Gary, i gotta hand it to you, the video of that mtn lion in broad daylight hanging by that caller is amazing!

I would have never believed it had i not seen it as well…just amazing. Sniffing all up on it and still just hanging out.

Well done sir!

Thanks Partner! There were several things that really impressed me about this lion.
#1 To call a lion out on the open flat in the daylight is shocking. I have seen tracks of lions crossing big flats in the darkness while the lion was hunting deer that were feeding there in the Navajo Nation.
#2 That the big female even heard me. I was calling to the north, she came from the south and there was a 5-10 mph breeze from the west. If you look closely at the video, you can see a few snow flurries drifting from left to right. I feel that this female came from a pair of low hills about a half a mile away because that is where the deer were congregated. In this country, if you find deer, you have a chance to find lion sign. I did a little research and found that a mature lion is traveling approximately 8 mph when trotting in the long trot that she employed to arrive. It took her approximately 15 minutes to arrive. The $64,000 question is, did she begin her advance as soon as I started calling or was she on the back side of the hill and did not hear me until she came around???? We will never know but one thing for sure is, a lion can cover a lot of ground when they are in that long trot.
#3 I know that bobcats don't have great olfactory senses so I don't concern myself with wind direction when setting up to call them. I do know that lions have a keener sense of smell than bobcats. It had been approximately 20 minutes since I set the call out before the lion arrived. One would think that my scent would have been pretty strong when she smelled of the FREQ. I think this is why she raised her head and curled her lip after sniffing the caller. Her body language told me that while she may not have liked my "stink", the sound was so sweet that she was not leaving.
Now that we are able to produce a full spectrum of all sounds naturally produced, we are seeing strange animal reactions on most every hunt. Without a doubt, the FREQ is the greatest innovation since electronic callers were first produced in the 1950's.
Adios,
Gary