LION SEASON IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO CLOSED

[chilcotin hillbilly]

How much is a guided lion hunt?

There are guys selling hunts for $3000 on the low end and $8000 on the highend.Those $8000 hunts you should expect a near 100% success on big toms, 160 pounds or bigger.

[liontracker]

Who is getting $8000 and do they have a website?

[pegleg]

whats the glens advertised price ? last i heard it was in that neighborhood.

[liontracker]

I'm just curious as to what a guy gets for that kind of cash.

[pegleg]

two versions ten days of hunting with hounds and room n board with a continuation if no game. trophy assured. the other variant is you set by the phone ready to fly in within 8-12 hours. prepared to hunt immediately, still guaranteed game. good contact from safari club international. this info may or may not be 100% . there was a write up in the tucson papers a while back that had some info.

[Big Mike]

In NM average price is around $3000. Last I heard the Glenns were geting in the 5-6K range but i dont know if that is correct.

If a land owner has a depredation problem with a lion like killing livestock or any animal pets or whatever. Game and fish can issue a kill permit to remove that lion in an area where the quota is full. That is the only way a lion can be killed legally in a closed zone.

[Mike Leonard]

There is a lot more to a lion hunting expereince than just boucing around in a dirty pick up truck with a bunch of old boys breaking wind and eating more pickled sausages.Then dumping out on a 20 minute old cat track and cashing the check.

$3000. for that is higway robbery!

To ride a fine mule thru some beautiful desert country while watching a pack of 15 highly trained dry ground lion dogs none of which even wear a tracking collar scouring the area. To enjoy a lovely campfire meal in a historic southwest remote ranch house while a living legend strums his guitar and sings cowboys songs and his movie star daughter who is also an excellent dry ground hunter fixes dutch oven biscuits. And then enjoying a good nights sleep in the peace and quiet of the Sonoran Desert, to rise to a hearty ranch breakfast and climb into the saddle again . Will make that 5-6 K check pretty easy to write when you ride back in with a tom lion draped over the front of your saddle and know that if you never go lion hunting again you have truely enjoyed on of the last true wild hunts in the US, and you have truely been lion hunting my friend.

[Catman]

Gosh Mike I'm ready...do you have a lovely wife or daughter that can dutch oven cook?

[Mike Leonard]

Sure do Dick but not as good as me. LOL!

[liontracker]

Mike, that is exactly what I was getting at. What kind of experience?
The dutch oven version is the one.
Not rig and run...

[pegleg]

There's a little more to be said I feel in the experience if YOU raised and trained those hounds and the horse your riding. I realize not everyone is capable of this for numerous reasons. pride maybe a sin, however I look at pride in my hounds the same way as pride in my family. My kids may not be the best behaved or the fastest or whatever. They ARE mine however and that means more to me then the rest combined. I know what went into raising them and how I have tried to teach them the many things they should know. I spent those long nights sitting up with them when they where ill. I help them with their homework and lug them to their games etc. My point is the connection is there, built by love, labor,tears and joy. I can recognize good qualities in some one's children and summarize what it took to get there, but the meaning isn't the same and the bond is absent. It's the same with hounds if you put the time and sweat into them your reward is more when they succeed. Now you could say, I worked hard for that money and that reward was earned just the same. I can't see it that way. Paying someone else to raise your kids Isn't raising a Family either. If you buy the experience it isn't the same experience period,$3,000 or $20,000. Hunting with hounds is a total experience for me and probably many others. your saddle maybe similar to mine but if I made mine myself it has more value to me then yours does to you. or if I had a choice between a two hundred lb lion caught with someone else's hounds and hard work or catching a wise hard running bobcat with my own. I'd be out pounding along behind my dogs enjoying every minute! Even if there weren't any stars or a ol' time cowboy sound track to go along .My hounds sing pretty well themselves.