The Nike Mom

[liontracker]

I had been cutting track for 3 ½ hrs and had not found anything but females and kittens. I was dead ended at the top of the mountain, so I turned around and headed back over my own tracks. At 9:30 I found where a 130 lb class sub adult male, who was still living with his mom, had crossed over my tracks from a few hours earlier. I got out and looked around for mom and it appeared that he was alone. In a couple of minutes I had the Koflach’s laced up tight and dumped the three Camerons, old Blue, his daughter Zia and her son Iceman – a Blueman son. With three generations of solid lion hounds on the ground, I felt pretty good. In short order we came to where he had made a stalk and jumped 25 feet onto the back of a muledeer. He rode the deer about 30 yards and then they slammed into a Ponderosa and the lion fell off. They went their separate ways, the deer had no blood in it’s tracks’, but the lion had broken a left rear toenail and was leaving blood in it’s track as it walked away. I always wonder at some of the things I see when I go track for track with the dogs.

About ½ mile further, there lays mom’s track, squarely over the top of junior’s. Of coarse, the dogs took mom and disappeared. I followed along and came to a steep open rock/dirt slide. I saw where she stopped and turned on the dogs briefly on the edge and then she made a run for the off limits zone. It was a subdivision of 40 acre lots and houses. At the bottom of the 1 mile long slope, she turned and fought again. The whole slope was bare of any trees, brush or grass. I would have surely liked to get a video of her running at breakneck speed down that slope with those three Camerons on her ass! I stood at the rim and turned on the tracker. They were treed four miles away.

I made it down to the valley floor and started towards the dogs. Just then, here comes this SUV hauling ass up to us and out jumps this guy with a semi auto pistol in his hand, locked and cocked and ready to rock. The dude looked like ZZ Top’s brother and was definitely going to exercise Colorado’s “Make My Day Law” and shoot somebody. It took me 20 minutes to get him calmed down. Come to find out somebody had been stealing things from the houses in there and this dude was dead set on putting an end to it.
I told him that I had a pistol like his in my pack and would be more that happy to shoot a thief for him myself. Come to find out, he had motion sensors all through the woods and the hounds and lion had tripped them when they went through. After a 45 minute meeting, 300yds from the tree, I asked him how he felt about killing lions. He said, “I used to own Redbones and Walkers, as far as I care, kill ‘em all”. Well I wasn’t about to shoot a female, but it was good to know. Just then, here comes Blue and Iceman to see why I wasn’t coming to the tree. I quickly excused ourselves and went to see Zia and the female in the tree. When I got there, guess what? She had jumped from one Ponderosa to the one next door, and then jumped onto a 20 foot diameter boulder that was 10 feet high, and then off to the adjacent north slope, and then over the top. Zia had figured it out and was on her way, but I shut her down.

We were way too far into civilization to go any further. Besides, we were five miles from the truck and would be lucky to get back by dark as it was. It had rained most of the day and was really coming down at that point. I felt we were lucky enough, to have not been shot and arrested, so we left well enough alone. Yep, the Nike Mom, she has definitely been schooled over the years.

[Mikes Hero]

Please let us all know where the "130 lb class sub adult male" cats live I would love to hunt there. Must be good genetics.

[lucus4440]

What a story!

[liontracker]

Yes awesome genetics...only 30 miles from where the new Colorado state record was taken. Believe it or not, but someone just killed a 150lb. female near there. They thought it was a Tom.

[houndnem]

a 150 lb female? come on now.

[chancemarquette]

this story is about as believeable as the tooth fairy

[houndogr]

Hey where did my post go did someone remove it? Just wonderin.
Hey Tracker you and Mike Leonard should get together and write a book. But it would need to be fiction since both of you are full of shit.

[chancemarquette]

all the book would be about is running 14 day old tracks and treeing 130 pound females, and getting glimpses of the red runner how do you guys have time to hunt when you have to dream up such fascinating details to throw into your stories?

i guess what im trying to say is if you guys are as good as you lead on post some pics tell the basics of the hunt and if you are as good as you say people will speak for you i dont think del cameron or any of those guys ever had to speak for themselves or their dogs to get where they were and are still at in the hound hunting world, LEGENDS in the eyes of OTHER houndsmen. and if this gets deleted it would be a disrespect to many famous houndsmen

[AZDOGMAN]

Damn buddy thats 2 in a row that gave you the slip. At least you didnt get shot. Had the same thing happen about 8 years ago, treed a coon in an old mans back yard and he came out waving a pistol.

[arizonabeagle]

whats the deal with folks these days always gotta try and cut a fella down

[liontracker]

Yeh, that's the worst part..two in a row...and back to back days to boot. Plus 20 miles of wore out boot leather. I felt so bad I almost quit hunting!LOL

Looks like I had better clam up on the size of the lions around here, or else I will be getting some new hunting pards.!LOL

Oh yeh...now that feels better...just took a dump with houndgr's name all over it. There now...at least I am not full of shit anymore!LOL

[houndogr]

Oh yeh...now that feels better...just took a dump with houndgr's name all over it. There now...at least I am not full of shit anymore!LOL[/quote]

Hey thats a good one you got me there tracker.

I just find these stories hard to believe. 14 day old lion track, dogs picking scent of the rocks and sticks, opening every 3 to 10 seconds and the 5 day old bobcat track with pups. Then a lion you see your dogs cant trail, then you walk step for step with your hounds on a 4 hr old track. WTF this makes no sense.

[liontracker]

I agree. When following lions, some of the things I encounter don't make sense. But after some days of thought and bouncing it off other lion hunters more knowledgeable than I, it becomes more clear and at least starts to make sense. All of the stories I write are 100% true and correct, otherwise I would not waste my time, as I have better things to do with it. I just share them so that the new guys can maybe learn something from my experiences and keep an open mind, because almost anything can happen out there.

[Big N' Blue]

Liontracker, keep the stories coming! I understand them.

[liontracker]

Well alright then. Let me pull out another, from the other day.