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Since terrain and hunting styles vary, there is no one best sled for hound hunting. If you want to confine yourself to the groomed trails, air cooled or shorter tracked sleds may do you well. But if you have to bust your own trail through deep powder and steep country to get to an area you want to hunt, you're going to need the extra traction and horse power of a powder sled to get you there around here.

I wouldn't own anything less than a 151" track for the way I hunt. I also wouldn't consider strapping a dog box to my sled, too awkward and top heavy if you have to sidehill. I also don't like to be weighed down by big heavy detachable pull behind dog sleds that can carry 4 to 6 dogs that I see some guys using, they are just too difficult to pull where I need to go even with a powder sled.

Nah, give me a long tracked high performance powder sled with a light, detachable 2 dog sled, and I'll show you some cats.

Come on kevin I hunt same places you do and can get my 136 and 4 dogs up them nasty places im sure your thinking about just gotta know how to ride although them longer tracks sure are sexy

this is my set up , not the best but it sure works good . I use a bank or stump to load it.

Here is a set up I started on last year, a like the dog crate cause it is light, will test it this year.

rigit wrote:Come on kevin I hunt same places you do and can get my 136 and 4 dogs up them nasty places im sure your thinking about just gotta know how to ride although them longer tracks sure are sexy

You know rigit, I suspect I was dragging around a box full of hounds in these hills when you were still dragging around a diaper full of shit!

Kevin D wrote:

rigit wrote:Come on kevin I hunt same places you do and can get my 136 and 4 dogs up them nasty places im sure your thinking about just gotta know how to ride although them longer tracks sure are sexy

You know rigit, I suspect I was dragging around a box full of hounds in these hills when you were still dragging around a diaper full of shit!

Maybe now it works both ways im dragging hounds around and your the one dragging the shitty diaper around ya old fart jk I dont even know you just know of you im sirprised we aint met sounds like you get out alot im sure we will meet on the trail some time since we hunt the same great cache valley I heard you drew fall cache bear? If so you have any luck?

One thing that we have found is the liquid cooled machines can a bit of a liability when the snow starts going, you end up running some dry patches between what is left or we get a winter rain and then you are running ice. The machines can over heat and it seems the fan cooled 440-550's seem to be a little more suited for longterm survivability of the motor. Happy hunting, Casey