week.

This will give you some idea of his size.


That photo is of Jason with the cat.


"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
06 March 2009, 09:48
JudgeG
quote:
Originally posted by SBT:
After lots of hard hunting, I have finally taken the lion of my dreams.



The outfitter was Bear Basin Outfitters ( www.bearbasinoutfitters.net )and the houndsman was Jason Reinhardt. The 10-12 year old cat was taken in the Hoback Canyon, Teton County, Wyoming.

I'll post more photos as they become available.


I want to live in a community where you can take a dead animal into a bar and everybody comes to your table to drink with you. I just don't see that happening in Atlanta.


JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous.
06 March 2009, 20:02
retreever
Scott,

Now you have to send some of that luck my way... Fantastic that cat close to 200lbs.?

Mike


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07 March 2009, 03:12
xgrunt
Making memories. The grins tell the story well.
Congratulations..............
07 March 2009, 06:10
SBT
Mike, he weighed 175 on a packer's scale and his belly was empty!


"There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark
07 March 2009, 09:04
bwanamrm
Good gosh! You are the Cat King, my friend. Congrats Scott!


On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of ten thousand, who on the dawn of victory lay down their weary heads resting, and there resting, died.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
- Rudyard Kipling

Life grows grim without senseless indulgence.
07 March 2009, 23:20
kudu56
quote:
I want to live in a community where you can take a dead animal into a bar and everybody comes to your table to drink with you. I just don't see that happening in Atlanta.


I have actually been in a bar with a dear head,caped, and a guy on a horse! Happens quite often.