As we drove, I noticed that the terrain certainly looked like typical lion country. Without further delay, we loaded up Wallace’s truck with all my gear and headed north for an hour’s ride to the ranch where the lion had been reported. Field & Stream Tracking a Record-Book Lion ![]() “Lion of a Lifetime” was first published in the August 1971 issue. This particular target has a 3-inch bull’s-eye and is shot from 20 yards. I found that every so often I could shoot a perfect score on a Professional Archery Association target with the bow. However, it now fit my hand perfectly, and I quickly developed confidence in the new bow. The handle neck was so small that I began to wonder if it would hold together under all conditions. ![]() ![]() I cut a big section out of the handle and put a coat of brown flocking on the entire weapon. The previous spring, Ken Barnes, president of the Howatt Archery Company of Yakima, Washington, had given me a prototype of a new hunting bow, which had a draw weight of 57 pounds and a length of 60 inches. I set the date for mid-December, several months off, so I’d have enough time to get in the right mental as well as physical condition for a hunt I wanted to be in topnotch shape for. My cougar research made memories of my first lion adventure even more vivid, and I decided to arrange for one additional, and final, hunt with Bill Wallace.
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