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My favorite line, right at the beginning, "The scary part is once he's out". Talk about understatement, ha ha. He might go the other way or he might just turn into a buzz saw.

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Wish I had high-speed internet here in Tucson so I could watch that video.

 

There have been many mountain lions captured alive and tied up over the past 100 years. A guy named Charles "Buffalo" Jones caught dozens of them using only ropes on the Kaibab in the early 1900s.

 

There's a photo in one of Zane Grey's books showing four or five live mature lions Jones caught and tied to jackpines. Another photo shows Jones and Grey with a live lion hogtied on a horse.

 

Jones was a flamboyant cowboy and showman. He and two other Arizona cowboys roped a lion, a rhino and various antelopes in Africa and several muskoxen in Canada. He died from malaria (or so it was reported) after capturing a gorilla alive on his second trip to Africa and selling it to a zoo in Europe.

 

Dale Lee told me he and his brothers used to rope lions in trees, pull them down, tie their legs together, put sticks in their mouths, tie them shut, and pack the lions out on their saddles.

 

My wife had a cousin who trained his hounds for a time with a bobcat. After the dogs tracked and treed the cat, he would tie them up and use a small catch pole to stuff it into a small garbage can he had rigged with hasps (so he could lock the can) and straps (so he could carry the can like a backpack).

 

He stopped using that bobcat after it avoided the noose and jumped on his bald head with all of its claws extended.

 

Bill Quimby

 

 

 

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Old timey lion hunters did a buncha stuff folks today would call bs. Cowboy brown got in a buncha trouble for bringing a live lion into bill's bar in showlow. Like mentioned, cats choke down real easy. They could've choked this one down and took the trap off a lot easier. You can also choke one to death real easy if you ain't carefull too. This lion looks like it's caught in a coyote set. Trap looks like its a little smaller than what you'd use if your trying to trap a lion. Don't see a kill either. Lark

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That lion was recently released from a bobcat trap on the Pine Valley unit in southern Utah. By Utah law if a mountain lion is caught in your trap you must release it immediately or contact F&G to assist in the release if you are uncomfortable releasing it on your own.

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That was pretty cool! I also wondered about the 2nd guy L.O.L. never seen a grown man move that quick

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good video, Thanks for sharing. I would agree with you hog hntrnthe 2nd guy was moving pretty darn quick.

 

Not to say that I wouldn't. great stuff

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And by the way i watched and was yelling at the guy then took phone in to wife so she could view and she was soon yelling at him also.. Get his leg! Come on it is not difficult wrap that thing around it!! Come on already!!!!!

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Big respect for that wildlife officer. Earned his money on that one, and then some! That's the kind of guy you want backing you up if the shtf!

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