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I found a 5x6 bull elk pulled into a culvert on the county road this year. It was two weeks before the season started. All but the rack was in the culvert. He drug it most of 200yds. In 3 months I havent seen a cat cross there since.

Lol... Must have been A wolverine......

That culvert deal happens more often than one might beleive. I was hunting over near Eagles Nest one time and the rancher said I never thought I had lions right down here close but one morning I got up and dang near was flooded out. He said the irrigation going to a field near the house was stopped up and it backed up all over the place. Well he went to investigate and found a yearling elk that had been killed drug down to a tin whistle or culvert that went over the little road that seperated the fields. He said he found lion tracks all over the place in the mud and it looked like the cat was trying to get it in the culvert.. Well he pulled it out of there as best he could and figured he would get the tractor with the farmhand on it the next day and carry that elk off. Well he gets up in the morning and danged if he ain't dang near flooded out again. The lion came back and once again ate on it but then tried to fit it back in that culvert. He hauled it off after that. LOL!

Say one thing I have found about lions packing off kills; I mean packing and not dragging. the females usually do the best job of this if it is an animal that they can carry. I believe due to the strength in a lion's front end they can pack more than you would think and not let much hit the ground. I found a big mule deer doe one time right in the middle of this dirt road. Well I pulled up and looked it over and directly a Forest Ranger pulled up behind me. I saw lion track and I said well this is a lion kill. He said no those are dog tracks and this deer was hit and killed by a water truck. I said really? He said yes those guys drive like crazy down here and this is just one of a few I have found lately. I said well mister I don't know much but what are these tracks coming up to this deer? He said I told you it was a dog because these guys that are out there working run their dogs up these roads. I said well why don't you and me take a little walk and I will show you that you are wrong. He was sort of a prick about it but said ok. well you could plainly see where this female lion had this doe up and carried here about 150 yards up thjis road and must have got scared off by a truck or something and ran off. I then took him off the road another 50 yards to a little dip and right there you could see where the female had got the deer and killed it. Well he just couldn't beleive that a lion could do that and said he would have to see it to believe it. I said that can be arranged. We got back to the truck and I said wait right there and watch. I jumped old Gunner, Booger and Kate out of the box and said. Look for it! Well they went to work and in just a few seconds were bawling off towards the rocks on the west of the road. 20 minutes later I stood beside the huffing and puffing red faced ranger under a ponderosa looking up at a snarling female lion. He was amazed and said are you going to kill it? I said why heavens no, this is a female and she was packing that thing a good ways and I reckon she has some young ones to feed that are not traveling much yet. On that road from what i saw she never even let a leg swing down and scrape the ground but I have seen them do that.

Now on big toms , you would think they would be the ones who could really pick them up and carry them off. My experience has shown a lot of times they eat them where they fall and move on or they just sort of hang on and drag them sloppy like a ways leaving a big old hair trail till they get a little cover and then eat on them and lay up right there and then just walk off and leave them seldom even buried. I always called them sort of fast food freaks.

I have never seen a lion kill cached in a tree but then again there is a lot about lions I have never seen so it sure enough could happen.