Region h wy lions?

[flatlander51]

Hoping to draw a wy region h deer tag this year. If so I'm concidering buying the OTC lion tag. Anyone familiar with the area think its worth the investment?

 

[jrice]

Even in great lion country the odds of you seeing one are super, super remote. With that said here's a lion in Region H that I could have easily shot if I had had a tag in my pocket a few years ago. Unless you have plenty of $ I wouldn't buy the tag.

 

[flatlander51]

That's an awesome pic. Thanks for sharing.

 

[jrice]

Thanks. That was before digiscopes and that was the best picture of a bunch I shot through my spotting scope. I watched him for at least 10 minutes, and wished I'd had a video camera, as he actually crouched down and played with a rock on a steep slope like a big house cat, batting it with a paw, and then pouncing on it when it started rolling down the slope, he did that twice. He then slipped into some timber and terrorized some squirrels. I've only seen one other lion, just a glimpse deep in the Middle Fork of the Salmon country on a sheep hunt, but I see tracks every winter, and had one follow me for a quarter mile or so one night hiking out after a late season deer hunt.

Where do you live in MD? I lived there for a few years, way too many 2-leggeds for me.

 

[jrice]

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