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by SASS
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Natural Tree or Trained to tree?
Replies: 5
Views: 215

Re: Natural Tree or Trained to tree?

In my experience the dogs I have had to "train" to tree were far less accurate than the naturals or the ones I just left alone and had patience and let them tree on their own even if it meant waiting till they were two years plus old. I believe you need to be very careful about working on ...
by SASS
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Dogs,Dogs,Dogs
Replies: 49
Views: 1366

Re: Dogs,Dogs,Dogs

The best dogs I have raised were all naturally early starting dogs. All I had to do was hunt them and brake them off any trash when needed. In my opinion it's how it's suppose to be. You shouldn't have to train or wait five years for a dog to hunt. As long as I see consistent improvement I don't get...
by SASS
Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: Bobcat/Lynx Hunting
Topic: Bobcat dog question
Replies: 6
Views: 735

Re: Bobcat dog question

Like everyone always says, a dog is worth what someone will pay for it. Things to take into consideration are is he intact? His age, being 7 he is on the decline. How broke is he? Is he broke to one species of game, or more of just a meat dog? His hunting abilities such as is he a start dog, does he...
by SASS
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945128

Re: Let’s talk.

"Well it’s 50 below this morning but no more earthquakes so far lol hopefully be warmed back up tomorrow so we can get back to hunting."


How do you keep your dogs in that kind of weather? Do you have to bring them in?
by SASS
Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Ozark Cat Hunting
Replies: 18
Views: 34191

Re: Ozark Cat Hunting

Do you have any pine plantations/timber company land around you? Are you in or near any areas that have hunting clubs? If so I have always had luck catching cats in those types of places. I know southwest Ark has plenty of cats as does most of the south you just have to have cat dogs. My advice depe...
by SASS
Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Let’s talk.
Replies: 903
Views: 945128

Re: Let’s talk.

I know the cat question wasn't for me but I do have some experience in that part of the country. When I was living in CA I hunted bobcats in NV (hunting with a friend who was a resident), OR, and just across the border in AZ and I would have in CA if it was legal. The cats definitely tree in all of ...
by SASS
Mon Nov 21, 2022 5:55 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Pure or cross bred
Replies: 21
Views: 6457

Re: Pure or cross bred

It is my opinion people have become way too loose with all the crossbreeding leading to even more junk then we already had. They think it's like mixing paint where anyone that has done this for awhile knows its not. I see it especially bad with the newer guys and their visions of grandeur, with time...
by SASS
Tue Oct 18, 2022 2:18 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”
Replies: 47
Views: 8779

Re: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”

Just like most other things in life there are levels to this stuff. And there are all different levels of hunters and dogs out there. Nothing wrong with however you would like to do it as long as the dogs are taken care of and you are enjoying yourself.
by SASS
Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:37 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”
Replies: 47
Views: 8779

Re: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”

Yup you right Perk, barking out of place is just a blanket term that covers all of those more specific things such as barking going to them, barking in the back, barking over and over on a covered track, babbling, and just not shutting up and getting to the front or shutting up on a loss. Like I sai...
by SASS
Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:38 am
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”
Replies: 47
Views: 8779

Re: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”

Renegade I watch hounds like you do and like a lot of the same things. Ol Lawdog and I was talking about some of these things the other day. The two biggest race killers when your chasing cats in my opinion is constantly overrunning tracks and barking out of place. Nothing makes me more mad then dog...
by SASS
Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:47 am
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”
Replies: 47
Views: 8779

Re: What makes a true “dog man/ woman/ hunter”

There are dogs that rig and then there is a rig dog. Very different in my opinion. I have one rig dog right now and a few dogs that will rig. If she rigs we are almost always going to have a race. We jump more rigged tracks then we do tracks started from roading. Probably because in most cases she w...
by SASS
Sun Feb 20, 2022 4:11 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Making a silent dog
Replies: 33
Views: 13666

Re: Making a silent dog

Lawdog All great points and I could understand why people would want that, and how in certain situations that would work well. To each their own, not knocking anyone else or how they like to hunt. But I look at it differently, kind of like the old Packers teams under Lombardi, with his power sweep l...
by SASS
Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Making a silent dog
Replies: 33
Views: 13666

Re: Making a silent dog

Here is my own opinion and you know what they say about those. I have run both silent and open dogs. I was always told mainly by hog hunters and people who started out as hog hunters and switched to something else how important it was that the dogs be silent. But the more I hunted big game and the m...
by SASS
Wed Dec 15, 2021 4:07 am
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: First tree dogs. Advice?
Replies: 21
Views: 8517

Re: First tree dogs. Advice?

What part of CA are you in?
by SASS
Sun Oct 24, 2021 2:34 pm
Forum: Big Game Hunting With Dogs
Topic: Long nights sore legs and young dogs!
Replies: 7
Views: 4462

Re: Long nights sore legs and young dogs!

I sure did enjoy your first post, as I went through the exact same thing when I went from hunting hogs to big game and tree game. Lots of gas and boot leather and lots of discussions with myself lol. I then finally started catching game then I moved, and started all over again hahaha. What lawdog sa...

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