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I took my GPS tracker out of my pocket, and I could just barely pick up a signal from Bullet’s collar. I replied, “I think Bullet is running a different lion.” There were five dogs at the tree, but my old dog Bullet wasn’t there. Finally, four or five of the dogs took off and ran about a mile from where we were. The dogs went up the side of a mountain and stayed on one particular ledge for a long time, which often meant a mountain lion had spent a lot of time in that area. We were hunting with a friend of mine who had dogs also, and he said, “Let’s go over to a place I know of and see if we can find a cat big enough for Mike to take.” We hunted hard and located a couple of cats. I was hunting with my son Mike who also had dogs. That was one of the shortest hunts I guess we’ve had. I was reaching for the third dog when I looked back at the first two dogs, and they had jumped the mountain lion out of the ditch right beside the road. I turned one of my dogs loose, and he turned another dog loose. I told him, “Let’s put a couple of dogs on that track and see what they say about it.” There’s so much snow in the track it’s hard to tell.” We were walking up a road, and my wife’s cousin said, “I can’t really tell if this is a mountain lion track or not, but it looks like it might be. About 18 inches of snow had fallen the night before. I never will forget one hunt I went on with my wife’s cousin. I was probably about 20 yards from the cat, and he was snarling and growling. I was able to climb up the side of the mountain so that I was level on the same plane as the cat. We had treed a huge, tom lion and he was in the top of a cedar tree. One of the best pictures I ever made I shot with my film camera. However, with my digital camera, I shoot 50 or more to make sure I can get at least one good picture. Back when I was using a film camera, I’d usually shoot 20 to 30 photos of each cat we treed. I carry it in a backpack, until I reach the tree where the dogs have a lion bayed. I shoot a Nikon D5000 digital camera, and I use a Nikon 70-300mm lens. When I got on top of the ditch, one of my dogs came in and treed a cat that had been standing on that log that I had just walked under. On one hunt, I had to go down a ravine and walk under a log lying over the ravine. They can hide really well, and they try to avoid people. I like taking pictures of wildlife, and I especially like photographing mountain lions because most people never have seen a mountain lion. I have always carried a camera with me when I go hunting. I got bit by the photography bug when I was a kid. I have always been interested in photography.