11 y/o girl kills mountain lion stalking her brother

[Balog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568771/Girl-11-shoots-cougar-following-brother-14-home-making-THIRD-mountain-cat-killed-one-week.html#ixzz2uU1tNzmZ

She even had a tag for it already so she'll get to keep it no hassle. I hope my own girls turn out this awesome.

[Tallpine]

trusty .234 caliber gun

 

[BryanP]

edit: never mind

[230RN]

Little brothers make good bait.

Yeah, .324... oh, wait, I mean .423.

.60mm rifles are good loin medicine and on up to dear.

That poor cat looked like it needed culling.   Nice swift death for it, though.

[tokugawa]

That poor cat looked like it needed culling.   Nice swift death for it, though.

 Yes, very thin- there must have been something wrong with it- and it was a mercy to kill it quickly- starvation is a bad way to go.

[Northwoods]

That's not very far from where I like to hunt mule deer.  I always get a cougar and a bear tag as cheap insurance.

[Perd Hapley]

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[gunsmith]

Little brothers make good bait.

That initially got me suspicious, I didn't read the article posted but I read an article on drudge the other day.
So dad see's a lion stalking his son and has his 11 or 12 yr old kid dispatch it instead of him??
Yeah, she has the tag but even though I do not know where this is - no jury is going to convict a dad shooting a lion stalking his kid.
Even CA wouldn't do that....

Anyway, looks like a nice family to me, they would be great neighbors.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

They wanted to keep kitty rug

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[MechAg94]

Did the daily mail pull all the girl's moline pictures or something? 

[Balog]

Did the daily mail pull all the girl's moline pictures or something? 

Moline picture?

[Regolith]

Moline picture?

I think he meant to type "online" there.

[230RN]

^ Meh.  No worse than the ".234" rifle in the article.

gunsmith remarked,

So dad see's a lion stalking his son and has his 11 or 12 yr old kid dispatch it instead of him??
Yeah, she has the tag but even though I do not know where this is - no jury is going to convict a dad shooting a lion stalking his kid.

Good point there.  Hadn't thought of that.  Shouldn't give the awe-thor-itees hints like that though.  

<hyperbole>
They'll have CSI Wherever swoop down and find that dad dood da doity deed by finding traces of dad's breakfast coffee on the trigger and spend beaucoup dollars "proving" it in court... and waste everybody's time.  But the jury would have a good time laughing about it in the jury room for five minutes before rendering a verdict.
</hyperbole>

[Northwoods]

If a youth size .243 is the easiest gun to grab and the kid has a few deer under her belt, I'd hand the rifle off too.  I'm not going to be as familiar with that gun as her, and it might well not shoot to point of aim for me since the stock would be way too small which would throw off the aim.

On top of that, if she still has a tag, and I've used mine, letting her shoot saves a *expletive deleted*it ton of potential grief from DFW.  In the end it would be OK, but for a while you couldn't be absolutley certain of that.

[Regolith]

Or it could even be that Dad shot it, and said it was the daughter to avoid complications because she had the tag.