High Country Pics

[pat_kemp]

Nice pics thats some awesome looking country, looks like about what we hunt over here

[Dan Edwards]

Outstanding pics for sure!

[Catman]

LionTracker,
That almost looks like a bob kitty in a quakie tree of the first pic? Can't zoom in good enough....Nice country.

[liontracker]

That's what I thought too! There were Bob tracks in the meadow, I sure hope we didn't walk past one!

[Maverick]

Pretty country, fine looking hounds, they look familiar.

[liontracker]

Thanks. I bet they do!

[Big N' Blue]

Great pics Tim!! Looking at that country will make your blood boil. Most people do not realize that you almost have to be a mountain climber to be a lion hunter. LOL

My poor little nephew came for a hunt and stayed 2 days and when he left said if i ever take the mountain out of mountain lion hunting he would come back. LOL

Thanks again for sharing the pics!

[The Vise]

Thanks for sharing! Those pics are awesome! It really makes me wanna get a nice camera and start collecting a portfolio of my own.

[liontracker]

That's Axl's sis on the right! Mom on the left.

[The Vise]

Thats Awesome! Axl and Rose just caught two coons tonight. They movin pretty good on the coons now I just got to find em some cat tracks when the snow flies! Can't wait!

[houndogr]

wow! thats impressive. 5 month old pups trailing a 5 day old melted out bobcat tracks. Now your trailing 14 day old lion tracks, that your dogs opened every 3 too 10 seconds. I sure would like to see that. it just gets better every time i get on here. whats it gonna be next.

[liontracker]

You never know, just depends on how hard you push them...
I think the big difference though is in starting them young and making them really work for a track. Being on the ground with them 100% and helping them on those bad ones goes a long way. Just to be clear, there is no way they would have caught on a track that old, it was just exercise. Very slow, but fun to listen to. I think there are alot of hounds out there that could do the same if given the same opportunities. It took me 5 years to get them to that level.

[BuckNAze]

Im with you on this liontracker, although I dont have near the experience as most people on here. I think if you work your dogs and if their breeding is right that you can make a dog use its nose and that it has the potential to be a "colder" nosed dog, you just have to make them work for it. Most dogs want to please as a natural instinct, that with a hunting instinct makes them really want to work for it. It depends a lot on the dogs drive on how well it can smell a track or work a track in my opinion. Not saying that some dogs dont have a better nose then others because a lot of them do, but I think that some people dont get the full potential out of their dogs sometimes because they dont spend the time with them like liontracker and others do. Seems they take the time to make their dogs the best they can be. Again awesome photos and dogs liontracker! My hats off to you.

[Mike Leonard]

Thank God! there is always a Land of Beyond
For us who are true to the trail;
A vision to seek, a beckoning peak,
A farness that never will fail;
A pride in our soul that mocks at a goal,
A manhood that irks at a bond,
And try how we will, unattainable still,
Behold it, our Land of Beyond!

Robert Service.


That vision to seek and that beckoning peak are even a stronger pull when their is a hound tried and true blazing the trail.

[liontracker]

WOW!

Hounds...the colder and truer...the better.
That is the horizon I seek.