Treed lion pics

Ill start it off with this one from a few years ago

Very cool pic!

this was a big cat I dont know what he weighed as he wasnt harvested.

Very nice pictures. Have never run them or trapped them.

very cool...i hope to get one in a couple years

sethc

so are you guys still able to run them with hounds

I sold all but my female last year. I made her my house dog. I had to semi retire from hounding due to health issues. I have a bunch of freinds that still run dogs hard all winter. They run bears if they draw idaho hound handlers and hunt coon all summer. I found i couldnt trap and run my hounds at the same time. If you made sets along where you thought you would be hunting you would end up 200 miles away running lions and couldnt check traps so i just gave up trapping. Im getting back into trapping the last few years as its way less physical then trying to follow dogs or at least the way i do it. I have a ton of pictures i thought id share a few at a time. dgarrett

great pics... i've never killed a big cat but i've seen alot in trees. we can't use dogs in oregon anymore so my chances of getting one are going to cost me a sugnificant amount of money now.

It wouldnt cost ya alot if you have your own dogs put in for one of the Montana draw tags or idaho hound handlers . Then just go and play. dgarrett

i don't have have my own hounds.... so i would be dependant on someone who has good dogs, a good territory, guides lic. and drawing a permit if nessacary.

Gotta LUV the big cats.... specially the DEAD ones..

Like any large predator they have to be managed. And just like any management program run by the f and g its always a major failure. I prefer just enough population that a guy can go out and find a track within a 100 miles not the 350 miles it takes during low population numbers. dgarrett

dgarrett, I'm with you. Our problem is the houndsman down here are run by a guy that thinks we need more cats than wolves. We've only killed 6 in all the Bitterroot this year. The system is screwed up, but I think we've got things headed in the right direction. Look for around 20 with some females to fall next year. We're really hurting from predation.

heres a BC tom that was a regular rodeo to get lotsa stapled up dogs.

That looks like a bruiser to me, but what does an Ohio boy know, lol!

Do you get them heavier than that?