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How do you guys mark you tracks? I live in south east BC. Here we hunt cats in the snow.(the fresher the snow the beter) We leave the house very early in the morning drive around in the dark till we cut a cat track. We will get out of the truck to take a better look at the track and to leave boot marks there. Now we will ethier check the next road that the cat could of crossed to try and get the freshest start or go look for another cat. Now our boot marks will hold that track for us untill about 11 or 12 that morning if we have not come back to that track by then people will start ignoring the boot marks. Now none of these rule are written any where its just what everyone has figured out over time. Just wondering how things work in other places.

you own a maroon ford 1/2 ton or white ford 1 ton crew cab ?

WOW. I never knew that kind of code existed. Around here, if you cut a cat track that you aren't going to sleep on, you had might as well give it to the guy behind you because if he's not going to cut your throat ANYWAY, then he's going to take it. The best I can do is try and ride a snowmobile over the track both ways and try and make it look like I was turning around to cover it up, if not, I try the popular "stomp" but most guys are wise to that. You are blessed to have so much "respect" in your neck of the woods.

No I own a silver f150

Ya, must be a real good group of guys there! In my area if you don't dump out on it, it aint yours and there is still a fella that might road the cat in front of you and catch it before you. O well, kinda the name of the game I figured. Sometimes we can get away with stomping out a track...... depends on the guy that's running late.

XM110

Cranbrook must be a place where gentlemen's honor is still alive. Spendid!


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If a guy wants to get technical its illegal to look for tracks in the dark as your intention is to hunt/pursue that animal, ask any BC CO.
So really, just cuz some eager guy wants to get up at 2 a.m and mark a half dozen tracks before most guys are getting going, doesn't mean its gentlemans code to 'honour' that IMO.
Quite frankly I think its unrealistic but thats just my outlook on it and you'll never need to worry about me running anything you've checked as I don't live there.

On the flip side its nice to see everyone getting along, seems to be a hard thing to do these days lol

I have hunted the Cranbrook area a few times . Not during Cat season though in fact the outfitter only offered lion hunts if he could get someone to come in with hounds . I always got the impression though that all the outfitters were VERY PROTECTIVE of their Hunting lease areas . Seems like they could NOT keep you off the property ,But then again Most did NOT stay in the Camps in the winter months

Here is my take on the subject. And this is coming from someone who hunts rather remote, nasty country all to himself. I also live in NV where its legal to hunt 24/7/365.

I leave the house around sunrise, or a little before where there are good snow conditions. I occasionally leave EARLY or hunt all night if I know there is a storm coming that day. If the conditions suck, like they do now, then I wait a little longer, and end up walking a canyon out with the dogs.

I check every road I come to. I don't care if I am hunting where someone else just was, or there are tracks there. I have been headed out of a canyon and found lion tracks in my tracks, so just because someone checked an area doesn't mean a lion didn't cross after them.

Also, if I find a lion track, and I think it is the last place it can cross that I have checked, then I put dogs loose on it. And I would do that no matter where I am hunting. If you find a small track, "mark" it with intention of coming back later if you don't find anything else, then its your loss, IMO. The dogs can't catch a lion if they're in the truck smelling each other's butts. If turning loose on a small lion means missing out on a B&C lion 20 miles away, oh well, it still smells like a cat to the dogs.

Later,

Marcial

Mike Leonard wrote:Cranbrook must be a place where gentlemen's honor is still alive. Spendid!


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not really mike, the day i killed my tom we had found a track, some boys pulled up said we stomped the track out and somebody could get hurt. they left a truck there with nobody in it,went to two other sets of tracks they said they had stomped out,after the day was over and i had killed my tom we went back to the first track and it was not even ran,thank god we left that small track to find the tom track that we did that day

we usually just rub them out or cover them up. we honestly do not have a problem with alot of hunters. we have two crews close us and one more. they are the darkside and we are the other team. we have the majority of the land we hunt leased so not to many ppl around.

cougarhound I was there that day and thats not the way I remember it.

Walk a dog around, throw some straw out like someone dumped the box, make a bit of a mess out of the area and no one will usually turn out on it. But then again if it isn't a big one I just move on, if I decide to come back later and someone has turned out on a little one that we passed over, oh well.