roscosrokons wrote:Now cecil be nice.
You know what I'm saying. I like a cold nosed hound as much or more than anybody, but when a bobcat gets jumped he better be smart enough to quit straddling that track and get with the program or that cat will just stay ahead of him all day long. I got a big blue male that is a slow going cold tracking s.o.b. A few years back I told my buddies he would never be a bobcat dog. I'll be damned if he didn't make a liar out of me. He can work a cold track that most hounds won't mess with but yet when he gets a bobcat jumped he picks up his head and runs like he's chasing a deer.
Ross
Ya know i told about a pair of blues i owned in the 60-63 erra named Smokey River Blue Monk (ole Arkie) 57 lb hound and a Vaughns Blue Blue hecwas every bit of 88 lbs in hard hunten shape. They was a pair and Ole Arkie come from Russelsville Ark. too meand Big Blue come from Guinda Springs Kan. too a friend of mine and i got the dog off him. Arkie was 3 1/2 yrs old when I gothim and Blue was 20 months old and could tree a coon solo also.
I was but 16 and I had a pu truck andlived too hunt and hunted too live! I had this place call nigg32 heven up in the caypay hills I hunted and it led into a canyon with a long ridge on one side, a dry summes time boulders creek at the bottems and accrost on the east/south side was rollen fothills with tons of bluffs and brush and scrubb oak trees. That canyon was called Panther canyon it had a cave in there that lions bedded and raised cubs up in all the time.
The point of all this is, my 2 hounds rum gray fox,coon in the Sacramento River bottems were I was raised on a 20,000 sq.acer farm belonging too an stocks & bonds firm and my adopted father Jack McGilvray was a foreman on that ranch for37 yrs and died there. So I huntedit on foot on friday & saturday nights dureing school months and 4 nights a week dureing summers. Then I took my pickup truck a 2 blues and went too the foot hills hunten some 40 miles or so from my home on the ranch.
Rosco/ let me tell ya a thing I learned right off that stayed with me and in thebig woods oroved samely true./ there was a point on the end of the long ridge bluffwith a granett rock cropping cliff. Growing out of a crevess in those bolders was a big bull pine tree and it looked like one of them bonzized evergreen dwarfted trees growen all narrly and leaning way out and curved like a saddle trunked apparenced and then shot up in a taller leaning out over the canyon cliff edge/looken down maybe 250 ft. too the dry boulder rock creek bottem below.
Ya know my blue dogs fired up track after track and unfor 6-8 hrs each race and would come in after runnen way out of hearing and felled treed up on that same cottenpicken tree ! Some nights is was a coon up, soome night a gray fox, other nights a bobcat, and now and then a mtn lion was up there. You can find a pituclar areathat is set up to tree in a same tree up for all game if ya leave em alone,dont smoke,dont turn-on-a-light and quietly viewit from a far/ the race will come back too that tree and go up. Let the dogs srttle and cast a soft light from a farr off at it and see what briteness how far accrost in span and some time a firey red or gree eyse staren back, other time soft amber of a gray fox and some time amber coon eyes ! Bear hunters learned too walk the woods were ther hunting with no dogs looken for elbowed limb trees and also loken for claw marks goen up them trees ! when ya do come back too run ya might find the game is treed up in one of them elbowed tree limgs ya seen and noted on earler-on.
jack
