What is your favorite?

[Marshall]

I was just wondering what some of your favorite critters to run was and why you like to run them. I personally love to run bobcats because all of the tricky lil things they do and it takes a special dog to catch them on a consistant basis i believe. It does not have to be what you can run in your state or what you can run now because of the laws you have.

I have always wondered if guys like dewey walton had always perfered bobcats or if thats just what they do now due to our laws. Would love to hear what some of you guys have to say.

Marshall

[inchtowntracking]

I like to run the easy ones because I never catch the tough ones

[dwalton]

Marshall: I have always loved to run bobcats. I treed my first one when I was 14 with two young dogs that I had raised. I hunted a lot of bear in my young days with one of the best bear hunter and dogs in the country { Leo Tennison and Joe}. I sold my bear dogs when my kids came along, !978. I still hunted with bear hunters but not with my dogs. I hunted cat and cougar when I had a client. Now just bobcats. To me bobcat hunting is the ultimate hound hunting. I will guide cougar hunters again when we get the season back. Dewey

[LarryBeggs]

Bobcats for sure. Always liked them the best.Type of dog it takes to catch cats much more pleasant to hunt.Mutch better race to listen to.When I was real small I remember dad had mostly bear dogs.About the time I was old enough to walk to a tree till my early twentys we had dogs we caught a lot of cat with. For some of that time we had some dogs that were pretty good at both.For about 8 years after that till measeure eighteen passed we had dogs that wer pretty much just bear dogs.Had a lot of fun but always missed the cat hunting. Been 16 years of trying to make cat dogs since measure 18 passed Just now starting to catch enough to feel good about my dogs.Still have a ways to go to gat back to what my dad had when I was a kid.Enjoyed every bit of it though,except maybe some of the long coyote races.Never realy missed the bear hunting that much.Cat hunting much bigger challenge.

[july_hound]

i hunt rabbit/coon/fox both red and grey/yotes and bobs.. but im about to quit the bobs... fount out it was good too tree 3 out of 10 and my hat goes off to you boys for that

anywho..... its a tough decision on which one i like the best.. but normally my "yote" dogs will run the reds/greys/and yotes.. some guys get into teachin one only too run yotes the others to run fox i personally just broke them off of everything else.. if they strike up on one of the 3 im happy.. ha.. yotes run out alot.. greys normally get caught alot so there not that fun.. and reds they run weird to me... they'll run circles then be line and back track and do all kinds of stuff.. but idc wat anyone says.. theres nothing better than decent locate that is rolled over to a tree.. i love to here dogs tree except when there extremely deep and theres no drive around lol

[DC DOGGIN]

I like to run grey fox cause most of the time you get a dandy race!! And they tend to run a tighter pattern so you can often sit up on top of a mountain and listen to the majority of the race. Some tree in 15 min and some run for 2 hours and tree.

[George Streepy]

I don't think anything compares to a good old bobcat race. Although there are some easy ones, when you get a cat that likes to run it can be a lot of fun. I remember the first time I saw one cross the road in front of the dogs. It wouldn't have mattered if we caught it or not. The veteran hounder I was hunting with saw the look on my face and said "your hooked!" He was right.

I have tagged along on some bear hunts, do a little cougar and coon hunting, but nothing I have done is as exciting good bobcat race.

[mefishme1234]

i just like hearing tha hounds work...

[jkcasey]

Without a doubt hogs. Nothing gets my blood going like a good hogs bay. The sights, the sounds, the SMELL, and the squeal. You just got to love it.

[wanchese]

love hog hunting and bear hunting but deer doggin aint bad either. dont realy have a favorite

[Marshall]

I have never been hog hunting..... That sounds like fun! We supposedly have some here in eastern oregon but, I have not made it that way to check it out.

The reason i love to run bobcat is when i turn loose the dogs i usually get out and go with them just for the simple fact that i love being within hearing distance (if thats possible) of the dogs and listen to that good ol mountian music, and i get to learn just how tricky these lil dudes are. Some of my favorite tricks are where they make about a 300 yd circle and walk track for track back down there own track and take that backwards for a bit and then split off and let me tell you that you have a bunch of luck on your side if those dogs dont backtrack past where he split off. There is one cat that i have ran a few times and every time i run him he either runs in coyote tracks and the dogs know thats a no no or goes where deer have been bedded down and then fallows one of their tracks out. I had a dog that would run the deer but i gave her a few talks with jesus and now she dont want to do that anymore . Most of the other stuff that i have ran pretty much lines out real fast and is not as much of a chess match if you know what im sayin. I have never ran fox and i hear thats a hoot so i think im gonna try that this year.

Thanks for the reply's guy's. I was just curious

[jimm]

Bobcats would be my favorite. I night-hunted them exclusively for years before I got into hounds.

There are a lot of dumb bobcats and a lot of very smart bobcats. The smart bobcats are where the fun is at. Funner races for me, as you can see your dogs running
that bobs crazy path. When it all comes together and you get one, it is well worth it.

[dubl_t]

my dogs will be lucky if they get to smell a cat this winter cuz they will be too busy looking for trash,

jimmy

LOL, well put. I'm in the same boat. But I was out excercizing my hound the other evening, roading her. And something definitely caught her nose. She hit the brakes, and spun hard down into the ditch to check out a culvert. She hunted both sides of the culvert and circled about a 20yd area. Even though she couldn't trail it, I was pretty impressed. Usually with deer or elk, she runs up and down the road then cuts into the timber, so I really think it was a shorttail.

Or at least I hope.

[coadycurbow]

I love hogs! It takes a more specialized dog to strike a cold hog track than people think. Hogs don't have any glands on their feet. An good experienced dog will start a track by smelling the ground, as well as bushes and trees about 18" off the ground.

When jumped, a hog may run for hours straight away, duck and dive in a 20 acre thicket, or stand and fight.

There is nothing like baying a group of hogs. The hogs chattering can sometimes match the intensity of the baying dogs. We don't bay many groups anymore, they usually scatter like a covey of quail.

PS. We trash on a bobcat occasionally, and those are some good races. (I quit whipping dogs because they are running cats. Getting soft in my old age. LOL)

[perk]

Nothing better in my mind than listening too a good pack of dogs in a grey fox chase.
Perk