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Which do you prefer my buddy who prefers those overgrown beagles likes to hunt at night I like to hunt in the day for Bobcats personally and my other questions is how do you train a bobcat hound to trail is it the same as a coon hounds or are there different procedures

My opinion only, takes a better dog to catch regular in day time.

davidg1! wrote:My opinion only, takes a better dog to catch regular in day time.

Yeah I agree but the night hunters have to rely on the gps a lot more tho

Night time is almost always better hunting because there's more game moving.You can usually strike better tracks and more of them .Daytime is more difficult but a lot more enjoyable.After hunting days and nights for many ,many years i've decided to give up the night hunting ..

Ok and my third question is do coon hound pups make good bobcat hounds cause the sore and dam to the pup I'm going to get are coon hounds that sometimes tree Bobcats would they be cold nosed enough for Bobcats

I prefer to hunt in the daytime. That being said,alot of the time storms dictate what time of day or night i hunt. Have never really been able to prove to myself if a cat is harder or easier to catch in the daylight or dark. As far as for when cats move, thats a crap shoot only the cat knows. After a lifetime of hunting,playing,and working in the woods i will say that i think i have seen as many cats cross the road in front of me coming home in the middle of the day as i have going to work in the mornings in the head lights. They move when they move. As for hunting at night and needing to rely on GPS more,i guess i disagree because i have hunted far more years without it than i have with it and dont see where its that big of deal. If you need to see the dogs to know what they are doing you are missing the point of running hounds. This is all just an opinion based on a few years of the skool of hard knocks.

Yeah I agree with you mark but my friends hounds aren't totally trash proof yet and he wants to be able to find them if they run out of the country

When i said cat hunting is more difficult in the day time i meant you strike more old cold tracks than you do at night,at least i always did.Cat aren't any harder to tree than they are at night.As far as getting a pup from bear dogs to cat hunt that could be a crap shoot unless some of its ancestors were cat hunted.I can't say the pup won't make a cat dog but your odds are a lot longer .Locating could be a problem as well as track style but in any case good luck .

1bluedawg the pups parents are Hunted on Bobcats and coon sorry it was a typo

If you're state allows you to hunt bobcat yes it's better because they are out way more at night then in the day you will get on a lot more fresher tracks at night and older cold trailing in the day with that being said I start all my big game hounds on Bobcats it helps them locate better and bobcats are the hardest to catch with that being said the type of hound I look for is a tite footed small hound 30to 40 pounds with long ears and loose slobbering jaws the younger the better the longer I've done this the more I realized that most hound hunter ruin dogs
I train my pups with sent on a walking stick not a drag and the haging it in a tree this will get you're pup to tree on smell instead of site hope this helps

Britchy what's your theory on long ears and loose slobing jaws? Andy

Long ears and slobbering jaws make it a hound Andy! Them other dogs , well they look like bird dogs... Sorry couldn't help myself

Pegleg is was just thinking to hard I guess lol

twist wrote:Pegleg is was just thinking to hard I guess lol

I have to admit my best cat dogs have had longer ears then their littermates. I'm not saying they were all long eared by most measurements and all that . but it is weird some similarities that cat dogs have. The only exceptions are the real heavy built hounds along the lines of the thick bodies of bloodhounds or the real heavy specimens of some breeds. There's just a certain athletic ability required to make a cat dog in most areas . but I'm not stuck on small dogs by any stretch. I've got some large hounds that do well. And in the spirit of full disclosure there is a walker dog in my kennels. Just don't let anyone know.