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Hello there. I live in redmond ore. Kinda desert country. We havent had harley any snow this year and its killin me. I have 1 good seasond dog and two pups. Been realy hard latley now haven that snow. even when we did I couldnt find a track to save my life. Ole Tater would strike here and there but was all deer. Drove me nuts. Anyhow hello

welcome in to the hound world. i run hounds down in lapine. we have had the same prblem.

thats ok I have to dogs as soon as you get to timber they start barking lots of fun

Have you central oregon guys had any luck yet? I spent half a day yesterday cold tracking one and finally treed it down in a nasty hole. It had a ringtail. I guess that's what happens when you start them out coon hunting as pups. I think the old straight cat hunters would probably laugh at me, but I like to hunt whatever when I can. I can usually tell when their running a coon, but this one lived in some rough country. Have you guys ever hunted around Fossil any, I used to work there and its should be some good country. Little bit of drive, but theres some pretty good folks out off Highway 19 that would probably let a guy hunt.

hell no! for you guys on the westside dont waist your time making the drive over here. I have ben roading my dogs alot and i have not had one single strike and about the only exitement i have had is when my dogs stuck thier noses in the air and about a hundred yards down the road a few elk had crossed so i got to get out and remind them that its not a good deal to even look that direction. That pretty much sums up my hunting for the winter!

Whats the deal over there. I know you haven't had the snow but there should be some cats somewhere. Do you guys ever hunt any of the ranches over there where theres not many hunters? Is the population pretty low now?

ther is a lot of people hunting and the cat numbers are down from what i have heard.

there are a ton of people here this year as a matter of fact i have seen oh id say close to a dozen other hounders in the woods that ive never met and in the previous 3 years i have only seen one combined and i happened to know em. there are not too many people that will let you hunt thier land and the ranches that are around here arent that big so its kinda pointless. the last fresh snow we had i had to work but when i got home the wife had everything loaded in the truck with some food and a thermous to go and i found four cat tracks and all had ben let out on and then to top it off i saw three other rigs so i had enough and went home. thats how things have ben goin. how bout you guys?

its geting more and more that way. a couple years ago i hunted here and only seen a couple rigs all year then this year its hard to find a road that a rig has not gone down it allready. have you hunted up high at all this year? where do you start geting in the snow at?

top of davis mtn or paluina but both places i have run into those critters tracks that odfw says arent here (wolves) so i aint runnin my dogs around there anymore. had a debate as to what kinda tracks they were so i put a honest dog down on a leash and i aint never seen that dog head for the truck so fast draggin my big ass along. so no matter what they tell you, THEY ARE HERE!

ya know they say big foot will cause dogs to do that lol, I have seen somelarge tracks in the now this year up high. That yote would not be leaving and there has not been house or hound dogs in the area..

southern dix wrote:top of davis mtn or paluina but both places i have run into those critters tracks that odfw says arent here (wolves) so i aint runnin my dogs around there anymore. had a debate as to what kinda tracks they were so i put a honest dog down on a leash and i aint never seen that dog head for the truck so fast draggin my big ass along. so no matter what they tell you, THEY ARE HERE!

I was wondering about that. Wonder how many are in the cascades? Sad thing is, Oregon is gonna be the worst state to deal with it. At least in Idaho their killing a few of them.

yeah this was up by mt hood forest where i seen the tracks

they had a article in the local paper about a week or so ago about people finding thier tracks and seeing them this last summer exactly where i found one of those tracks. I was driving home from work the other day and a bioligist was sitting on the side of hwy 97 with all his tracking gear out pointing it to the SE side of paluina where a friend of mine just got through telling me he saw some wolf tracks up there. So i call odfw and ask whats goin on and they tell me that they are tracking deer and i said well you know that the deer have ben gone for awhile now and that the snow was way too deep for them to be up there anyhow. I ask are they tracking wolfs and she got verry defensive and said no,no,no there are none of them around here. I call BULLSHIT i have seen the proof so they can tell me all they want and if something happens to my dogs like those pics that were on here for a short while then there will be absolute hell to pay if i ever see any of them.

Yota dawger
Besides that, how is the hunting up that way? Sounds like central Or is the hub.