South Dakota Teen Takes Out Mountain Lion To Protect His Home

By Tom Knighton

Large predators are a scourge in rural environments. Any kind of livestock or pet is fair game (no pun intended) for the four-legged fiends. When you depend on these animals, it’s especially troubling when some kind of predator is killing them.

In South Dakota, a 14-year-old boy decided enough was enough after a mountain lion killed one of the goats his mother keeps as part of a small goat dairy operation. He took a 30-06 rifle he won at an NRA raffle and used a playhouse as a ground blind. After all, not only where there goats to protect, but also small children sometimes played in that yard and might make a tempting target for the hungry lion.

Dalton Streff fancied himself a hunter at age 14 and had completed his hunter safety course, so he felt perfectly fine taking up his position in the playhouse to wait for the animal, though his mother, Lila, was skeptical.

“He decided he was going to go sit out there until 7, when he had to do milking chores,” Streff said. “He said he’d go back out again at 5:30 in the morning if it hadn’t returned that night. But even though it …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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