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My life long hunting partner took the long 14 hour drive to come up for his first lion hunt. In all these years he has never been hound hunting but with a bit of time this week and me with out a paying hunter the timing was right. The first day out we cut a good tom track. We put a Rudy,Burger down on the track and he led his Karilean dog on a leash. They took the track 4 miles over ice,frozen hard snow and some deep stuff as well. We left the track for the next day as it was getting late. The next morning I threw in my walker pup to join in as she has yet to see a lion hit the ground. We cut the tom track a couple miles farther along the river and put the dogs down, not a peep out of the dogs, a little strange. in 5 minutes all hell broke loose and the lion was treed. A real nice tom 185 pounds and a green skull of 15 4/16. My buddy could not be happier. The cat treed low and was really pissed so we got a show, getting the hounds off the tree made him a little nervous as he was sure the cat was going to eat me. Anyhow a great day spent with a good friend and a nice tom to boot.

Wow, man thats awesome!

That's a real one!

Good job and congratulation to your buddy, I bet that long drive was well worth it.

That looks like a real pig chilcotin hillbilly, congrats to you and your buddy as well. Great photos, and how would it be to have the resource that you have up there???

ike

Nice lion and a good story! Whats that hairy tailed hound... a border collie?

Very nice cat!

B-N-Trees wrote:Nice lion and a good story! Whats that hairy tailed hound... a border collie?

That hairy tail thing is my buddies Karelian who was walked in on a leash and let go after the jump. It treed hard for about2 minutes then went on a walk about to find something interesting.

Doug,

Is that small spotted dog in front of the black dogs part beagle?

I know some guys in Arizona that run a few that look like that and the do pretty well on lion with them.

Doug,

Congrats on the nice cougar and best of luck.


Thanks

Junk

Nice pics thats one hell of a tom congrats to you and your buddy

Mike Leonard wrote:Doug,

Is that small spotted dog in front of the black dogs part beagle?

I know some guys in Arizona that run a few that look like that and the do pretty well on lion with them.

Mike, she is a grade walker with a little bluetick way back, just enough to leave a few blue ticks. At 7 months I am happy with her progress, not a world beater but staying with the big dogs and pulling a little hair.