Winter Mountain Lion, pic
 

Guide sent this pic in this morning. They are out there having a ball chasin cat across the mountains. We are going to offer lion hunts in 2014-2015 season, so he is out working the hounds, scouting and having fun. Practice season before we start taking paying clients next year. A man can nearly hunt year round out west! I do love Montana.

Very cool picture!

Very cool. :cool2:

Real nice picture and I certainly hope he has some great luck once they start hunting them..

Just need to send that out to prospective clients !

LOL !!!

Go get'em !

Thanks for sharing.

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NICE job Dick! I have to get back up there to see you and Dean buddy.

That IS a big cat!!!

the cat is definitely annoyed by the dogs lol...thanks for sharing!

Love it, man there are so many things I wanna hunt in the US

can you eat a mountain lion?

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I've read books in which old time mountain men are quoted as saying that cougar was some of the best meat in the Rockies.

Never ate any myself.

That kitty would like to get the dog 1 on 1! Admire the cats and good hunt'in dogs, but you can't hunt 'em here in California. The wildlife is all out of kelter here in the state of fruits and flakes. May Montana have a healthy balance of predator and prey, figure mankind as part of the predator count, and many great hunts to ya'll.

Hey, do those dogs get after Bobcat if they run across one? Never heard of hunting Bob's with dogs.

So what are the legalities around taking the meat of a lion?

just very interested is all

As long as it's a legal kill you can eat the whole thing, claws and all if that's your bag.

Up here it is how a lot of bobcats are hunted.. Bobcats traveling threw the woods is hard to find. Although a few hunters will get 1 or 2 crossing the road most are shot with hounds. They also do some guided hunts with hounds for bobcats as well.

I would frame that photo! As good as it gets.

In my native CO, they hunt a lot of cougar. Since it is classified as a game animal if you take one you are required by law to utilize the meat. I've had it a few times and it is good. Sort of a light colored meat with a real delicate flavor. Both times I had it, it was cooked in a slow cooker with spuds, onions and carrots. Haven't tried it fried or grilled so I can't tell you how that would be.

I'm betting if you chunked the tail into small pieces and prepared it like oxtail that would be good too. I've never shot one personally but it is on my bucket list.

An old cat hunter gave me a tip about eating cougar. He said to leave the cat treed for a while to let it sort of calm down after the chase. Then vaporize it's head with a rifle shot to kill it instantly. He claimed the meat tasted better after doing it that way as opposed to the old method of shooting a treed cat in the lungs with a 22 mag and letting it fill up with blood and falling out of the tree a few minutes later.
I can't vouch for any of that info personally. I won't eat cat.