A Couple Of Lion Kills

BCBOY · Apr 4, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Apr-04-11 AT 10:20PM (MST)[p]Had a big tom run across the road on the way to work one day this winter. I jumped out and ran after him, baying like a hound. Almost treed him too. He hesitated and tried to climb a big fir but changed his mind and bailed. The next morning I took the day off of work and brought the hound out. The tom had made a move that night and I was in the process of freshin' up the track when we kicked up 6 wolves from their beds. Was a good thing I had the hound still on lead or else they probably would have killed him. With wolf tracks all over the place, it was hopeless trying to piece together the lion's track. I could hear a bunch of ravens, so the shed hunter in me decided that I could run the lion another day and I needed to find what was dead. Here is what I found. The wolves stole the bull from the lion that night.

Working in the area most of the winter, I was hoping the tom would make a move again. Seemed everytime I cut his track, the wolves were right there too. I'm not too keen on getting my dog killed, so I never turned out. Last weekend I went out sheddin' in the area and was able to find this muley deadhead not too far from where the bull was. Found him just under a band of cliffs that I had seen the cougar tracks come off of a couple of times.

Here are a couple pics of the wolves that were covering the area pretty darn good. I didn't take these pics, another local did. I wish they would have stayed still like that for me. Packed my rifle to work all winter but just couldn't get a crack at them.

shedhead · Apr 4, 2011

those dead heads are sick. that muley is huge great pics man.

hornkiller · Apr 5, 2011

That sucks to loose such great animals to those worthless critters. Great pics BC!
Did you keep the heads?

Muley4x4 · Apr 5, 2011

thanks for sharing nice finds on the dead head. Glad you didn't turn the dog loose either those are some big wolves!

DRHORNHUNTER · Apr 5, 2011

Thanks for sharing those pics. They are incredible. Too bad ya never gotta catch that tom. I'll bet he's a Booner. A few doctored meat balls in that elk carcass should of fed those poor starving wolves

Pooner · Apr 5, 2011

Nice finds, love the muleys. Also I love the story about trying to tree the cat, I have always wanted to do that to a lion, did it once to a coon though couldn't beleive it worked.

swbuckmaster · Apr 5, 2011

awesome story

tinehunter · Apr 5, 2011

B.C. will you put up somemore pics of that buck, he looks great.
Tinehunter

BCBOY · Apr 5, 2011

Tinehunter,
Here are a couple more pics of the deadhead muley. A couple tines have been chewed off and not the usual rodent chews either. Probably one of the wolves chewed on it. His G2's are weak but he makes up for it in mass and character.