open or silent

[Big Mike]

I prefer an open trailer but a silent one will probably catch more game. I was lion hunting with an old lion hunter and we were trailing a lion and the dogs were at a loss. We sat there on our mules watching the old dogs working to figure out the track. While we were watching them a couple on 1-2 year old dogs were way in front of the rest not opening but you could tell they were trailing by there actions. He said those young dogs got the track up there and sure enough the old dogs figured it out and trailed to where the young dogs were. He told the reason the young dogs were in front was because they were keeping there nose to the ground and trailing silent. The old dogs when they hit a scent lift there heads and ball which can cause them to lose the track and have to go back and start it when its at a hard place. I wasnt convinced at the time but since them I have paid attention to this and found it to be true.

Also lions that have been caught and released learn when they here the hounds coming to start making tracks. Where a silent trailer just shows up at there front door and boom the lions will bay or tree.

This is with lions but I think the same would hold true with bobcats.

This old lion hunter I was with was talking to Roy Mcbride and ask him when he figured out a silent trailer would catch more lions. Roy said "a long time ago"

[Dan Edwards]

half lab half plott

Who is your daddy, Robert Kemmer? HAHA!

Thats just a little inside joke. Seriously, take no offense to that, it has nothin to do with you sir.

[Lil Joes BigGame hounds]

No offense taken It was just an accedent that made a real good dog. I tryed to make a simular cross but it was a major failure. I guess the second lab wasnt worthless enough