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How many guys out there have had experience running Lynx? I think it would be really interesting too see or at least hear about how they measure up to bobcats in terms of race style and catch percentages. They say they can generally be even tougher then bobcats but I dont have any experience running bobs? Any one?

I ran one by accident. It was a 10 hr race, run and jump all day. If I wouldn't have been on foot, it would have been much more enjoyable. He gave the dogs a hell of a run. he ran way faster and farther than the bobs we run.

I know a guy that took his dogs up north last year and said compared to the bobs we run around here the lynx were like treeing a coon. My dad treed one in northern idaho and said the same thing. Ive heard people say they are tuff but i think it depends on the dogs you are putting on them.

jc

I sure have heard a huge variation of reports. I have never run one, but was trying to research it one time. On a Canadian government website it said a man could run one down????!!! I have never heard anyone verify that so.... what in the world?

I dont think there are any states in the lower 48 where they can be fooled with.

I have no experiance with Bobbers so I can't compare but there is one thing I will guarentee, that no hound can put up lynx consistanty in all snow conditions. As soon as you have a bit of a crust on the snow or time for the rabbit tracks to set up, them lynx will trot all day and you dogs will get farther behind. In 12 inches of snow or less the success rate would be the same as bobbers. This season with the deep crusted snow we had here there was little hope of putting them up. They definately know all the tricks , like getting on the dog tracks and making time in the opposite direction. I think running lynx in the southern part of their range may be easier as the bobcats manage to survive quite well . the northern sections of Bobcat range contain lots of lynx and the bobcat has a tougher time surviving due to the snow conditions.

I accidentally ran a lynx once, and in the 10 or so years of following dogs, has to be one of the longer races. They are neat critters though, jumped from tree to tree like a squirrel.

Why was the race so long, was the snow frozen where the cat was running on top and the dogs were braking thru . That would deffently be a problem , anything besides that and i cant imagin them being a problem. IF you have a cat dog .

JC

It was just a cat track turn the dogs out and don't see them until the tree. I guess I don't quite understand what a "Cat Dog" is? The conditions were probable 8 inches of snow. fairly fresh snow, not the frozen, crusty conditions. I think the cat had some time to move, I seen a squirel kill and a snowshoe kill along the way.

I treed a lynx once on accident, we though we were turning out on a large tom cougar and then realized itm was a lynx when we saw it cross the road, we never see them around here so after further insoection we noticed the tuft of hair that is noticeable in a lynx track, it was definately a different race than a bobcat and much tougher for the dogs to figure out but we finally caught it. He was big, I don't know how to guess weights very well but he was bigger than the biggest bobcat I ever caught and he weighed 41 lbs, I would guess he was aNOTHER 10-12 lbs heavier easily. Definately a neat looking cat, I wish they were legal because I would have one very nice mount, it was tough to leave it there, especially nver having seen one before.

The lynx look a lot heavier then they are, a big tom goes around 30 lbs, although I have heard of the legendary 40lbs, I have yet to witness one. Going from tree to tree is not uncommon if you are in a spruce swamp. The dogs hardly have a chance to see the cat and often miss the jump if they stay hard on the wood. This is where a sitdown tree hound pay for themselves.