Texas

[Cowboyvon]

I went down and hunted on a ranch down by Langtry TX a while back .. I did alot of videoing, we didn't catch a lion but I had a real good time with some real good people.. the owner of the ranch treated us like royalty .. So I put this series of videos together ..
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... xp6FjLn3UR

[david]

.. I did alot of videoing, we didn't catch a lion but I had a real good time with some real good people..

Good stuff. If video was more representative of hunting in real life, there would be a lot more like yours where the game is not caught.

Also it is a testimony to the difficulty in taking dogs to a different region with different problems to overcome. I am guessing if they had found a track it might have been real rough on them. You called it "dog pear"?

Thanks for sharing.

[Cowboyvon]

Yeah like I said in my trials and tribulations video .."I have lots of video of us catching nothing"

I like video and have been making them long before youtube was around... but its kind of hard to make sitting on mule and riding day in and day out interesting to watch lol and then when it does get interesting you forget to video lol

That dog pear is some nasty stuff.. it lays on the ground like carpet and the dogs are in it before they know it .. we had a vet with us that had some forceps that we used to remove them. The older and smarter hounds just kind of quit after getting in it a few times, the younger hounds were still getting in it the last day. I would sure like to hear from someone who has hunted alot in that stuff and see if the hounds that are raised in it learn to stay out of it..



This picture really doesn't do it justice .. there are big big patches of it and it blends into the ground well and lays pretty flat

[david]

I love the dried out jaw bone. "Let that be a lesson to you son". Haha
I guess that is some pretty rough stuff.

Those dogs were probably walking over lion tracks all day saying "no tail wags today guys".

"get your own darn lion, Brett"

[pegleg]

Nice job

I was eating a early lunch one day while looking for strays I was sitting under. Bush on top of a rock out crop where I could see pretty good. Except right under me. I had a young cow dog with me. I was letting her push them down to the bottom with the idea someone else could take them from there. Anyway she was really enjoying giving them hell. This buck was bedded down below the rock in a cactus patch. I couldn't see him and he wasn't 20 yards away but that dog was out on the edge of the rock squirrelling around and he couldn't take the pressure and broke. Before I could yell she jumped. Landed right in the middle of that patch and made a few hops and howls before she just stuck like she was velcroed. I tried getting her out but it was just to thick and far to reach her. I finally went back on top the rock nd dropped a loop on her and hoisted her out. She came up like a statue every muscle flexed. I spent a long time pulling cactus. She was one of those dogs that couldn't stand to be laughed at. I couldn't not laugh a little she looked half chia pet. She got a few more cactus in her life but she'd either pull them or hunt you up for help. But she never chased another deer nor could you talk her into it. I guess she figured they were a over grown porky or something

[Cowboyvon]

Thats funny Pegleg.. I didn't have much of trash problem down there lol

Here you go David :https://youtu.be/EcUOf0vqftY

[JTG]

Thank you for taking the time to post your videos, I enjoy them. I will be in the same area on the 20th of this month.

[Cowboyvon]

Thanks!...If your hunting let me know how your hounds negotiate that Dog pear

[JTG]

They do fine, but I have seen some hounds shut down. Next time you go, you may want to hunt close to water or around cattle.
I have found even though they rarely kill cows, they follow the cows. Maybe because they stir up rabbits and rats. If you move the cows to another pasture, the lions go with them. The other thing I found is semi silent dogs do best. As soon as the hounds open up, the lions are hot footing it out of there.
There is a bunch of things that stick you other than dog pear and hurt the horses and mules too, especially on the nose when they try to get a bite to eat. I bring needle nose pliers and Benadril, the kind in a bottle.

[Gary Roberson]

I simply hate dog pear and try to avoid the areas where it is really bad. Good news is that I have found that the lions and coyotes are not wild about it either. My dogs have learned to avoid it, if they see it and are now really good at removing it without getting it in the roof of their mouths.
I will admit that there are some areas in the Langtry to Sanderson area that I simply do not care to hunt.
To my surprise, I find a little dog pear out in NE AZ but it does not have the long spines that you find further south.
Adios,
Gary

[Cowboyvon]

I simply hate dog pear and try to avoid the areas where it is really bad. Good news is that I have found that the lions and coyotes are not wild about it either. My dogs have learned to avoid it, if they see it and are now really good at removing it without getting it in the roof of their mouths.
I will admit that there are some areas in the Langtry to Sanderson area that I simply do not care to hunt.
To my surprise, I find a little dog pear out in NE AZ but it does not have the long spines that you find further south.
Adios,
Gary

Yep I think that is the smart thing to do is just avoid it...we started just hunting the rims and down in some of the canyons .. which should have been better to start a lion anyway.. up on top and any flat areas were just full of it. I think if a guy could hunt up and down the river that would be the ticket.. but there were wild horses down there and it was kind of hard to get around... I'm from southern NM I'm not that use to riding around in water up to my stirrups lol

[Mike Leonard]

I agree that dog pear is awful stuff! I have had some run ins with it hunting Texas before and it is a curse!

In my country we are pretty lucky and don't have that stuff but we do have what they call high mountain club cholla which is a nasty little cactus that seems to leap off the ground when a dog or horse step on it and when it goes in it burns like fire. I have seen some pretty good riders get dumped when their mount hit a shank of it and had it slap up and go into those tender under flanks, the rodeo is on! This stuff grows up to 7500 feet of elevation and can be a pain. The dogs get pretty good at it quick and learn to nip them out and then sling them off their face but occasionally you have to get off and get the wire pliers out to jerk them out. they seem to have a poison in then and in tender fingers they really burn for a good while. Not good but nothing when compared to that terrible Sonoran cholla I encounter down in the low country in Arizona.

[pegleg]

There's some areas of this world that your just not meant to be travelling in. I get harrassed sometimes because of the heavy chaps I wear but I've seen guys have to pull quills out of their chaps before they can take them off . getting caught between a horse and the wrong cacti can bring the fun to a end. Then threes them good horses that can slip right through there at a good clip and neither you Or the horse pick up a single spine.