antlerrick
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While my son was out scouting on a LE elk unit for a hunter last week, he was trying to coax a bugling bull out of some cover to get a look at him with cow and calve calls. The bull worked to within 100 yards and then became quiet. My son kept softly calling and about 10 minutes later a mountain lion came around a tree directly toward him at about 15 yards. He was camo'd and wearing scent-loc, and the lion didn't seem to notice him. As the lion continued toward him, he got up and moved around to the opposite side of a large ponderosa that he was sitting against. The lion kept coming and came right to where he had been sitting and where his bino covers were laying. My son was just on the other side of the tree, 3 to 4 feet away. Somehow he had the nerve to turn on his video camera and capture some shaky but incredible footage of the lion as it checked out where he had been sitting. It began to go around to his left, so he moved to his right, and then the cat turned back and they were face to face, with the tree still paritally between them. As he was videoing he was trying to pick up rocks to throw at the cat. He finally hit the cat and it ran back about 15 feet and turned and snarled at him, then ran down another 20 feet or so. He threw another rock and it went over the cat's head, and the lion turned and looked down toward where the rock had landed, still ignorant to the fact that a human was there. My boy took off his face mask, and threw another rock, and then the cat noticed him and immediately fled down the hill.
He had no weapon as he was just scouting, but done the right thing in not running, as I think that would have provoked the cat to attack.
So just a word of caution as you are out calling, remember, you could end up being the hunted, rather than the hunter!!
Here is a photo we pulled off of his video!! His bino cover is laying in the right front corner of the picture..
A bad day hunting is better than a Good Day at Work!!
He had no weapon as he was just scouting, but done the right thing in not running, as I think that would have provoked the cat to attack.
So just a word of caution as you are out calling, remember, you could end up being the hunted, rather than the hunter!!
Here is a photo we pulled off of his video!! His bino cover is laying in the right front corner of the picture..
A bad day hunting is better than a Good Day at Work!!