Ugly Lion
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From: Blacktail Bob
29-Jan-17
2017 in Arizona
From: Charlie Rehor
29-Jan-17
Agreed! Sucker punched em Eh!
From: Dennis Razza
29-Jan-17
Definitely ugly!
From: BOWUNTR
29-Jan-17
Wow.... lots of explaining to do.... Ed F
From: LBshooter
29-Jan-17
Well you figure no matter what the taxi does to it it will come out better looking lol.
From: Ole Coyote
29-Jan-17
got his butt kicked a few times by something that's for sure!
From: midwest
29-Jan-17
wow....roadkill?
From: Too Many Bows Bob
29-Jan-17
I'm always amazed at what these critters can survive.
TMBB
From: t-roy
29-Jan-17
"You should have seen the other guy"!
From: Mark Watkins
29-Jan-17
I doubt that even Dennis R can "clean him up!"
Mark
From: Bake
29-Jan-17
Fall off a rim rock at the shot?
From: Blacktail Bob
29-Jan-17
He was an old warrior. We started the chase at 9:30am and finished at 4:00pm. He had clearly lost a few battles with a younger Tom but wasn't willing to give it it up easily. His nose was almost tore off and his eye almost tore out. Scares on his shoulders and neck.
From: Matt
29-Jan-17
Congratulations - a good taxidermist should be able to fix that. For some reason, people don't give cat hunts their due when it comes to level of difficulty. The shooting can be easy, but getting to the tree is another story altogether.
From: Ermine
29-Jan-17
Damn that's narly. Thats cool! Congrats!
From: Blacktail Bob
29-Jan-17
I dont want him fixed up. I want him the way he was. Great hunt. Almost 9 miles.
From: Shiras
29-Jan-17
Congrats on a fine trophy.
From: Shug
29-Jan-17
It looks like you saved him
From: Mark Watkins
30-Jan-17
Bob,
Great story and cat... Congrats!
Any idea of the age?
Mark
From: bill v
30-Jan-17
Maybe someone hit him with one of those Expandable gadgets :O
Bill V
From: Florida Mike
30-Jan-17
Congrats Bob! But I have seen much uglier COUGARS in Florida...
From: Blacktail Bob
30-Jan-17
The Cougars in Florida are far more dangerous too. You better be careful!!!
From: Bake
30-Jan-17
From: GotBowAz
30-Jan-17
Wow, looks like he really got a beating. Congrats on the big tom Bob. He is still a great trophy.
From: Mike the Carpenter
30-Jan-17
If I were fortunate enough to shoot one, I could only hope he would look like that. It shows the trials of life it went thru and should be preserved. Thank you for sharing with us.
From: TD
30-Jan-17
wow.
seeing and hearing these feral cats around here scrap..... I could only imagine what something like that would look/sound like.
Did you get any kind of age on him? He might not have been around too much longer. Old warriors just don't have any quit in em.
From: loesshillsarcher
30-Jan-17
THAT is one UGLY lion. No doubt.
From: GF
30-Jan-17
Just post the pics when you get him back... From the looks of it, his best days were behind him, but (JMO) no need to preserve him in quite such an advanced a state of disrepair... Battle scars are one thing, but that first pic is just plumb unflattering!!!
From: Ursus a. Horribilis
30-Jan-17
Definitely has "Character". Congrats on a nice, mature cat Bob!
From: willliamtell
30-Jan-17
If you're not counting antler inches, (and maybe even then) imo character and living marks are what makes an animal distinctive. Like to see the mount - if your taxi captures it you will have a unique head for sure. A warrior meeting an appropriate end.
From: XbowfromNY
30-Jan-17
Congrats. Not as ugly as the cougars posted on the "booner" thread.
From: APauls
30-Jan-17
Nice! Ya so does that get scored as a non-typical?
From: Steve H.
30-Jan-17
My AZ lion looked almost as bad after an arrow to the cranium and getting speared (it was tucked back in a large rock fracture out of straight arrow path--taped my fixed blade knife to a pole).
From: TD
30-Jan-17
I've seen a couple looked like that when they came back from taxi..... that likely didn't look like that going in...... =D
I remember that story Steve...... the both of ya left it all out there on the desert......
From: Brotsky
30-Jan-17
Congrats Bob! All lions are beautiful to this guy, especially dead ones! Way to go!
From: IdyllwildArcher
30-Jan-17
Grats Bob. It's a violent world for male predators.
From: BSBD
31-Jan-17
That's just a badass old lion!
From: weekender21
31-Jan-17
Wow, looks like he lost a fight with a lawn mower!
From: trkyslr
31-Jan-17
Congrats!
From: GhostBird
31-Jan-17
Congratulations.
From: Chief 419
31-Jan-17
I think a taxidermist is going to have a hard time recreating the "ugliness". Unique trophy. Congrats!
From: trkytrack
31-Jan-17
Wow. Tough time sweet talking the ladies with a face like that. One things for sure....there's one big badass lion still hanging around that place.