Question for all you ol timers

[Nolte]

I never got to experience the old days, but I sure have got to listen about it from the old guys around here.

First and this is what they ALWAYS tell me, they HUNTED for one dang bear track. They'd check 30-40 baits and all the sand they could for ONE track. And they usually found it on the brink of one of the hell-holes. You sure didn't pass it up.

Second, they spent a LOT of times looking for lost dogs. If one got away on you, you'd stop and listen, look for tracks, circle the block, or sit on each side and watch and wait. The dogs had a lot better homing instinct but it still wasn't automatic. If you lost one, you'd toss out a shirt or jacket and come back.

If that didn't work, you'd just wait until somebody called. You'd routinely lose dogs for days or weeks at a time. No one was ever worried about somebody stealing them. Most of the time they eventually made their way back. Granted a few got lost and never came back or stolen, but it wasn't that common.

[oregontanman]

from then to now well there were more game as most animals were considered predators with bounties and no closed season and they breed for tree dogs if they didn't stay half day they weren't breed too or kept to long plus the main thing is population of sprawling farms and private tracks of land but its still no reason to stop hound hunting it will have to get way worse than this for me to quit