9.3x57
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Last week I cut lion track on the place, and followed it for a while, then gave up and headed back to check snares and do chores at home.
I told my son and last nite he decided, "Pops, I'm going to go up on the mountain and kill that lion you trailed".
I said, "Son, you just go ahead and do that..." {{{ Yeah, right.  }}}
Running, 70 yards, after a long hike the rascal did it!!!
Pushing snow the whole way, his new corks were wearing a hole in his heal and he thought about turning around and heading home, but he decided to keep going. Rounded the top of Wilson a thousand feet higher than home, came around, crossed the fenceline on to our ranch, saw some crows and thought there must be a kill nearby. Then he saw it running hard. He swung the old FN .270 on it and killed it as it leapt for the south canyon.
I'm proud as punch.
Like many who live in the woods, he's never even seen a lion except this one!
52 deer this year he saved.
Did I say I'm proud of him? 
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Well done and you have good reason to be proud of him, who wouldn't be proud of a son who achieved such a feat with sore feet to boot. Well done young 9.3x57 and you will have a good rug next to the bed now.
Cheers,
Jeff Gray
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Well done ! That is cool (no pun meant by that) I know how hard a long walk in snow shoes can be !
Thank you for sharing
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Pat that boy on the back for me!
My cougar tag is still fully intact, ready to go in my wallet.
I've been a few hours to a few days late -- a few times around here this year.
I'll keep it up though!!
Cheers
Tinker
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and the hard way
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Great work.
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Paul
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9.3, that is a great story and you are right to be proud. The trouble with hunting big cats generally seems to be that they are virtually impossible to hunt without bait or hounds, yet sometimes too easy when these means are used.
Your son has not only killed the beast without hounds or bait but running as well - it really is boy's-own adventure stuff.
- Paul
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Your son has not only killed the beast without hounds or bait but running as well - it really is boy's-own adventure stuff.
- Paul
This whole thing has me head spinning.
I've SEEN lion in the woods before. No shots. He's seen exactly...ONE!
That I cut the track of this thing a week ago and told him about it and then for him to tell me for the whole week and the night before, "I'm gonna kill that lion", and then do it? Hilarious!
Along with Thanks and Grace there was a sip of Bushmills for all around the table last night!
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Very cool! That's a hide worth tanning for posterity!
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Santa should be extra nice to that lad this year.
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Great story with a great ending!
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9.3x57
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I should add that he shoots on the college trap club and that cat started with a straightaway from the 20-yard line only switching directions out at 70 yards. He's killed running coyotes with that old FN .270 so it goes without saying that Puttytat made a bad mistake in judgment...
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it goes without saying that Puttytat made a bad mistake in judgment...
Sure did, but one mistake is all that it takes.....
Again well done to your Son.
Cheers,
Jeff Gray
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update;
My son just called me and he went back up to back track that cat a ways. He also brought his rangefinder with him. He ranged the shot and it was at 130 yards. He guessed 70 as I posted above. I guess he ain't no judge of distance!
Merry Christmas to the deer of Elkview Ranch. They’ll never get a better Christmas present.
And it gets funnier.
Funny, because their “Santa’s” first name is my mother’s maiden name, Dillon, an old Irish surname that came down from the Norman de Leon; the Lion.
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As a true University of Utah Ute, I'm always happy when one kills a cougar - congrats!
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Ben
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Well-done!
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9.3x57
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By the way, the .270 load was a Hornady 100 grain Spire Point running at 3550 fps. Through and through.
My daughter shot a deer with the Hornady 100 grain Spire Point in 6.5/.264 diameter in the 6.5x55 and it also went clear through.
I really did not expect that from either of them, even on a 100 pound doe or an 80 pound lion.
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My congratulations to your son, he shows on the photo's a good attitude! not that it would make him a man but really he is already one he has mastered the hunt.
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THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY...WOW!!!
As you have stated..other than the one I shot--I have seen ONE other in my lifetime ..always cut their tracks..but never see them...
Great Job...
Christmas come early...
Ripp
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9.3x57
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Thanks, RIPP:
Ate some of that cat last night.
Looks and tastes like pork.
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Such a GREAT ending to a good story, Rod. Folowing old tracks until they turn into an animal is an exhilerating experience - I'm proud of Dillon too. GREAT SHOT!
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Tell the kid, Congratulations, good job!!
I have seen lions in the wild three times. Every time it was so quick, that afterwards I thought, "did I just see a lion?"
Some of my best memories of my kids are hunting memories...and even though both of them are in their 40's they are still my kids...we could have a whole topic just on that....
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Some of my best memories of my kids are hunting memories...and even though both of them are in their 40's they are still my kids...we could have a whole topic just on that....
And THAT is why so many of us love this game---memories with those we care about...IMHO...
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congratulations with the kid, damn that is a big cat, rightfully you can be proud of him, how much does a cat like that weigh ?
merry christmas
peter
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9.3x57
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Peter, thanks.
My son's was an average-sized female. It weighed 80 lbs/31.5 kgs. Another shot with hounds by a fellow we know here not far from my house the other day was a huge male and it weighed, brace yourself... 168 lbs/66 kgs!! HUGE!
Around here for full grown females they go about 70 to 110 pounds and males 80 to 175 pounds.
Glædelig jul og god nytår!!
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