Well after years of debating i finally bit the bullet and booked my colorado mountain lion hunt, i went with mark davies out of loma colorado who i have been talking to for about 7 years. My father and i got setup when we arrived and got ready for our first day of hunting.
Day one: We get up at 1:30 have breakfast and head out for the 2 hour drive to get to a place that had any type of snow to try and cut tracks, we drove utvs over many mountains and finally found a day old track high up a mointain but late in the day, so we packed up and would put dogs on that track on day two.
Day two: We get up at 3:30 have breakfast and head out, we work our way up to where we saw the tracks the day before but on our way up we notice that same cat had worked his way around that nite so we had even newer tracks to work with, so as it got to daylight we let the dogs out and away they go straight down a canyon and over the next mountain and down into the next canyon and boom treed. We found a roadway on the onx that went up that canyon a bit so we drove down and got over there and got to 576 yards of where the dogs were treed at. We got to about 75 yards and noticed the tree the cat was in was a fallen tree leaning up against a standing tree and the dogs kept going up it and the cat was just swatting them out of the tree, we decided we needed to shoot the cat from there instead of trying to get closer so i layed down and got on him and hit him behind shoulder slight quartering away and the 308 just stoned him out of the tree. We took pictures and measured him and got him skinned and quarterd and started hauling hide and meat out, got back to trucks and loaded up and out. Was an amazing hunt with awesome guide and great helpers and was great to have my dad there to see it, now we shoot up to oregon for cow elk so i can hopefully watch him shoot an elk.
Cat measured 8'8" from tip to tale, we didnt get a weight but i would guess 150-175lbs was a big tom.
Gun used was a 308 i built on remington 700 action, proof sendero 20" barrell, jewell trigger, stockys carbon fiber stock, and burris fullfield scope. Bullets were maker trex 130 grain which we found under skin behind opposite side shoulder.
Day one: We get up at 1:30 have breakfast and head out for the 2 hour drive to get to a place that had any type of snow to try and cut tracks, we drove utvs over many mountains and finally found a day old track high up a mointain but late in the day, so we packed up and would put dogs on that track on day two.
Day two: We get up at 3:30 have breakfast and head out, we work our way up to where we saw the tracks the day before but on our way up we notice that same cat had worked his way around that nite so we had even newer tracks to work with, so as it got to daylight we let the dogs out and away they go straight down a canyon and over the next mountain and down into the next canyon and boom treed. We found a roadway on the onx that went up that canyon a bit so we drove down and got over there and got to 576 yards of where the dogs were treed at. We got to about 75 yards and noticed the tree the cat was in was a fallen tree leaning up against a standing tree and the dogs kept going up it and the cat was just swatting them out of the tree, we decided we needed to shoot the cat from there instead of trying to get closer so i layed down and got on him and hit him behind shoulder slight quartering away and the 308 just stoned him out of the tree. We took pictures and measured him and got him skinned and quarterd and started hauling hide and meat out, got back to trucks and loaded up and out. Was an amazing hunt with awesome guide and great helpers and was great to have my dad there to see it, now we shoot up to oregon for cow elk so i can hopefully watch him shoot an elk.
Cat measured 8'8" from tip to tale, we didnt get a weight but i would guess 150-175lbs was a big tom.
Gun used was a 308 i built on remington 700 action, proof sendero 20" barrell, jewell trigger, stockys carbon fiber stock, and burris fullfield scope. Bullets were maker trex 130 grain which we found under skin behind opposite side shoulder.
