training pups to cold trail

[al baldwin]

Times two MARK! Al

[dwalton]

The tools we have today makes hound training easy. If I read the post right you said the dogs not the pup went out 2 miles without opening ? If that was is so, I would read the track completely different. I have two rules that I follow and tell the young guys when you really understand them you are on your way to becoming a cat hunter. One don't roll down your window listening to dogs and make up a story as to what is happening and two the dogs hunt with me I don't hunt with the dogs. Good hunting Dewey

[mark]

I wish you hadn't told me that Dewey! I have turned some real Shit Shows into outstanding hunts from the window. Lmao

[twist]

If I didn't make up stories I'd never catch anything. Plus I don't burn near the gas lol. Andy

[al baldwin]

The tools we have today makes hound training easy. If I read the post right you said the dogs not the pup went out 2 miles without opening ? If that was is so, I would read the track completely different. I have two rules that I follow and tell the young guys when you really understand them you are on your way to becoming a cat hunter. One don't roll down your window listening to dogs and make up a story as to what is happening and two the dogs hunt with me I don't hunt with the dogs. Good hunting Dewey

No Dewey you are reading it wrong. Those two dogs were opening here and there, not a lot. The wind was blowing & they got out on the other dogs. I did not roll down the window , they trailed up a skull ridge & dropped into another drainage. I am surprised the distance you have stated you have trailed, you would think a couple mile is a long ways to trail. I know I have trailed bobcat further than that more than once. There was no pups with those two dogs. Those dogs do hunt with us, it is not uncommon for log & those others to hunt out half mile or so and if no track is found, they are good about coming back to us. I have noticed they do hunt out like that more since we got log, if you doubt me ask Tom. A pup & Tom young dog went out with log about 7 hundred yards sunday searching for a track off an almost nothing smell. L og don/t just hunt a straight line, on the garmin he hunts the area out. He is not a great cat dog, but he will certainly goes looking when he gets a little smell & Tom tells me he has caught cats he may not have caught without log. He can be independent to a fault, is not a good locator, but a very calm dog, great mouth, some days looks like a high dollar dog, then can look bad on some. He seems to do his best work when he gets the lead, he can seem to lose some interest if the others get a lead on him. He is cut & Don Gilbert gave him to me so was not trying to talk a new stud dog. Tom & I both like him, if we let them out to hunt out those spur roads, he is always the last dog back, but more than once he drifted out & found a track. He has been very reliable to start cat after Tom lite him up for coon. He is not for sale & I have told Tom he is not leaving us, Tom said that is good to know. We plan to keep working on some areas, Don did not own him very long. Heck Dewey, recall George Nelson telling me his dogs hunted out farther to clean out. Al

[dwalton]

Someone was opening on the track. Them they were working a cat track. I did read it wrong I thought they were just out there searching for the cat track but they actually had a track. Log just did not open on it? As you know sometimes they just can't complete them. Good hunting Dewey

[al baldwin]

Dewey Log & Maggie both opened some on that long trail job, but not a lot. It was a low percent track from the beginning, but has you know some of them pan out. Andy you need to get out of that snow more often. We have a limited area to hu nt and have to let the dogs work what they find, would think it would be no different than you finding a snow in track & having to work it. Excent you can see a track to head them in the right direction, we have to hope they are going to find the correct end Al

[mondomuttruner]

Don't be afraid of the snow like Mark is Al..

[fallriverwalker1]

mondo where did you get that baby picture of mark //

[mondomuttruner]

He was an internet sensation back in the day and never knew it.

[twist]

Now that's just plain funny lol. Andy

[mark]

Mondo on his wedding day....... Nice hound!