Deer and Lions

[For The Love of It]

My father has a rifle deer tag for Central NV and I have been out scouting a half dozen times now. Yesterday I went to an area that doesn't hold that many deer but the chances of finding a monster are better then other areas. I ended up in new country and to my amazement I saw two lions. Seeings how I had a gun and a tag (open year around) I took a shot at one but missed. So my question to you is how many lions have you ever seen while out in the field. Not counting the ones with dogs behind them. To date I'm 20 years old and have seen 8. By the way no big bucks were spotted but her is a picture of the buck I killed out of this area in 2005. What do you think this buck scores and how wide is he?

[MuleyMadness]

Sweet buck. Never seen a lion in the field myself, pretty crazy considering the amount of time I've spent out and about.

I'll guess 28-29" on your buck. Thanks for sharing!

[sneekeepete]

Great looking buck you got there!!! You have sure seen a lot of Cats. Before I joined the Marine Corps I used to spend over 3 months straight on the mountain and I have only seen two that didn't have hounds after them.

[silvertip-co]

dang nice buck, would work for us

[sharpstick]

Nice buck. I've seen three cats while out and about in the mountains. One was chasing the biggest buck on the mountain opening morning of the archery hunt. The cat was a huge tom and was really pissed when he didn't catch the buck. After the chase the cat set on his haunches and switched his tail back and forth like a house cat does when he's mad. Another time I was setting up game cameras and came around a corner of the trail and there he / she was drinking out our a stream. Never did spot me but I sure wasn't about to get his attention. They are big animals and sooo quiet.

[NotEnufTags]

I've seen two cat in the mountains and two in town. The first ran right out in front of the toyota land cruiser I was in up diamond fork canyon. There were about six inches of fresh snow. The cat was amazing to watch. After crossing it decided it wanted to go back across the road. It ran along side the cruiser for about a hundred yards. It wanted to go back across in front of the vehicle. The second one I saw was on the Heaston CWMU unit. We saw about fifty dead elk carcases up a small draw. As we rounded a bend at the top of the draw there was a cat sitting just outside her den.

The other two were in the town of eagle mountian.

Great Buck "For the love of it"

I'm not very good at the field judging thing but I'm going to throw out a guess of 190+ gross and 29" wide

[JBird]

I've seen one cat. I would say your buck is a low 180's type 28" wide.

[CodeRED]

Ive seen one Lion in the field near Monte Cristo. Never saw one after that and it was a long time ago (15+ years). That is sure a nice buck you have in the pic there too!

[one hunting fool]

I myself have came across 3 lions in one day in butterfiled canyon and in 2001 i saw a lion kill a doe not a mile up the ridge i was on. then i watched as the lion fed the snow turned red for a foot around the body. something i will never forget. i wish i had a camera with a telescopic lens i would have had some great pictures

[CodeRED]

Man, I was up Butterfield Canyon yesterday. Wish I could have caught a glimpse of one up there.