twist wrote:How can one bobcat hunt yr round as most areas I thought had seasons? Andy
Twist,
Check your reg.'s--AZ, OK, & TX are three States that I hunt and you can hunt bobcats all the time with your hounds. In OK you can run/tree them only. The other two States they are considered predators, I believe?
Load your hounds and come down to Oklahoma & hunt sometime with me?
Clyde, you are to dang far for this boy but would sure enjoy it. I new there were a few areas that allowed it as like I said in (most) areas, always coverin my butt lol. Andy
Clyde, What's it cost for a non resident license to pursue Bobcats, I might be in that neck of the woods in July. Driving coast to coast hauling a few dogs to run in West Virginia for the month.
merlo_105 wrote:Clyde, What's it cost for a non resident license to pursue Bobcats, I might be in that neck of the woods in July. Driving coast to coast hauling a few dogs to run in West Virginia for the month.
Check with Oklahoma Wildlife Dept for exact.
Oklahoma has only annual small game for non-resident & it is about $80, plus if you hunt in Three Rivers or Honobia WMA there is a annual trespass fee of about the same for non-resident.
You may run/hunt but not kill up to or until fur season, just like coon season.
houndogger wrote:We aren't allowed to run game at night in BC so running coon builds good cold trailing dogs in my opinion as most are layed up. Also makes excellent locate tree dogs in our big timber.
When I do travel to interior to run the smaller cats my dogs don't seem to have a problem so it works for me. Gave up running bears about 10 years ago and the quality of my dogs is night and day different.
How did the quality improve? When I started running a lot more bear and became more successfull at catching them, my success rate improved dramatically on all cat species.
Funstuff if you only hunt during season but have your hounds out all the time as hiking buddies ,but never run game out of season as you stated what do you do about crossing tracks wile hiking? Call your dog's and pups off a good track?
How many bobcats are you so called bobcat only Hunters really catching a year. I know a pile of houndsmen in most regions and they turn out on every bobcat they see. Most right now are sitting at around 5-10 bobcats. So you complain about a dry season and won't run anything else? You take them hiking and call them off game? I'm not saying you have to run out of season but you must have some confussed dogs when it comes back to Dec 1. To me and this is just my opinion but ide rather run what i can rather than run 10 bobcats and tie my dogs up. You Oregon guys must laugh at us when you catch more in a,week than 99% of guys hear catch in a season. I feel we just can't hunt bobcats cause you wouldn't see much game and with it being a dry season I don't think you can be to picky on what you run. We just don't have the high numbers,of bobcats like Oregon and we can't compete. A bobcat only dog to me is a waste of space here cause you can catch triple the numbers of everything else and still catch every bobcat track you find.
Why are there not many Bobcats in Mt? You have thousands of square miles that are inacessible to 95+% of the hunters due to either the lack of roads or large private ranches. I would think the cats would thrive in those places and spill out to where they are accessible. Whats you Mt. guys thoughts on this? I have been in western montana several times and the habitat looked great for cats to me.
.[/quote]How did the quality improve? When I started running a lot more bear and became more successfull at catching them, my success rate improved dramatically on all cat species.[/quote]
May 24th let's say you have a over night cat track has crossed the road, but a bear has been feeding along the road up until first light. What would your dog take? Grub out the cat track or take the hot bear track?
If your going to find tracks you better make tracks!
Mark,
You raise a very interesting question. I live and hunt in Mississippi. We do not have a large population of cats yet Florida and south Texas have quite large numbers of cats. Our habitat and food supply is as good if not better. There are only three or four "bobcat" hunters in the state. I suppose this mystery is universal.
John Sumrall
hounddogger, No question my dogs would blow out on the bear track.
Mark, Western Oregon gets 10x the amount of precipitation then western Montana. 10x the amount of precipitation should equal to 10x the brush should equal to 10x the rabbits should equal to 10x the bobcats.
