North Idaho Lion Country ElkShape

Two perfect shots! Dan made a great shot. Dogs did their job. We got a kitty down in Idaho, baby. Max Kooski, here it is! Max, Max, right here. Look, right here, look. Put your nose in it. Come on, right here, right here. Right here, right there, right there. Yup, good boy. Yup. That's a dog. See that shot? Such a giant animal, man. Hello. Hey, Tyler, quick question for you, sir. Sure. If there was a guy who wanted to buy tags in Rathdrum or Athol, where would he go? Like, to buy a mountain lion tag on the way to go kill a mountain lion. Uh, by where? Have you had a license here before? Yes. Smoking hot track. Alright, so the dudes are above us. They just let him out, cut the track. There's a road that parallels this one. We kind of got lucky. We were going to meet them up top, but they're already on the cat. And we got the numbers, the codes, so we can track them on the Garmin. They're 500 yards. We can hear the hounds right now, so. Hopefully they're on that cat and getting them in a tree. Hopefully kind of close to the road. Okay. Check out this lion. Yeah, I gotcha. So I did cut the track coming down on the main road. But then it looks like Max and Kuski are just running down, but I need to see where it bailed off. Oh, 10-4. So it might get the tire tracks or something. I suppose you were probably just cruising coming in. I wouldn't have noticed it anyway, huh? Yeah, we were just cruising. So I'm going to see if I can find it and go get them and get them back up. Yeah, 10-4. Basically, we might have ran over the cat track. So we got to get the dogs back on the freshest track. So right now he's looking for the cat to see where it dumped off. Right here. Kuski, Max, come on. Max. Here, Max. Come here. Come here, Max. Good boy. Come here. Max. Max, right here. Look. Right here. Look. Put your nose in. Come on. Right here. Right there. Yep. Good boy. Yep. Max, right there. Yep. Kuski, come on. Kuski. Come on. Right here. Come on, Kuski. Yeah. Come on, dog. They're cruising now. Come on. I don't know what her name is. Yeah, go ahead. She's looking. I think that puppy, that Lexi pup, just hit the road. Hi, Lexi pup. She's got my purple collar on. Are you tracking that? I'm petting her. I'm not tracking her. You're going to find me the kitty. Come on, Lexi. Let's go find that kitty. Here, Lexi. Lexi. Here it is. Lexi. Here. Lexi. Here it is. Right here. Come on. There it is. Yep. Good girl. Looks like they came down where we jumped them off the road. And it's definitely a lot of pressure. So I wonder to see what they did. If it went up there and made a loop. But they're winding back out. So we'll see. Actually, they're coming almost back to the road. Gotcha. Yep. Yeah, it must have just went up there and made a loop and come back down or something. Hopefully it's not giving them a hard time not wanting to tree. Yeah, it looks like they're just paralleling the road and heading down the creek still. Looked like a pretty good top. I mean. He's doing smart things. Yeah. Oh, he's definitely being smart. Yeah, dude. We started it clear. Two canyons over. If you go over the top of that mountain, basically we were two canyons that side of that ridge line. That's where we started out. They're about ready to come across the road again. Yeah. That's the cap. Right here. Max, right here. Right here. Max. Kisky, right here. Right here. Come on, Andy. How hot was this track? It was pretty fresh. I mean, it's hard to say. Yeah. It didn't have any snow in it, so it's mid after daylight today. You know, I mean, I would think they got to be getting. I thought they jumped it. What's that? You think they jumped it? Maybe. They're just down in the bottom. Because down in that tree, compared to on that side, was like fresh. I mean, there's no snow in it at all. Came back down, running up the road. Yeah. Came down right here, and I was just walking up around the corner, and that one, that fresh dog he put on, she come freaking barreling down that hillside. It's right in the bottom. In the bottom. Maybe even slightly on that side of the creek, according to my map. Do we want to go down and just hit the creek and walk it up? I hope those dogs are still full of stoke. Hello there. It was like, I probably just missed that cat coming down across the road. You think? Because I was walking up the corner, just to see where it came. And that fresh dog that Leon turned loose was just like, she came off that open spot where I was standing, just freaking hauling. We don't know if it's a male or female yet, do we? It looks like it, nice. The track looks like a top drag. I think we're, well, we're treed. And so we're driving around this other road, and where it's not as steep. And we're going to walk in probably the creek. Hopefully. Release. Check. You good? Holy. And he stopped. Right in the creek. Dude, I just saw blood go everywhere. You guys, I had to get, I had to go, I had to shoot up. And that first shot, I had to run money. And then they said, get another one in him. I went up there, and I saw the other green, green knock just blow through him. So, yeah, pretty crazy right now. And then he just fell and died in the creek. Did you get that? Holy ----. That's crazy. What the **** is that? Jesus Christ. Freaking. Getting nervous, man. That second one didn't even hit him? I don't know if it hit him. I think he went right up in that thing. I was sure the second one hit. Oh, yeah, that's the first one, isn't it? No, that would be the first one. Based on the angle? Yeah. The first shot, dude, I was at full drop forever, but my bubble kept going far right. I'm like, all right, back out, back out. But it's a Tom? Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah, dude, two perfect shots. Just such a giant animal, man, like pound for pound. So dense, muscle bound. All they eat is protein. And we're going to eat this thing. It's awesome. We saved some deer. We saved some elk. We're with Leon, Clark Fork Outfitters. We're going to figure out a way so you guys can do what we just did and go with Leon and his squad. They're awesome, top shelf. They're just North Idaho bros, our kind of people. The cat fell from the tree right into the creek. Oh, man, it was awesome. Jacob pulled it out of the creek. First shot. This is actually the second shot. This is the first shot. This is the angle shooting straight up at it. We used the Slick Trick Magnum SS. And that probably did it, but I got a second shot. Leon was like, put another one in him. I said, yes, sir. And that was the Iron Will single bevel. Dude, both those broadheads, just absolutely awesome. So now we got to get this thing out. We're fighting daylight. It's snowing. Awesome adventure. Thanks for coming with us and checking it out. What are you eating? Brown Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion Burger.