Hunting in the Wind????

Orion Guide · Post by **Orion Guide** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 2:09 pm

How many of you hound guys hunt in the wind? If so whats your success? How do your dogs do? Would like some feedback..... I hate hunting in the wind but still do sometimes!!!

Brindle · Post by **Brindle** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:06 pm

I was hunting the san Juan last year late spring for bear. The wind was blowing so hard it would literally blow you off the ridges. But we started a bear in it. They ran the bear for about a hour in the wind. Then the bear went to a canyon out of the wind. You couldn't hear nothing but wind howling in your ear. But the dogs surprised the Heak out of me and stuck that bear nicely. But personally I don't like it.

Brent Sinclair · Post by **Brent Sinclair** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:13 pm

Southern Alberta may very well be one of the windiest places on the contenent.
If we did not hunt in the wind here we would possiably only get out a couple times a year.
What do you call wind?
I have been lucky and taken lions with wind gusts in excess of 70mph in the open, the timber cuts that down considerably however at times you need to cross open hill sides.
Hounds learn to hunt in these conditions but they have to hunt it.
I walk alot with my hounds casting out 50 -100 yards from me and they learn to hunt up a track and to figure it out when they loose it on the open wind blown hillsides.
The big killer here is the drifting snow that we get with the wind...unless your in some timber or down in a valley where the wind can't get to strong your most likely just out to get some exercise.
You can happen upon a kill or a lion bedded for the day and with that your chance are good to put one up.
Most of the time you get your butt handed to you but you'll never catch a lion unless your our on the ground with your hounds.
Difficult to say success but your chances are alot less for sure if you have wind to deal with.
I hunted in Patagonia, Argentina a few years back, they have wind there like we do here in Alberta but they also have long grass and more vegetation.
The hounds had alot better ability to follow the scent in the wind and catch a lion there than in most of the other places I have been due to that factor...
I hate hunting in the wind as well but I like to hunt so I do it.

Mike Leonard · Post by **Mike Leonard** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:22 pm

I hate it too but if you hunt in this country you are going to have to contend with it. I have not found it has nearly as much effect on a lion track as is does on a bear track. Bear scent although profound and rather stong when fresh seems to pool up higher in the air and does not have the lasting qualities of a lion especially an older tom lion's scent. The wind seems to play heck on bear tracks pretty quick and if it is blowing hard like it does down here in New Mexico at times when it literally is rolling small rocks and pebbles across the ground and sand is flying you might want to forget the bears until it lays down. The wind will get to swirling up out of those canyons in the morning or down the ridges in the evenings and those rigs dogs might be rigging a bear way over yonder.

Lion hunting when it is really windy is just a pain because you have a hard time hearing your dogs keeping your hat on and after a day on top of a horse out in that high wind you feel like somebody has jerked you thru a knot hole backwards.LOL!

chilcotin hillbilly · Post by **chilcotin hillbilly** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:57 pm

I know a little about wind as well, living at Tatlayoko Lake which means Lake of big winds. The lion hunting doesn't make much difference with or with out wind other then not hearing the hounds until you are 50 yards from the tree.
Bear hunting is a different story as i rig my dogs, a stong wind mixed with thermals makes it tough to locate a track on a good strike. If things are calm the dogs get a definate direction of the track or bear they stuck.

houndnem · Post by **houndnem** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:47 pm

I think it hurts ya alot when dry grounding lions. it hurts me anyway. maybe my dogs are not as good as some, but I had a good strike on a lion track in the dirt this morning, the wind was blowing hard and by the time we hit the top of the first ridge the wind had wiped out the track completely. I had two shoe laces of snot hanging out my nose from the bitter cold wind and even the dogs acted like they were miserable. so we loaded up to try it another day. wind sucks JMO

Brent Sinclair · Post by **Brent Sinclair** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:09 pm

Mike Leonard wrote:Lion hunting when it is really windy is just a pain because you have a hard time hearing your dogs keeping your hat on and after a day on top of a horse out in that high wind you feel like somebody has jerked you thru a knot hole backwards.LOL!

Mike
I hear ya!!!!
That's why we don't saddle up much in this area....that and deep snow in the canyons.
It blew so hard her a couple weeks ago I went out to the kennels to get the hounds and the wind pinned me against the chainlink, the wife saw I wasn't commin in and had to feed me weiners through the shotgun for supper till it went down and I could get back to the house...

Orion Guide · Post by **Orion Guide** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:06 pm

I agree with all, huntin can be done in the wind but damn that wind...... Its howlin as I type, and thats why I'm indoors typing instead of runnin dogs!!

M Evertsen · Post by **M Evertsen** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:26 pm

I hate the wind. Can't hear the dogs, and it makes my ears hurt. It is probably blowing 30 or so steady out there right now. arg.

cat and bear · Post by **cat and bear** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:08 am

Brent, that is cute, and I believe ya

I didnt hear Garmin

I doubt you would get me on horseback, or snowmobiles on windy days, but I've found myself hunting more of them, out of my chevrolet

. Of course you cant hear the cold trail, and jump, on fast running game, but you sure can watch the garmin, and usually tell, whats going on, and when you have a race. It sure beats sitting home, on a weekend. Kind of hard to find hunting partners, that still use the omnish, beep system, they just wont come out and play

I usually have better stories and catch more game by myself, anyway

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