Yeeeep, things can get pret-ty wild out there on the ol' American Frontier:

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte shot and killed a mountain lion that was being tracked by the National Park Service in December, his second such hunt of a monitored animal that ventured outside the protected areas of Yellowstone National Park.

The Republican governor "had a valid mountain lion license, treed a lion on public land in Park County and harvested it," his spokesperson, Brooke Stroyke, said, adding that dogs were used in the hunt and drove the lion up the tree.

Oh, it's his "second such hunt"? Okay, so this is something he does sort of routinely at this point. No big deal.

You know, this kinda puts Gianforte's onetime congressional campaign promise in a little sharper focus:

Did those values include "mountain lion hunting"? Because I'm not sure this would fly at the corner of 9th and Massachusetts. But who knows?

In any event, as exhilarating as it doubtlessly is to take after a mountain lion with a big old 30.06, let us remember that there's more than one way to, well...you know.

Quite a life they got out there in Montana!

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