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Man shoots mountain lion in self defense
An Afton hunter killed a mountain lion earlier this month while hunting deer with his father in western Wyoming.
The state Game and Fish Department determined the killing was self defense.
Adam Lancaster told Warden Todd Graham that he killed the mountain lion on Oct. 7 as it approached the hunters while they were field dressing and boning a buck mule deer they had killed.
The encounter occurred in the north end of Wyoming lion hunt Area 14 in the Coal Creek drainage, about four miles south of U.S. 89 on Salt Pass. No one was injured.
They reported the incident immediately. :shock: :shock: :shock:
According to the local newspaper and radio, the father and son had the deer and horns packed. The father (I went to high school with) walked over to the gut pile to make sure they had the knifes, saw and everything else picked up. He looked up and the cat was on the other side of the pile, he yelled at his son, who ran and got his rifle off his horse. The father was slowly backing away from the lion when his spurs got caught in the sagebrush and he fell backward...The cat jumped landing right at his feet, he yelled and his son fired a 30-30 hitting the lion right in the heart.
Man shoots mountain lion in self defense
An Afton hunter killed a mountain lion earlier this month while hunting deer with his father in western Wyoming.
The state Game and Fish Department determined the killing was self defense.
Adam Lancaster told Warden Todd Graham that he killed the mountain lion on Oct. 7 as it approached the hunters while they were field dressing and boning a buck mule deer they had killed.
The encounter occurred in the north end of Wyoming lion hunt Area 14 in the Coal Creek drainage, about four miles south of U.S. 89 on Salt Pass. No one was injured.
They reported the incident immediately. :shock: :shock: :shock:
According to the local newspaper and radio, the father and son had the deer and horns packed. The father (I went to high school with) walked over to the gut pile to make sure they had the knifes, saw and everything else picked up. He looked up and the cat was on the other side of the pile, he yelled at his son, who ran and got his rifle off his horse. The father was slowly backing away from the lion when his spurs got caught in the sagebrush and he fell backward...The cat jumped landing right at his feet, he yelled and his son fired a 30-30 hitting the lion right in the heart.