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Rowdy Fitz · Post by **Rowdy Fitz** » Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:52 pm

Son of a gun!!!

DakotaRidge · Post by **DakotaRidge** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:00 am

I've had a hard time with bobbers this year. Seems like the dogs can move the track good until they get in an area where the cat walked in circles, backtracked, or made multiple trips in and out. I can't even make heads or tails where it went.

Rowdy Fitz · Post by **Rowdy Fitz** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:14 am

I found out this evening that CCI has finally developed a jacketed .22lr bullet!

https://www.opticsplanet.com/cci-ammuni ... t-jhp.html

Dakota: I have learned to back off outside of the circles by 100 yards or more and to start circling, looking for the exit track.

DakotaRidge · Post by **DakotaRidge** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:43 pm

Thanks - will do. Those bobs running around in blow down areas is tricky.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:27 pm

Oh definitely, lots of cliffs and boulder fields and lots of blow downs or deadfall is the killer of many a great race. I have places I only turn out going a certain direction, but those little buggers know the instant a dog opens to get on up take a little stretch and head back to the safe side of the road! Trailed a lion all day, not sure if the cat crossed after I was there yesterday or due to the wind howling all night but it was tough going in tough rocky country. About 2 I hiked back a closed road to cut the dogs off so they wouldn’t head for nomans land late in the day. Found an older looking track coming from where they were trailing so I assumed that they were just grubbing that old track. 2 dogs came down it but my 3 youngest females made a hard left and opened just roaring and pulled up treed about 580 yards from. I was very proud an hour and a half later when I finished crawling up the nearly vertical climb I had to make to get to them. Very pretty female in a great tree for pics.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:26 am

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 12:32 am

Had another very long day today, turned the boys out on a track that I’m thinking I must have missed yesterday. Dogs trailed slow in some of the roughest and rocky areas I hunt. Lots and lots of dry ground in the cliffs and it rained off and on. Dogs made a big loose and my July dog picked it up and in short order was 2 miles ahead and treed for an hour and a half before the 3 other boys found their way through the spires to get back in the race. I get 20 yards from the cat which is in a huge tree protruding from a sheer rock face and it jumps and disappeared around the edge and the pups were full send on her ass but the 2 older dogs hit the brakes and went a much safer way. Pups had it caught somehow without it getting into huge rock faces. I get 20 yards away again take a little video and look back up as she is flying out again , it was almost dark and cliffs were getting worse so I did something I never do and toned them off before they got themselves killed.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:05 am

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Rowdy Fitz · Post by **Rowdy Fitz** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:21 am

Congrats Joe! That’s cool to be able to work a day old track and get it treed. I’m still jealous down here in the desert lol.

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:22 am

Man that’s beautiful. Sounds like really good dog work to me. I understand the feeling of having to tone them of are they’ve worked so hard for the game. I feel the same way when I have to do it because of property lines or highways.

We’ve been catching a few. My buddy from Washington state is here visiting. Our first hunt was the morning after he arrived. We had a lot of family plans for that day but wanted to sneak in a hunt. We cast dogs and I told him that as soon as we catch one to start catching dogs. We were just gonna catch one and done. My two bay dogs, Ava and Outlaw, got bayed and we drove around closer to them. Sent my catch dog Ranger and the hog met him and flipped him over backwards. He ran about a 100 yards before they had him stopped and caught. I hustled through some thick yaupons and briars. My buddy was leading a new catch dog prospect of mine so I was there way ahead. Man, I was spent by the time I got there and threw the hog and got Ranger back off of him. He was a real toothy 170+ pound boar. We got him tied and I realized I had forgotten to catch Ava and Outlaw. My reminder was them singing to another hog and we had just finished tying #1. We get to them and I send Ranger. As he kicks in the front door the hog goes out the back door. They get it turned a couple of times but it had its mind made up to leave. While they were dealing with that, we started getting the tied hog out to the trailer, it was a chore. During this process they got bayed a mile and a half away. They would be there for a couple of hours by the time we got the firs hog out and loaded then the buggy loaded and we’re able to get ahold of land owners to make sure I was still good to go in there. It had been a good long since I was in there last. We caught a decent sow and headed home.

The next trip I think we caught 5. None of my dogs were used but all the dogs were out of my family of dogs. I enjoyed watching them work.

Friday, a couple other friends came and hunted with us and we caught 7-8 good sows and truck load of pigs. It was a real nice hunt.

My buddy went with my nephew and a couple other buddies Saturday and they caught 2 nice boars.

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Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:37 am

Man that sounds like a blast!! I’m trying to go to Arizona to hunt for 2 weeks with my good friends from Texas but the kid has been turning it on wrestling so I gotta wait till the divisional tournament to see if he makes it to state. Our conditions have been terrible and even when we have decent snow there’s not enough to push the game down so a lot of the cats are staying high.

lawdawgharris · Post by **lawdawgharris** » Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:26 pm

I wish him luck. Success can be the biggest driving force for a kid to do well and stay straight.

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Rowdy Fitz · Post by **Rowdy Fitz** » Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:50 pm

Dang everyone has been having a semi productive new year! Good yo see you guys are getting action even if it’s hard earned.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:41 pm

Man this weather is absolutely killing my motivation to go out hunting, high 20's at night and mid 40’s by like 10 am is killing the little snow we have very rapidly. Going to look at a nuisance lion call today, apparently this ranch has a ton lion hanging around their alpaca's and the manager came out of his house yesterday and the lion had killed his house cat. I’m always very skeptical of these calls but hopefully I can catch something today.

Beebout-it · Post by **Beebout-it** » Sun Jan 28, 2024 2:09 am

https://youtube.com/shorts/cayS0i7-XVg? ... LbbBYBZLNV Well this guy was right about the lion problem, lion had killed his cat 5 yards behind his house . He put a camera up and she was back at the kill site at 7pm and spent the entire night among his barnyard animals, chickens, pigs, goats, and 2 separate herds of alpacas. When the dogs jumped her she was bedded 80 yards from the ranch hands front door and had the herd on that side freaking out and bunched up in a corral. Weird part is other than those cottonwoods there were no trees or cover for at least a mile in every direction. I was ch the lion run from the alders she was hiding in and climb the side of that house

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