In Washington state hound hunting is pretty much dead. We lost bear, bobcat and lion with hounds in 96 due to a voter initiative from the city folks. We got back catching cougars with a drawing in 5 counties a few years ago but your chances of getting drawn are about once every 6 years. The game ...

In Washington state we have a few totally deaf hound hunters and the gps is the absolute only way they can track their dogs. They have tried the beeper type but can't hear and the needle reading is not reliable but the gps is invaluable. I think the group that represents handicapped folks might be ...

Pegleg, You said it way better than me. AMEN. Hillbilly

Had anuther thot on this subject. Most of us now have wolves in our huntin area and we all are willin to take a little chance that we can catch a lion or bear and not get our pack wiped out. We all know them wolves have one thang on their minds and that's to kill and eat every dog we got. We still ...

This is a tuffer question than you think. Human friendship is extremely important to all of us and Our Creator. I have several outstanding dogs I'm looking forward to seeing in Heaven and renewing our friendships and hunting. I've spent years training any good dogs I've had but if one of my friends ...

The trx6 is lots handier because the antenna is made onto the small tracker unit. It's not nearly as powerful as the 1000. It's o.k. around a mile or so but if you are on a long bear chase you'll have to drag out the 1000. It's no better about directional than the 1000 either. I have never been ...

Just talked to the attorney handling this case and he would prefer that folks not mail him the donations but mail them to me instead. He doesn't like having to answer to every single person on how much time he spent, which day, etc, etc. So if you haven't already made a donation to this just mail ...

I won't be able to make the March mtg. in Ellensburg the Game Commission is having to discuss and likely eliminate hound hunting for coyotes. I typed a letter and will send it as an attachment to anybody that's going if your willing to read it to them for me. Otherwise, I'll try to figure out how to ...

I saw that mentioned when I read the upcoming proposed hunting seasons. They said that they are going to recommend eliminating hound hunting coyotes because "the public sentiment is that canids shouldn't be chaseing canids". This is a bunch of hogwash for sure. This will only appease the animal ...

Nobody never did answer houndcrazys question. He ask about what to use over the wool to keep it dry. I use wool pants too and buy this spray on stuff called PermaDry that you spray on anything and it puts an invisible coat of waterproff on. My old junker snowmobile has the seat all busted up and the ...

Hey Buzz, the problem with only giving draw permits is the WDFW don't make as much money on that. They make a ton of money on the boot hunters selling all of them a cat tag and the chances of them gettin a lion is about 1 in 100,000 so the return is huge. Although, the draw system is excellent in ...

Darvin, If the quota is filled by law you can only pursue in that county if you got drawed for a kill permit. If your local and didn't get drawn you can only hunt coyotes and coons so remember that when you get stopped. I agree with Buzz about not shooting female lions. Much like shooting does. If ...

Anybody that wood make a statement like that danged sure hadn't hunted much. Your gonna eat a lot of crow. I've seen good dogs in ever breed known to man and cross breeds too. We even have a red heeler that's a perty danged good lion dog but then got another one thats worthless on lions. Gots nothin ...

We have two dogs now with it seemed to be ear mites or something. They've had it for a few years now and I can't get anything to get it stopped. They shake their head like their trying to shake out water and do it about every 10 seconds. These are actually my boys dogs and I'd of never let this go ...

Kawt my kow dawg eatin rat poison the nuther day. Didn't worry much about it kauz it don't seem ta kill the rats. Didn't kill her neether. gotta git. Bill