How many fresh tracks per day in fresh snow?

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How many fresh tracks per day in fresh snow?

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Ok lion hunters. Just wondering what is normal in different places. How many fresh lion tracks can you expect to find in your area after a fresh snow?
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Was out a couple days ago looking to see where the kittys where. Our season opens Monday. I found 6 tracks, all public land. One female with two kittens so actually I found four different sets of tracks. One tom. This was in about an hour and a half.
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Dean that is outstanding.
I usually can find 2 or three a day if I am on my sled, If I am in my truck maybe one as I donlt have much of a road system in this country.
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One - because once I find a fresh track, I turn the dogs loose. Kinda hard to train dogs for lions if you spend the day driving around looking for more fresh tracks!

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1 trackevery two to three days out down here in utah.and that is when I take an enorauge with me. it didn't always used to be that way though. could at least find one or two each time out in the good ol days.
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One in two days.
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We generally only find one per trip out. Never look for more than that. Occasoinally we will pass on a lion track to look for a bobber, but not very often.

Last year we only went once or twice without cutting a track.

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Depends we usualy run the first one we cut but can usualy run one.
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saw three today but on a average 1 to 2 we have to pass on them here in Oregon
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1 track per two day of beating the sh!t out of your truck and someone has ussually put down on it by the time I find it. Thats why i switched to mules and dirt!!
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i found 3 sets yesterday looking over some ground i havent been to in a couple years to bad we cant run lions in oregon
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007pennpal wrote:Ok lion hunters. Just wondering what is normal in different places. How many fresh lion tracks can you expect to find in your area after a fresh snow?
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Wow, I sure am envious of all you guys having so much luck cutting fresh tracks every day. We just don't have that many lions up here in this north country. Typically in the early season when we can run a lot of country out we can cut a track a day, but I'd be hard pressed to say a freshy a day. Once the winter range closures take effect and the snow piles up azz deep to a tall indian, they get hard to dig out!
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snakerivercatman wrote:
007pennpal wrote:Ok lion hunters. Just wondering what is normal in different places. How many fresh lion tracks can you expect to find in your area after a fresh snow?
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Wow, I sure am envious of all you guys having so much luck cutting fresh tracks every day. We just don't have that many lions up here in this north country. Typically in the early season when we can run a lot of country out we can cut a track a day, but I'd be hard pressed to say a freshy a day. Once the winter range closures take effect and the snow piles up azz deep to a tall indian, they get hard to dig out!


I guess I should have been more specific, We can cut a track to run most every time we go out, not always a "fresh" one though. They generally fresh enough to make the dogs bark, but not always catch.

Mike, how often do you find something to run by freecasting off mules?

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1 every two days when things are good, have run 28 days out of the month of Jan 4 yrs ago and cut nothing the whole month, have had weeks with a lion every day. average probably comes out to 2 a week
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1 track every 2-3 times out, if were lucky.
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