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Show HTh' L3(Sira HfanimtteiFS Home From Tte Mills CRAIG-"Some of the best times of my life have been hunting with Cap Atwood, 11 stated successful lion hunter, Willard Sargent of BertranJ, Nebraska. Cap Atwood, Roger Horn, and Willard Sargent just returned this morning from a lion hunt in the west end of Brown's Park in Utah. The result of their 47th hunting trip was the best lion trophy that they have ever bagged. The lion above is a giant trophy weighing an approximate approxi-mate 200 pounds and is a prime male mountain lion. They first jumped the lion in Sears Canyon and trailed him with dogs and horses for what seemed around 15 miles thru rough, rocky country. The lion used every trick that he knew to try and lose the trailing dogs and hunters. In Ciouse Canyon the dogs caught up with the lion and succeeded in cornering him on a rock ledge. The lion jumped from the ledge into a tree where he was shot twice by Mr. Sargent, but the wounded lion jumped into another ano-ther tree and finally back to a rock ledge where Mr. Sargent fatally shot him with a . 22 pistol. pis-tol. All of the hunters agree that hunting lions is one of the biggest thrills in hunting. Cap Atwood and Willard Sargent have made 47 sorties into the hills in pursuit of deer, elk and mountain lion. TTiis is the ninth lion bagged in many years of hunting. Accompanying the hunters on his first successful lion hunt was Roger Horn a native of Eureka, California, who has been working with Cap Atwood throughout the hunting season and has lived in the Craig area for about one year. Roger stated about lion hunting, "I love it!" Atwood, arriving home last night from the Browns Park area told the Press that this is the first year in his experience of hunting lions that he has ever seen these animals digging up or eating old deer carcasses. Atwood takes this as a strong indication of the shortage of deer , in the hills. . . he states, "These lions arc getting hungry because be-cause of a real shortage of deer to cat. " In further discussion, dis-cussion, he also explained that for the first time that he can remember, they are eating the entire carcass where in the past years they have only feasted on the more choice portions of the deer. This was a successful hunt for the Atwood party and all of the veteran hunters were well pleased with the extra fine trophy which Cap terms, "The best lion we Ve ever taken. " |