Lion on the loose
In Colorado. So, what gun would you carry for a lion?
18 Responses to “Lion on the loose”
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July 15th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Anything big. Prefferable 12 guage pump with double ought buck. He might get close but not close enough.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am
In a shotgun I’d use slugs. .38 caliber pellets just don’t reassure me enough.
I’d use my .300 Win Mag from 500 yards from the top of a tall building. Or, if had one, an accurate .50 BMG from 500 yards. Anything that will lunch on my internal organs if I don’t bring them down deserves my attention from well outside their normal striking range but well within my one-shot-one kill zone.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am
My .303 SMLE III*.
BIG holes. Hi-speed low drag. Run out of ammo and it makes a fine club. Attach the bayonet and even the Zulu’s would think twice.
July 15th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Maybe an NAA .22mag loaded with a single round…
July 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
My preference is a Socom 16. Consider it a range rifle on steroids.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:34 am
My 7mm rem mag, only because its the biggest thing I own now.
A garand or M14 loaded with X Bullets would be nice – I want repeat shot capability vs a lion.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I still want the 12 guage. It may be a .38 pellet but there are serveral of them. While I can shot it from long range, I have the guns and the skill, I cannot depend on my ability to sense the lion at that range. I would expect the lion to announce its presence in my kill zone at 20 yards or less. Raw firepower is called for, not surgical precision.
That is my story and I’m sticking to it 🙂
July 15th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
M79 grenade launcher…
July 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Isn’t the proper sort of gun for African lion pretty well settled? I’ll take a .375 H&H, or a .416 Rigby.
July 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
MK19.
Okay, barring that, a 12GA semiautomatic with extended tube filled with 3″ magnum slugs, and a 44MAG on the hip.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Well, look at that. The story’s been updated and the lion has been downgraded to “might actually just be a dog” status.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
BFG 9000.
Even if it does turn out to be an ornery dog.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Probably something dangerous and unusual.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:17 am
I’m with Rob K; any of the big African game rounds will do it just fine. The only such round I’ve ever fired was an old .505 Gibbs and that might be a little much. But really, when we’re talking about a critter that is both capable of and potentially interested in lunching on me, I’ll take “too much” over “too little” any day.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:51 am
don’t KILL the poor thing!!! tranquilize it!!
July 16th, 2008 at 7:52 am
In the book “The Ghost and the Darkness” John Patterson used a Lee-Enfield. I don’t recall which version.
Seem to work quite well on the Lions that were intentionally hunting men.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:52 am
GAU-8 http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/gau-8.htm
^_^
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
We’re talking about a mountain lion, not an African lion. Or maybe a dog.
Mountain lions are stealth attackers, usually jumping their normal prey (whitetail deer) from behind and/or above (like from an overhanging rock or tree at a water hole or along a game trail). Human attacks have occurred on children and adult hikers, usually in a similar ambush style.
So the first thing to do is not get ambushed…. maybe by having a small yippy dog with you to alert to the lion smell. Then the second thing to do would be to find the big cat (often hard to do, unless you use a pack of trained dogs to tree the thing after a long chase). Then the shooting could be tried – if you could get close enough to see the cat in a tree. The last mountain lion hunt I saw on TV was a bowhunter with a guide and several dogs. The hunter took a minute or two to stop gasping after humping his way through waist high snow to the treed cat. Altitude sucks.
I would like to see the lion after being missed by a NAA 22; more mad or more scared would be the question!