Aggressive lion encounter

[khart_6882]

Reading the comments has me curious. Did you weight it? Not judging, just curious.

I didn’t…and the picture I posted makes the cat look a lot thinner than it was because her belly was rolled up under her. I wasn’t trying to brag up how big she was by saying 120lbs, that was the taxidermists estimate. He might’ve just been trying to make me feel good haha


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[steveandy88]

You're going to drop your rifle, so you can go all john wayne with a shotgun pistol?

Would be dropping my bow to go all John Wayne with my shotgun pistol.

 

[TheGDog]

Crazy encounter, was she nursing? Curious if maybe she cubs stashed away and that’s why she was confrontational.

That's what I was thinking it was too. Defending the kittens. Been lotta vids popping up on the internet showing how ornery they can be when that's the case.

 

[Huckleberry Hound]

Never been charged by one but ive had a couple incidents that were sketchy. One time got pics of a cat following my tracks right into my back yard. A day later, found fresh cat traks coming right up to my back porch. Day or two later, cleaning my house, i was either sweeping or mopping my living room floor, whichever it was, i look out the window and that sucker was crouched down staring at me intently through the living room window.
Another incident, i was out running the weedeater. Never carried a gun doing that, why should i? And after i burned through a couple tanks of gas, making all kinds of noise, i take a break. Sat on the big rock by my fire pit and light a cigar, start finger blasting my phone. Look up and there <15 yards away, a lion is crouched in the brush on the edge of my lawn, staring at me. And im unarmed. I stood up and it slinked off, in no big hurry.
Yeah theyre not generally after people, if they were then european colonists would have found a continent devoid of human life, but you never know. Anybody who says they have no potential to be a danger is clueless.
Sure, 99% of them want to avoid people, 99% of the time, but theres always exceptions. A 100lb animal that can kill a full grown elk is nothing to take lightly.

 

[ElkArcher918]

Wow, what an encounter. Glad it turned out well. Lions are common were I live in CO but I have yet run into one. When I bowhunt elk, I always carry my pistol just in case.

 

[TheGDog]

The thing that creeps me out about the cats is that... most of the time... ya don't freakin hear em at all, til they're waaay to freakin' close!

 

[7mm-08]

That'll get your heart started. Glad everyone (the humans) survived that encounter without bloodshed. Love your wife's comment about the rock - she's a tough woman.