Lungpopper said:
OK so Brad gets up there with me and its obvious this lion is getting closer. Without really thinking about it I tell Brad watch this.
I take off running right at it as fast as I could. About half way there this lion is holding his ground and I think this is going to be a fight, but I'm committed so its going to happen. I can see the cat clearly at this point and I'm gaining ground quick.
Luckily at around 15-10 yards it turned and ran.
This is what I visualize and mentally practice, but with knife in hand. I ain't gonna freeze like some damn rabbit
12 years ago I was rabbit hunting out in az with my grandpa. Down a dirt road miles away from any town we come across a mid 50s woman walking in a nice Sunday dress. We ask if she's ok, she says "yes, just going for a walk", and we continue on our way thinking she's crazy. It was over 90* and we assumed she must have lived at a ranch, maybe 2 miles from where we saw her.
Flash forward 2 years later, I'm visiting my grandpa and he says "remember that lady we saw walking down doll baby rd?" as he pulls out a newspaper. "Yeah", I say as he points to a picture in the paper. It was the same lady. She made the paper because she had single handedly killed a mountain lion that was in the process of killing her 9 ranch dogs. Her young grand kids were spending the night so despite living out in the sticks, she had locked all her guns in a safe since she had the little ones running around. In the heat of the moment after hearing a ruckus with her dogs outside, she couldnt find the safe key. Her dogs were getting mauled and the lion was not slowing down, so she went at it with a shovel. She managed to kill the lion while sustaining some cuts herself, but in the middle of the night, after the battle, she loaded up the dead lion, a couple dead dogs, the rest of the dogs (most of which also wounded), and her grandkids in her truck and headed to town for the vet, where they then made her go to the hospital.
After I said wow, that's amazing, my grandpa says while laughing, "And
we asked her if
she was alright"
