Trail Camera Clips

[southwestwalkers]

hehehehehe... this is better than Don Imas

[killroy]

I have had hounds for 17 years and have been a guide for 8 years. In all this time I have only seen two lions with bobbed tails. The first was a female, she not only had a bobbed tail, she also had a tag in one ear, these did not stop the hunter from taking her. When the hunter got home he wrote his hunting story and sent it and the pictures in to a hunting magazine where it was published. He won a couple of awards for his article. She is now a mount with a short tail.

The second lion was this last winter. I was hunting the Zion's unit and we stopped a tom on some really bad ledges. There was about 6 inches of snow on the ground and was worried about loosing dogs over the edge. So as soon as he could I had the hunter put an arrow into the lion. We didn't know it had a bobbed tail until after it was dead. This hunters dad is a taxidermist and he took a racoon's tail, trimmed up the hair and dyed it black, he then took 8 inches of it and sewed it to the lion's tail to replace the black tip that was missing. What is the saying "A good taxidermist can fix anything".

[killroy]

I know that most houndsman and most resident lion hunters would turn down a lion with a short tail because they know they will probably get another chance, but an out-of-state hunter thinks a little different. Over the past 5 years I have guided or help guide over 100 out-of-state lion hunters. A lion hunt is the hardest hunt that most of them have every been on. After riding around in a pick-up for two or three days looking for a track, then an 8-10 hour hike following dogs, they are thinking one thing when they get under the tree, that I may never have a chance to see another lion and if it is a legal lion I am going to take it. Believe me to most of them a short tail is not going to change their minds. If you think it is you haven't had many out of state hunters.

I know there are alot of new houndsmen and young houndsmen on this site that eat this kind of stuff up. They think it would be cool to shoot off a lions tail to save its life so they can be a hero. But you might want to know last winter when I took this bobbed tail tom to the game warden to be tagged, I asked him what he would do if he caught someone bobbing a cats tail. He told me he would start by writing two tickets. The first is harrassing wildlife and the second is mutilating wildlife. I'm thinking that today with all of the animal rights that if you were given these two tickets they would just lock you up and throw the key away.

[BigGameHunter]

Well I will give you one thing........you surely have a corner on the out of state hunter market if you have taken over a hundred in Utah in the last 5 years.
That averages out to be 20 per year...just out of staters. WOW!

That darn Fish and Game.....if they would quite issuing so many tags we wouldn't have to kill so many lions right?

[Ojos Rojos 2]

How on earth does the Bobcat continue to exist?

[Brady Davis]

Crap killroy, of those 100 hunters, how many lions did you help them take? There may be part of the problem....

[Kenneth]

I agree with you southwestwalkers. I'm getting a chuckle out of George's "tramp stamp" remark, too.