Yep, looks like a Texas lion. Not to make little of what is an AWESOME kill, but it's awfully small. Then again, most of the animals I've shot in TX have had small bodies (the bucks had big racks, don't get me wrong, but they were roughly the same weight as my Great Dane). The lions I've seen in Montana were MUCH larger cats than that one. As I said, I ain't trying to here... I'm just curious why animals in general are smaller in body down there (with the exception of the jackrabbits, which could easily mate with the deer). That particular cat has a pretty decent body, but it's skull is pretty small.

All questions aside, ANY time you shoot a large predator like that you have EVERY right to brag!!!!! Speaking of mountain lions... We've got a few up here in Minnesota! They're some living up near St. Cloud and quite a few down in the Minnesota River Valley. Never seen one in person, but we've heard them, saw their tracks, and had one who ate most of the hindquarter off of my step-dad's deer overnight!!!!!