Gary Reeder
On our recent lion hunt in Africa we had a lion crouched
Monday, May 08, 2023, 12:09

in heavy grass no more than 5 feet in front of the truck. One of the trackers standing in the back of the truck spotted him and got the driver's attention and had him stop the Land Cruiser. He tried to show us the lion but none of us could see him. The tracker kept saying "look for the eyes", as that was what he saw of the lion. John, our PH finally spotted the lion or a small part of him and told the driver to very slowly back the truck up. When we got back to about 10 feet from where the lion was we spent several minutes trying to see enough of the lion for me to take a shot. In the pic below the lion is in the middle of the picture.

After I shot the lion the PH told us if we had gone past the lion he would have jumped up in the truck with us. Typical of a cat, if you run away or even back away slowly he is going to come after you.