Split Bobcat Race ends with a Stolen Tom

[Rig2Tree]

Like I said my concerns are elsewhere. Good luck to you in your journey of becoming a houndsman.

[Spokerider]

What has been done has been done. Nothing constructive can come out of it now, and I suspect that you already know that.
By posting your story here, it has allowed you to vent, which is part of the process of getting over it and moving on. I do the same thing when I'm pissed off. Vent, and get it out of my system. There will be more bobs to run, as it sounds like your hounds have no trouble getting it done.

Did he steal your cat? Perhaps.
Were sound hunting ethics breached? Perhaps.
Only you and him will know for sure.

If there were a "good" side to view this from, it would be that; nobody got shot, nobody goes to jail, all got their dogs back, and one of you can take heart knowing that your hunting ethics are sound.

[matt123huntinglion]

i know 2 different people can see same deer & to one may be great big deer to other may be little deer still same deer so as told by others get over it.And have some good luck. as was said some parts seem to be left out now read 2 trucks stuck in snow split race why was one person with one pack other person with other dogs would have made a least one tree.

[Ankle Express]

Spokerider, good post. Well thought out.

[Redneck]

We had a lot of hunters in the woods this season with the cat prices up. One split race ended with one tom in a rock pile hole and the other was shot out by an ethically challenged houndsman. What a guy! Two solid hounds of mine chased a nice tom up a drainage and it treed below a cutback road. After following the first half of the split race that ended at the rock pile I got the truck stuck in the snow and had to walk father in to the second tree than otherwise necessary. It took the hounds about an hour and a half to tree that tom and they were at the tree for another two hours before the other hunter heard them from up higher. The snow tracks told the story. He had a toyota and I had a dodge so he got to my tree before me. The heavier dodge got stuck in snow where the lighter toyota didn't. So being the cat slayer that he is he shot my cat, left my hounds at my stuck truck and hauled out before I could walk my tired butt back the the truck. I can't imagine how proud the guy must have been.

Yes it was wrong but atleast he was decient enough to take your hounds back to the truck for ya and not let ya chase them through the woods

[007pennpal]

It was not decient. I was walking to the tree when he shot the cat. He also left us with two rigs stuck in the snow. The reason I hunt is to chase my hounds through the woods. Thats kinda the idea.

[Redneck]

well ya did chase them through the woods did ya not but had a messed up ending to it
dogs seen it treed it

[luckyboy]

maybe he took the cat as a reward for returning your dogs to your truck, just be glad he didnt take the dogs too. and if it was your dogs at the tree im sure that they can do it again, id scrap the dodge and get a toyota to eliminate future promblems like this.

[007pennpal]

Redneck, you are right. The older dogs did there job but my puppy didn't make either tree that day. He did come around since then though.
Luckyboy- We have toyotas also, just had the heavy trucks that day.
If I ever caught somebody stealing my dogs I'd probably go to jail IF they ever found the body.