Here's a Monday morning story from this weekend.
Two buddies and I decided to do a little calling this past weekend on some new property. From what the land owners have been telling me, a few calves have came up missing over the past few weeks. Of course I thought coyotes, and so did they..
We started the first stand at around 11pm. Nothing but grey fox! I mean 5-6 at a time! It was a blast, but no coyotes. Shoot, haven't even heard any howls or anything which I thought was odd.
Second stand same thing, fox fox and more fox. We went to the third stand and finally drew a blank. Figured we have shot enough on that side of the property we needed to go to the other side.
Fourth stand was in a cow pasture. I bet there was 20 baby calves on the ground here. By the time we got parked and set up, the wind changed directions. I jumped back in the truck and turned it around to get set up better for down wind. At this time it was about 1AM.
Turned the call on rabbit destress, real low, and a slow destress sound to warm up the stand. About a minute went by and I decided to shine upwind just to see.
EYES! about 200 yards out, running the outside pasture line. But it was a weird run, more like a trot. Calf like IMO, but too fast. Something wasn't adding up. We run red lights so the eyes come out great but cant see much body until they are closer. I nudged my buddy to shine his as well so I could get a better picture of what it was.
LION! HUGE!!! But he bolted into a low spot just right on the edge of the pasture. Buddy and I looked at each other like we seen a ghost! We had a lion come into the call then disappear..
We sat on this stand for almost an hour, waiting for another chance. Finally we seen eyes in a tree in the direction the cat was going. But it looked more coon like in the scope. Once again, couldn't get a outline of the body, just seen eyes.
I had the slack out of my trigger when my buddy told me, its a coon... Don't shoot, we have a cat in the area you'll scare it off with the shot. I agreed and lifted...
Finally we called it quits, but I wanted to walk over to the last time I seen the cat to see if I could get a track for a picture. I took my 9mm and a white flashlight, mainly just for snakes.. I got up to the area it was seen last and just had a weird feeling. My hair on the back of my neck was standing up, and I just so happened to shine the tree that the "coon" was seen in.
LION! He was watching me from about 80 yards away. I seen his whole outline of his body, tail, everything. I froze like someone had a gun to my head. Soon as my light hit him, he jumped out and hauled through the brush!
I still cant believe it, but we are going to try this weekend again with some new calls. I know they have a huge radius but knowing there is a cat there, I cant not go try for it haha.
Hope yall enjoy the story, chime in with yalls experiences.
Two buddies and I decided to do a little calling this past weekend on some new property. From what the land owners have been telling me, a few calves have came up missing over the past few weeks. Of course I thought coyotes, and so did they..
We started the first stand at around 11pm. Nothing but grey fox! I mean 5-6 at a time! It was a blast, but no coyotes. Shoot, haven't even heard any howls or anything which I thought was odd.
Second stand same thing, fox fox and more fox. We went to the third stand and finally drew a blank. Figured we have shot enough on that side of the property we needed to go to the other side.
Fourth stand was in a cow pasture. I bet there was 20 baby calves on the ground here. By the time we got parked and set up, the wind changed directions. I jumped back in the truck and turned it around to get set up better for down wind. At this time it was about 1AM.
Turned the call on rabbit destress, real low, and a slow destress sound to warm up the stand. About a minute went by and I decided to shine upwind just to see.
EYES! about 200 yards out, running the outside pasture line. But it was a weird run, more like a trot. Calf like IMO, but too fast. Something wasn't adding up. We run red lights so the eyes come out great but cant see much body until they are closer. I nudged my buddy to shine his as well so I could get a better picture of what it was.
LION! HUGE!!! But he bolted into a low spot just right on the edge of the pasture. Buddy and I looked at each other like we seen a ghost! We had a lion come into the call then disappear..
We sat on this stand for almost an hour, waiting for another chance. Finally we seen eyes in a tree in the direction the cat was going. But it looked more coon like in the scope. Once again, couldn't get a outline of the body, just seen eyes.
I had the slack out of my trigger when my buddy told me, its a coon... Don't shoot, we have a cat in the area you'll scare it off with the shot. I agreed and lifted...
Finally we called it quits, but I wanted to walk over to the last time I seen the cat to see if I could get a track for a picture. I took my 9mm and a white flashlight, mainly just for snakes.. I got up to the area it was seen last and just had a weird feeling. My hair on the back of my neck was standing up, and I just so happened to shine the tree that the "coon" was seen in.
LION! He was watching me from about 80 yards away. I seen his whole outline of his body, tail, everything. I froze like someone had a gun to my head. Soon as my light hit him, he jumped out and hauled through the brush!
I still cant believe it, but we are going to try this weekend again with some new calls. I know they have a huge radius but knowing there is a cat there, I cant not go try for it haha.
Hope yall enjoy the story, chime in with yalls experiences.
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