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Man, 31, kills lion with bare hands

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A 31-year-old man killed a lion with his bare hands after the big cat attacked him while he was trail running in Horsetooth Mountain Open Space, Colorado, USA.

Travis Kauffman was attacked by the juvenile mountain lion on February 4 and about a quarter mile into his run down.

According to him, he turned when he heard some pine needles rustle and a stick break behind him.

“I turned around and just was pretty bummed out to see a mountain lion chasing after me.

“Right when I turned and saw it, it was definitely disbelief (I felt)” Kauffman said in a The Rocky Moutain Collegian report. 

“The shock of the situation and the fear and finally the instinct to fight, it was kind of that trajectory that those emotions followed.”

He threw his hands up into the air and yelled to try and deter it, but the lion lunged at him, latching onto his wrist.

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The animal bit Kauffman on the face and wrist before he strangled it to death in self-defence by stepping on its neck after wrestling it to the ground.

“I was just kind of screaming the whole time, doing my barbarian yell as best I could,” Kauffman said in a video interview with CPW Monday.

Eventually, Kauffman and the mountain lion tumbled down the south side of the trail into what he called a “wrestling match.” He was able to pin its back-legs and tried to fatally stab the lion in the neck with sticks. When this didn’t work, he managed to grab a rock and hit it in the back of the head a few times, but still wasn’t able to kill it.

“At that point, I knew … I was probably going to have to do something a little more drastic,” Kauffman said.

 “I was able to shift my weight and get a foot on its neck and … after a few minutes I thought I would be getting close and it would start thrashing again. Another couple minutes later it finally stopped moving.”

Kauffman was able to pull his wrist free and scramble back up to the trail.

“I just kinda had that wave of fear roll over me and thought that I could just end up there and stay there,” Kauffman said. 

“And luckily that wasn’t the case.”

Kauffman then ran another three miles until he came across another trail runner, who ran with him until they ran into two more people. One of the individuals then drove Kauffman to the hospital while another brought Kauffman’s truck so he could have his belongings and contact his family.

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In the attack, Kauffman did not sustain any broken bones or tendon damage but required over 20 facial stitches as well as wrist stitches. He continues to suffer from swelling, causing him to have limited motion. He also sustained contusions and puncture wounds to the neck and legs, none of which required any stitches.

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