Mutz wrote:I never can tell if you guys are serious or just kidding each other.
I want to ask a stupid question. How old of scent can your dogs follow? I hear you guys talking about two and three day old tracks. Geeze that seems like a long time for a dog to be able to still smell a track. And I thought cats were real clean so they didn't leave much scent?
That's funny Mutz, cause ole Ike never use to kid around and was way too serious on these boards. Then my good buddy Brent told me to lighten up and not take things so seriously. Then I realized most of these guys just get on these boards to blow off steam and release stress.....or for shits and giggles yo might say, so I just took his advice and let things roll off.
Now that scent question you ask is loaded whether you intended it or not, which is why nobody else has answered you. But in the wintry cold months, an old, veteran lion hound will bark at and trail a lion track so old only the handler would know it's a lion track. I use to love to throw down on an old track and walk along with the hounds all day, but those kind of tracks seldom turn into a lion tree. I've attached a link to a story I wrote some years back about trailing lion tracks. The article was a comparison /contrast story of old track and poor conditions to over night snow and a fresh track. I wrote the piece for Rocky Mountain Game and Fish back when I did that kinda stuff and later Buckshot ask me if he could use it on one of his web pages.
http://www.americanhoundsmen.com/scratchin.html
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