Well I got a mountain lion.
I shot a spike elk and while breaking the elk down, I kept looking around. I could tell something was out there. I assumed more elk. It took me 3 hours to get back to the kill site, with my bigger pack to start packing quarters out. When I approached the kill site I jumped something off of the carcass, I thought coyote, until I got to the carcass and saw it was buried under a bunch of logs, sticks and dirt. The guts where sticking out of the cache. I then got the 4 quarters of the spike out in 2 loads. I was solo.
A week later, I am in the same spot and decided to sneak down to the cached spike and see if I could find what had cached the carcass. It is a steep drop off down to this bench. The cache was on the bench. I found the cache in my binouculars and this young male mountain lion was laying right next to the cache. I put my scope up on the lion and the lion was looking right at me. This was about 60-75 yards. I put the rifle down and cranked the scope up to 12, put the cross hairs right below the head on the neck and pull the trigger. The cat just rolled over. I just got a cat in his bed. Yes he knew I was there, but he was laying down. Probably all fat and lazy from eating on the carcass. So I walked out, relocated my bike and truck and went back in with a big pack and got him out. He is now at the taxidermist.
these 2 pics are taken where I was standing when I shot the lion. one zoomed in, the other is not.
the other pic is the spike carcass when I returned originally.
I shot a spike elk and while breaking the elk down, I kept looking around. I could tell something was out there. I assumed more elk. It took me 3 hours to get back to the kill site, with my bigger pack to start packing quarters out. When I approached the kill site I jumped something off of the carcass, I thought coyote, until I got to the carcass and saw it was buried under a bunch of logs, sticks and dirt. The guts where sticking out of the cache. I then got the 4 quarters of the spike out in 2 loads. I was solo.
A week later, I am in the same spot and decided to sneak down to the cached spike and see if I could find what had cached the carcass. It is a steep drop off down to this bench. The cache was on the bench. I found the cache in my binouculars and this young male mountain lion was laying right next to the cache. I put my scope up on the lion and the lion was looking right at me. This was about 60-75 yards. I put the rifle down and cranked the scope up to 12, put the cross hairs right below the head on the neck and pull the trigger. The cat just rolled over. I just got a cat in his bed. Yes he knew I was there, but he was laying down. Probably all fat and lazy from eating on the carcass. So I walked out, relocated my bike and truck and went back in with a big pack and got him out. He is now at the taxidermist.
these 2 pics are taken where I was standing when I shot the lion. one zoomed in, the other is not.
the other pic is the spike carcass when I returned originally.
