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When do you prefer to cat hunt day or night And have you noticed cats run harder at night? Interesting to hear opinion. Have did some night hunting, but not enough to have an educated opinion. Al

I prefer day mostly because of long walks through wet brush in steep ground at night is not my idea of having a good time. And yes, it seems like cats will run harder at night (or the dogs can't run them as hard) especially if there is no moonlight. Open ground I doubt if it matters much.

I pefer hunting in the day time but I do most of my hunting at night. Just shows how smart I am. Where i hunt I seem to have alot easier time getting on them at night. They do seem to run longer at night .I think because your not jumping them out of there bed as often stiff and with a full bell. I sure enjoy being able to see better what is going on and how the country lays in the daytime.Last Friday night when I was standing there with multiple layers on and it still feeling like I was wearing a t-shirt it would sure have been nice to have a little sun.Another advantage at night is a few less people out running around.I did make a long walk that wasnt necessary one night this winter because I pulled the wrong ridge out of the bottom and came out miles from the truck. A mistake I would like to think I wouldnt have made in the daylight. With all the dug up forest service roads where I hunt and me getting older the canyons that used to seem small are starting to look huge especialy at night. A lot of pros and cons to both.

I always liked to cat hunt more at night. I seem to be able to get on more cats. The cons outweigh the pros. Harder to keep a good handle on your dogs. Unless you know the country very well it is not as advisable to hunt nights. Harder like Larry says to navigate with the same ease as day time hunting. Garmin has solved many of the associated problems.You can get away with hunting a trashy young hound more in the daytime given the nocturnal nature of Porcupines, opossums,skunks, coons etc. The pros. Most guys struggle to keep the dogs on cats and only hunt daytime and snow.Pretty cool to hunt all night and not bump into any other hunters looking for the same cats as you.

Central and Eastern Oregon and the more open areas the dogs seem able to push a cat just as hard in the dark as day time but when you hunt the brush on the west side or coast, I think the dogs don't run quite the same at night as the do in the daytime to me is why the cats seem to run farther at night.One of the reasons for me quitting the night time cat hunting is because most of our remaining cats are on the fringe of gated areas walk in only or bluffs.

I prefer the day light because that is the only time they can be hunted in our state but a bobcat dog will catch them day or night it does not matter. Andy

Heh, I just got in from hunting tonight. Hunting off snowmobile in the dark is a challenge. I found a track of a kitten in my old track from Sunday, followed it a good ways and it was mighty hard to spot that track as it went down mine. Finally stepped out for awhile, turned my two trash runners loose. She took it awhile, and trailed it to another track of mine.... and I lost it there. Still scratchin my head on it.

If its a fresh snow and in the truck, I prefer hunting at night when everything is moving, and you can cut country in a hurry. Older snow I prefer daylight because it makes checking the track easier for me. As far as dogs go, they run it about the same either way as long as the temp stays steady... 20 to 30 degrees, below 20 seems to freeze tracks up in a hurry(not saying its impossible, but does put a barrier up).

I am just a rookie, ill shutup now.