No snow should a guy resort to chasing coons

[Eagle Nest]

I was wondering since we can't seem to get any good snow this winter if any body hunts coons in the winter in Montana. I have a pup that needs to see some bobcats or lions but when it doesn't snow theres not much to go hunt.

[Warner5]

If you can catch a coon w/o snow. Then why not a cat? J.W.

[jason]

Yeah I coon in Montana during the winter. has also seemed to me that if the temp was above freezing some will be moving around.

[hamilton10]

Why do you need snow to hunt cats?

[bluedogs]

rig your dogs or road them for cats if ya aint got snow or go huntin with someone who has dogs who can rig a cat, shoot if i only hunted the snow here i would only get to hunt maybe a week out of the year lol

[twist]

Hate to jump in on a post but for catching bobcats in the area eagle nest is at isnt going to happen to often without snow unless you happen to free cast and get one jumped. I have been hunting this area for 30 yrs and there isnt a dog out there that can rig one here on a consistant basis not enough roads and no vegatation to hold scent and ussually to dry and cold and ground is for most part frozen making scent conditions poor. Andy

[Jordan Run Walkers]

Free casting is the normal way we huntem here in Va. Haven't had hardly any snow here since the first of the yr. We have had a few mornings with frost on the ground and that certainly helps trailing conditions.