Lion track ? ?

[twist]

Tracks are pretty clear between cat and dog in mud or not much snow. When the snow gets 6 inches and more it can be pretty tough to tell whats what until you walk it out and then it can still be tough thats when its a plus to have a good broke hound. later, Andy

[B-N-Trees]

Nice track. Take notes. Especially if you can't run it yet. That cat will probably cross sometime in that area again later.

Our season will open November 16. It has been snowing here for the last two days and we have got about two feet of good snow. My hounds and I are getting a little restless. The last thing I need to be doing is looking at lion tracks.

[BuckNAze]

We just cut 4 on thursday evening, my buddy was still trying to catch up to them today. All were together, first there was 3 then another one joined in. Looked to be a dandy tom

[BWTB]

4 together with a big tom in the mix sounds strange to me. Is this common? Could they be Lynx tracks?

[Big Mike]

Not common but not unheard of either. Me and some friends cut four adult lion tracks traveling together. Ran them until we got melted out. Got on them the next day and all 4 were still together. Treed them, 3 females ( one old, two looked 1-2 year old) and a nice tom 120lb range. Trailed them about 5 miles in the two days.

[BuckNAze]

Well called my buddy and he was just coming out of the wooods. We started (and by we I mean his good dog and my dogs that havent been on a lion yet, haha) and he and another guy with a good dog caught one of the females in the draw that we started it in. They got lucky after my buddy got unstuck from being stuck most of the day apparently and when they cut that track they had it treed in about 20 minutes he said. They split up but it was pretty crazy seeing 4 lion tracks together. Started out with 3 then we found the tracks in the next draw over and there were 4 coming off the hill.

[The Vise]

walker 83 you are absolutly correct i hope she doesnt get killed because she is the last of a dieing breed up there everyone leave the little kitty to run again.

Well the kitty is safe from my gun no doubt but not from my camera. Gunna try like hell to put one up this winter! So it sounds like that area isnt too great for findin lions then? If they ar getting thin up there then why dont they limit the kill tags? Wish it was a better area since it is the most convenient to me.

[walker83]

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Well the kitty is safe from my gun no doubt but not from my camera. Gunna try like hell to put one up this winter! So it sounds like that area isnt too great for findin lions then? If they ar getting thin up there then why dont they limit the kill tags? Wish it was a better area since it is the most convenient to me.[/quote]


Sportsman for fish and wildlife, Don Peay, pretty much sums up the answer to your question, oh and houndsmen with horrible judgment.

[Anchor Red]

How mutch bigger is a mountain lion track than a cyote or dog track

[Ike]

This image is a track from a mature, top-end, tom lion track. I caught him a few weeks later and walked away from him with a tag in my pocket. One of his lower canines was broken in half, his teeth were yellow and he had one of the largest heads of any lion that I have ever treed. His track in the dirt was over four inches wide and would have looked huge in fresh snow. I've never measured a female lion track but a tom will go from 3 3/4" to 4 1/4", give or take.......

I would like to speak to the bitch killing comments as well. There are always times smaller lions need taken, for public safety or depredation or just because they are living in a place where they are gonna get into trouble. I've watched several of those females hit the ground (for many different reasons) and I would have never been proud to hand my tag on any of them. Hell sakes, I walk away from top end toms every year (and did so not more than a couple weeks ago) and somehow find a reason NOT to take them. I only wish more people would learn to control their blood lust because dead lions don't leave tracks........

ike

[Anchor Red]

I agree 100%