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Willy

No I'm not, i just got back to the house!

I have found one can have some very decent hounds when catching 10, 15 or twenty cats a season. While only catching those numbers the dogs can get lots of experience at working numerous other tracks that just plain beat them on a jump, older track than never goes any place or dog wise cat that that keeps enough distance between cat & hounds to prevent a serious threat to the cats safety. Here I refer to a cat that hears a dog open & moves out keeping the hounds trailing. This is where a silent hound has an advantage, but that has never been much fun to me. I know the cat population is this area has forced some of the cat hunters to run gray fox. A hunter that works a full time job, finds family time & catches 20 cats a season in this area in my opinion has done well. Al

I was talking with a gentleman today. Who claimed to be from the northwestern part of the United States. Said that he spent most of his time between Oregon and Washington. He also made the claim that there are many mountain ranges that have drainages that come from the high country down into the low country. That if you set up a blind typically like most do for deer hunting when the heavy snows come in the high country. That the Bobcat come out of those mountain ranges similar to the way caribou migrate! Fella told me most times when the snows are bad shooting those bobcats was sort of like shooting at shooting gallery. I called BS and told him I would check with a lot of guys on this forum about it. I told him that a lot of guys from up in that country were having a hard time running them with their hounds. He just laughed. I told him a matter of fact, they were talking about the population of bobcats on this forum today and I would double check and get back to him.

Take care, Willie

Willie calling BS was correct in my opinion! Al

It happens Willy,and if you leave that blind right where you set it up in the winter, you can come back in the spring and do the same thing on their way back up!

mark wrote:It happens Willy,and if you leave that blind right where you set it up in the winter, you can come back in the spring and do the same thing on their way back up!

Mark,

:lol

Hope ya get drawn!!!

Take care,willie

P.S. I'll tell that gentleman that i spoke to someone that was very familiar with the whole process!!! Good night!


Unreal,

Thanks for the pictures, you really have some beautiful country to hunt in. And there's no better way to get around in it, than in that saddle that you are in.

Take care, Willie

Yes it is, only get to ride when I bribe a friend to take me in, usually have to walk!

Where do you live in MO?

One of my hunting buddy's were just talking about the Mark Twain this past week while hunting.

In 6 days last week, from Wednesday till this past Tuesday, we ran 16 cats from 25 minutes to up to 2 hours plus. Caught 5 on ground, treed at two in big pines that we could not find the cat, but dogs could not find any track out of that area?

We have been hunting SE Oklahoma, and your welcome to come and hunt with us sometime?

SW Oklahoma has been so dry that even when you strike track, dogs cannot run them in most cases. However Johnny B. & Hootie S. did catch one on ground Saturday night. But, they had hunted for five nights and found only that one track. Hootie told me that he drove over 600 miles!

To hunt the area we are hunting, highly recommend the Astro-100 with Birdseye. If not, you will be lost most of the time on all the roads.

Anyway, get back with me if you want to make a hunt in our country?

Clyde Lawson 918-850-3421
ccwlawson@aol.com

a buddy of mine have talked alot about this, bobcat populations spike and drop in cycles it seems, in northeast washington between 2000-2007 we averaged seeing 5.3 different bobcat tracks a day in our unit, from 2008-2011 we averaged seeing 1.3 a day! We traveled the exact same roads each day covering our unit! Hound hunting and trapping were not a factor since for the most part is outlawed, I really believe you just to keep hunting the bad days and you will appreciate the good days even more!

PIGLET wrote:a buddy of mine have talked alot about this, bobcat populations spike and drop in cycles it seems, in northeast washington between 2000-2007 we averaged seeing 5.3 different bobcat tracks a day in our unit, from 2008-2011 we averaged seeing 1.3 a day! We traveled the exact same roads each day covering our unit! Hound hunting and trapping were not a factor since for the most part is outlawed, I really believe you just to keep hunting the bad days and you will appreciate the good days even more!

Thanks for information.

And makes a lot of sense. For the last few years, area of SW Oklahoma has been "hot spot" with lots of cats. Now strikes, tracks, & sightings are really down. Hunting friends hunted 5 days and over 600 miles--struck one cat?

Where in SE Oklahoma I ran 16 in 6 days(could have re-run some of the same cats 1-3 days later), but don't really think so. Cat ran different and went different directions, but on dry ground--you will never know.

Thanks again.