Nogie's first lion

[houndnhorse]

Before you ask what a Nogie is, it is my boy Logan's nickname. He's eight and has been on many an unfruitfull lion hunt in his day, I about pulled his plug on tha last little jaunt and it took those boys from Vermont coming out and hunting to turn him back around. You see, he gets a little irritated at dad for not killing anything. Those Vermont boys were a blast and we got one on the second day in crappy melting conditions. Well the conditions haven't improved, but I've been putting a few up the last few weeks, so I decided to get some pics up. I didn't get any photo's of last thursday's hunt, except on my phone, but I put two up that day, and this one was Sunday with perfect conditions. Heck I'll throw some in of last Saturday and tell you it was Thursday.Anyhow here goes.

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Some more...

Cherry pushing one up a tree.

[Catman]

Congrats to Nogie. You'll have the boy hooked now

[houndnhorse]

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[houndnhorse]

And before you get all high and mighty, I ran this little guy clear to the top of the mountain and three days later he was right back where Nogie and I caught him again. The bad thing is, he was only about a hundred yards from a ranch house and fifty yards from the cows calving. I get to hunt on this ranch and have an agreement. Anyhow, it was a young tom, which helped the decision, and Nogie gets a fur on his wall. Now here are a couple pics from last weekend. By the way, Sunday's cat I caught with just my pups and Truck he is just over a year and a half. Jason's peach even got in on this one and Thursday's double.

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Last weekend.

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ANd Truck sitting down and hammering like his daddy did.

[treedogtodd]

Congrats, Its nice to see kids getting out and enjoying the hunt. They are the future of our hound hunting!!

[houndnhorse]

He is one excited boy, he can't wait to go again. I have to get him some pics made to take to his buddies in class.

[bency]

Right on! Nothing wrong with helping the kids out!

[savage]

Right On Mr.M!! Looks like a happy boy to me! I hope hes hooked, maybe someday he and Troy will be making those hell hikes while you and I man the truck(raiding the beer cooler of course)

[houndnhorse]

Where's the pics from your weekend? I play around with these young ones and you chase around the Toms. Chase one over to me would ya? Oh, and I can't wait till those two boy's are hiking those tracks out, and we are picking them up on the sleds, after a nap ofcourse.

[houndnhorse]

Here's a little video from the hunt with the boy.

http://s946.photobucket.com/albums/ad30 ... v&newest=1

[M Evertsen]

Good job Mike!

Don't let chasing toms sound TOO inviting. I turned loose yesterday at 1 pm on a nice lion track. Got skunked. Cut the track again this morning about 5 miles and 2 or 3 canyons away. It was nice and fresh. Broken throught the snow, still little snow balls sitting on top that hadn't even thawed and re froze yet. PERFECT. Well 4 hours later, no track, dogs that couldn't get find the track going again, and nothing caught. Trust me them toms aren't what you think they are

Later,

Marcial

[houndnhorse]

Better be careful Marciel, Logan is sneaking up on your record.