A big Lion set free

[Brent Sinclair]

We first captured this tom March 2010 and he weighed 176 lbs.
His collar quit working Sept. 30 /2011 and we figured he had possiable been killed as his home range was very consistant...and we never found his track again .
A couple of days ago we found a HUGE track and thought we had a new lion to collar.
Today we treed the big tom again and to our surprise he was bigger than when we first caught him...with 4 ft. of snow it was impossiable to lift him with the scale and net...
two of us barley moved him once he was out of the tree...
We removed the collar and found a canie tooth had punctured the battery likely causing the failure...
He's back in the hills tonight hopefully passing on his genetics, he's one of the biggest lions I have ever treed.
We guessed his weight at 185lbs + 7'10" nose to tail

[culverz]

thats a monster of a cat. just curious as to how large of a home range that big guy has. good looking dogs. take care


Zach

[nait hadya]

very large

[Brent Sinclair]

We were surprised at just how small it was when we first captured him, the tech's could go out and almost any given time they could find him with the reciever till his collar quit.
The data showed from March 2010 till Sept. 2010 he lived within 149 sq. miles...
But, in mountanious terrain that's a good peice of counrty!!! till you hear about the big toms that travel from The Black Hills in SD to Saskatchewan, Canada!!!!!

[shoot4fur]

ok, so on average what would you say the range of a mature tom is from what your reciever has shown? And what would the average be when he would show up in the same location. Or do they just seem to move around with no pattern?

[nait hadya]

found bigfoot did ya?

[jube baker]

Thats a nice tom..

[Catman]

Thanks for sharing that with us Brent. Dandy for sure

[Plotts]

Nice Tom

[007pennpal]

Brent,
What about the females. Do you collar them and how do they range?
Sean

[Plotts]

Of the females that were collared they all were locals and fit into some type of overlapping patterns with other females. They would range at most from point A to
point B less than 10 miles as the crow flys.

[BAYDOGG]

Brent you didnt say but what age would you estemate on that cat ??? Thanks for getting this thread started cause it's providing some great information. Keep it going boys !

[Big Mike]

Truely a monster tom. I would interested to hear how often he revisited places or if he did at all.

Thanks and keep posting, very good info

[Brent Sinclair]

Truely a monster tom. I would interested to hear how often he revisited places or if he did at all.

Thanks and keep posting, very good info

Big Mike
The real interesting thing about this tom was how far from his previous "home range " he was.
I was quite surprised to see he had moved that far....it looks like he was quite consistant in his pattern until his collar quite...I'd like to find the tom that kicked him out!!!!!!!
Good Huntin

[Brent Sinclair]

Brent you didnt say but what age would you estemate on that cat ??? Thanks for getting this thread started cause it's providing some great information. Keep it going boys !

That question has always been one that I have found difficult to answer.
It seems there is such a variation in lions teeth with several things that could have an effect on them.
Food source, genetics and temperature all play a very major factor in this.
Like humans, a diet of good healthy food and good genetics most of the time should lend to good teeth.
Look at an elk in sandy soil country to one in the ranch land , tooth wear is like night and day.

I am GUESSING this lion between 5-7 yrs