My daughter shows up in the AM and we head to the mountain in my Toyota.At daylight we find a track that my dogs could run and that was good. I turned out some dogs and they got it going . My young dogs were going and that was GOOD . The dogs ran it down a canyon and then turn and come back east.They were heading in to some rough steep country and that was BAD....We get back to the truck and drive over to the only road in the area..All my dogs my dogs are going and that is GOOD.....We drive over to the canyon and the dogs are in the bottom.This is BAD.....It wasnt bad,that they were in the bottom, It was bad because they were still going.
The dogs left that drainage and were gone. We decided to go back to the truck and drive to Cottonwood and come in that way.After we got back to the truck, it wouldnt start. It wouldnt even turn over.That was BAD.... .We pushed started it and got it running. None of the guages were working including the radio and the blower fan..I thought that we might be running off the battery and that was BAD.....We decided to head home and come back with another rig.
We got home which was GOOD.....We loaded up my Ranger on a trailer and decided to pull it with my wifes Suburban as the tires were bad on my Dodge . We drove back up and dropped off the Ranger ..It ws around 1700 now and that was BAD...My daughter had to go and she boogied...It was now me and my 4 yr old son and that was GOOD ...We took off and found the dogs about an hour and half later which was GOOD.. . The dogs were in a real bad canyon and all treeing switches were goung off...The bad part was there was no way to get down there in the dark, and all the dogs were not there..The boy and I drove out of there and made it home around 2100...That was BAD...
Got up this morning and jumped in the Dodge and headed up on the mountain . A lady called my cell phone and said she had a dog of mine. She said that she was on top of the mountain which was GOOD.... I got up the mountain and she wasnt there. I called her and she was down where we turned loose yesterday.The road to her was real rocky and my tires were bad ..That was BAD>>.
Got my dogs and headed off to the other side of the mountain . The dogs were not in the canyon that they were in the night before. I drove on north to the top of a big mountain over looking Cottonwood.I got a reading on the rest of the dogs, but they werent treed. They were a little spread out, but they were all there..That was GOOD.......I walked back to my truck and my right rear tire was almost flat..That was BAD...
I changed the tire and I was back on the road in about 20 minutes...That was GOOD...
I was about 300 yards to pavement when my left front tire went flat ...That was extremely BAD.....
The guy came out and filled my tire. I drove 2 miles to a Maverick station and got some more air..I even plugged the other tire and got air in that one...That was GOOD>...
I drove out to where I thought my dogs were and they were still way in there...That was BAD>>...I had to turn around and head home as I had to work tonight...Extremely BAD...
Got home around 1600 with no flats...That was GOOD.. Got to bed at 1645 and got up at 1745...Was at work at 1830..Will be off at 0700...Thats BAD...Have to try to get my dogs tomorrow and be at work at 1830....That is not just bad...that SUCKS......
So there you have it...the GOOD and the BAD about Lion hunting according to Coop....Good luck to ya....





