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hey everyone just had a question turned out on a big tom last thursday around 8am and lost signal on 2 dogs looked for a while and had to go to work my buddy was able to get signal on them at 6pm and was treed in a nasty canyon collars were bouncing like crazy the signal was a 8 on the tracker max box with marshal collars it was dark and he couldnt get any stronger of a signal at 11pm still treed any way i went back up looking for them the next morning and got a signal same place and still treed so a was able to get close enough to here them STILL TREED got to the tree at 11am and to my surprise that big tom was still in the tree i have only heard of a dog keeping a lion treed one other time over night i just wanted to know if this has hapen to anyone else and how long has one been treed we also went up a couple days later and followed the tracks to the tree and ther was one ledge they bayed it in and that was only about 200 yards from the final tree thanks

It is very common to find your dogs treed on a lion the next day if you lost them the evening before and they were trailing or even treed when you went home. The question for you is: do you know this lion was in the same tree the next morning as he was the evening before?

Not saying he wasn't but I have seen numerous times hound treed late into the night on a lion and when that sun rolls over the mountain the next morning 9 times out of 10 the lion will bail and haul. Sometimes even before sun up but i9f the dogs are alert and not cooned up in pine needle beds they will sound the alarm and take after the cat again and if the terrain is not too tuff put him up again and be treeing with gusto when you show back up after your not in the feather bed.

Lions know their pown country very well and they will look the situation over and when they slip out they will make for bluffs, ledges or any tough terrain to detour the hounds.


I am sure some of you have spent the night at a lion tree before in the woods. You get a nice fire going and back up to log and doze off with a sleepy acting cat in the tree. About the time you get pretty warm and realxed BOOM! out goes the lion and away go the dogs and you are back to stumbling around in the dark. If you don't have a good light with you it is better to stay with your fire and tend it instead of risking a broken neck in a night time fall.