Navy SEAL Wants to Stalk, Kill, and Eat a Mountain Lion

Is there any hunts that you're like really interested in doing that you haven't done yet? I really want to do a spot and stalk mountain lion hunt. Oh Jesus. Oh yeah. You want to spot and stalk the thing that spots and stalks? Yes. Where are you going to do that? I don't know. So I think in the Dakotas and in Oregon, there's a decent chance for it. There's a decent chance because of the population density? Population density and then I think Oregon and I want to say South Dakota don't allow dog hunts. Oh. So. Oregon's weird. That's dense. Oregon's a weird place. That's dense footed. I mean foliage. Oh yeah. Yeah. That would be hard. I think it'd be hard. You know what though? I want that kind of challenge. Like those are the things that really get me. Like way deep inside. Yeah we were talking about this last night. You're going to give yourself what like three weeks? Like I'm thinking in my head I need a couple weeks to make it happen. Wow. And I'm a, look I'm a new hunter. Mm-hmm. But I'm doing as much research as possible talking to all the right people and when it happens it happens. So what. But I really want to make it happen. What's the process for that? You get a tag, you go into the back country and are you going to bivy sack or are you going to just sleep in the woods? That'd be my, that would be what I kind of want to do. Mm-hmm. Is. Solo. Bivy. Alright solo or maybe one other guy. I think more than that you're going to have so much presence in those woods you're never going to see a cat. Yeah. So how the fuck do you find a cat when you're by yourself? I think you got to cut a track or find a kill. Mm-hmm. So your plan is to get yourself in an area where they're at. Mm-hmm. A lot of stars got to line up. Yeah. But that's part of the, that's part of the cool part about hunting. It's not just killing, right? Right. That's a, that's probably one of the most difficult hunts you can go on. Damn right. Which, and for me, like growing up in Southern California, having seen a mountain lion when I was younger, I've just had a, like a real deep feeling about mountain lions. I think they're incredible animals and I think it would be a really, really special thing to pit my training and brain with a bow against a cat. And eat it. Yes. That's going to be weird. Eat it. Sitting down there eating a cat that you killed with a bow and arrow. It's going to be really cool. Yeah. That's if I'm able to make it happen at some point. But you want, I mean, you're going to get a lot of meals out of that cat. I think they're huge. That's huge. Dude, a little cat, like the one sounding down here, they're like 110, 120 pounds. Yeah. The ones up in BC are like 200. Do they really get that big? Yeah. 200. Yeah. That's a big cat. Yeah, it's a weird animal that just sort of co-exists with us. You seen that photo that I have out there of the ones, why the... How cool is that thing? Hollywood sign. That's a real photo. It looks fake. It's so cool. It looks fake, but that's from a camera trap. That is a giant cat that lives in Griffiths Park right by the Hollywood sign. Dude, cats are wild. That is a crazy place for it to live though, because it's literally on top of people. Oh yeah. Good luck finding a deer up there for that reason. That motherfucker's jacking them all. Eating everything. And dogs. And cats. And probably kids. And some kid fucks up and goes off in the woods. And lets your kid off the leash. Yeah, I mean, it's just a weird animal to co-exist with people in these sort of semi-urban settings like Griffith Park. But it's only weird because of the setting and because we're not used to it. We've co-existed with these things for so long. And now it's weird because we've separated the last few generations. So how far away are you from planning this out? Probably a couple of years, if I'm guessing correctly. How's that work? Because it's hard to get a tag? No, because I want to make sure that my skills and my ability are up to snuff where I'm comfortable doing that and pulling it off. So it's right now just a thought. Like a plan. Absolutely. Put it on the books for 2023 or something like that. Yeah, something like that.