Bobcat %

Tracker77 · Post by **Tracker77** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:30 am

I know this will have a ton of variables (location, terrain, conditions, ect) but.....
What % of bobcats turned out on do you catch? It would be nice to know just how far behind average I am.

Kevin D · Post by **Kevin D** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:40 am

Like you said there are a lot of variables, but I always figured that if you are harvesting 25% of the bobcats your dogs line out on, you have a helluva dog.......and I'll be glad to take him off your hands for you.

Tim Cook · Post by **Tim Cook** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:22 pm

Tracker77

I think alot of guys have better dogs then what they give themselves credit for, but because they here so many storys from other people bragging about there own dogs and how well they're doing and not hearing the same problem storys that we all do have

then they asume that there dogs arn't that great

northwestcat · Post by **northwestcat** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:11 pm

hunt the coast and the steep nasty crap along wa and or and have caught 22 out of the last 28 jumped cat tracks since dec1 and havent had a lion get away that they could trail dry ground and snow

Roy Auwen · Post by **Roy Auwen** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:19 pm

WOW WC!!!!

BigGameHunter · Post by **BigGameHunter** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:40 am

Funny how one year you can so good and the next year it goes to crap with the same exact dogs. Last year I'll bet I was a generous 15%. This year I am 5 for 8. I havn't found nearly as many bobers this year as last so that might have something to do with it.

TomJr · Post by **TomJr** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:06 pm

I have no idea on % because we rarly get snow here. So I almost never know what my dogs have until I get to the tree. So far this year we have only treed fox and ringtailed cats. The only bobcat I saw was in front of my dogs about 50 yards and they somehow lost it. We have also had several chases where they came back empty... My best hunters got old on me but I do have a young dog thats looking good just needs more time.

Tracker77 · Post by **Tracker77** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:34 pm

Kevin,
You won't have to worry about taking anything off of my hands, 25% is a pipe dream around my place.

BGH, are you running younger dogs that the extra year really helped, or what do you think is the difference? Maybe next year will be my year.

BigGameHunter · Post by **BigGameHunter** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:01 pm

77 I have been pretty lucky this year with conditions. Last year I ran a LOT of bobcats just didn't catch all that many. This year not so many but the conditions have been very good on the ones I have run. Also another year on the dogs certainly doesn't hurt.....not yet anyway.

Mike Leonard · Post by **Mike Leonard** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:51 pm

In the last couple of weeks I have gone 100% on the bobcats I have run. Yep, 100% failures! LOL!
If I would have had a shotgun I probably could have bagged a couple of them, but they sure didn't want to have anything to do with a tree.

These cats are pretty tough out in the rock country, and if you live in the four corners area of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and even Colorado and catch 25% or the cats you start you are damn good, or else you are damn good and not putting out on anything but a smoking hot track.

Cats don't leave much scent anytime, and their tracks turn into cold trails quickly in the high dry desert.

Wouldn't it be somthing if they had as much scent as a coyote? Wow! there wouldn't be that many left. I have dogs that can really smoke a coyote track, but then again they run a lot faster and further than a bobcat can so they have their own kind of defense I guess.

Now it makes lions seem easy doesn't it? LOL! They leave a lot of scent, they can't run fast very far like a coyote, and they climb easier when pushed. Well you say they can be pretty tough to catch at times too. I am just kidding they can be tough anytime, and around here the really tuff part is finding one's track. We have so many local hunters that have their walls adorned with the hides of female cougars that the breeding population is shall we say, none too numerous.

pete richardson · Post by **pete richardson** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:22 am

i consider it a miracle- anytime i catch a bobcat -- lol

once in a great while i run across a retard - or get super lucky

Post by **Buddyw** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:58 pm

pete richardson wrote:i consider it a miracle- anytime i catch a bobcat -- lol

That's kinda how I feel about it.

I went from 0% out of 7 cats, then caught two in a row so that was my 25% glory week Guess I should have sold them while I could claim 25%

.. Now I'm back to normal.. Got spanked on the Superbowl..Come down to some dogs standing over a old coon track in the snow!!

Now My average of sliding into Ditches or getting stuck in this snow are much better this year!

bency · Post by **bency** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:51 pm

About a month ago two of my dogs got slick treed on two separate pinon trees. How many of you have had this as a big part of the bob chasing, walking into slick trees??

doug · Post by **doug** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:43 pm

Retard cats--the only ones I tree.

Yaak attack · Post by **Yaak attack** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:30 pm

12 out of 14 you do the math. I have finally got some dogs that do very well on bobcats. Many years I struggled to catch two or three. I am paying them back for all those races that made my dogs look like they snuck into the retard sandwiches.