Lion Back Straps

Lion Back Straps

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Larry Amos is the head guide and owner of WinterHawk, an outfitting service Way up in the Flat Tops Wilderness of Colorado. I recently had a conversation with him regarding lion hunting. He told me lion hunting is done December, January, February and part of March until it gets mellowed out and muddy. He usually has three or four people hunting with him. He sends a couple of guides out about 11 o'clock at night and they start cutting old logging roads and old trails with snow machines and when they find a good track, and it has to be a Tom track and it has to be a good mature lion. they sat on the track till daylight and we will turn the dogs loose on the track at daylight and we catch the lion. Once the lion has been harvested: "we pack the lion out." This next part is where I had the revelation. "And we pack the meat out because lion meat, back straps are very, very good meat to eat, the old frontiersman used to say that it was the ultimate choice of wild game is lying. And that is pretty much the way we do our hunts. I pretty much succeed 100% of the time." I have hunted with Larry and I know that to be true.
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