Lion hunting help

[tsprink]

Hey fellas, Im new like brand new to lion hunting. I have a friend who got sick and is selling off his dogs and I bought one for 200 he gave me 2 pups (6 or so months old) He let me take his dogs hunting. They have been on several cats he said. I have several ranches to hunt they are all dry ground desert Rockie and tough walking. There is one that i am hunting now that has at least 4 lions they know of. This place has a river and I saw tracks yesterday in the dry part I put the 3 dogs out and they didnt do anything. so I followed the river and the dogs were about 50 yards in front of me, I saw a bobcat running called the dogs they didnt see him but didnt try to chase him at all. so I went the direction on the cat and found nothing. so clearly I am doing something wrong.
how big of an area does a lion have? when will it be back where i found the tracks (area)?
Do I have to follow a track at first or should the dogs? where do you look for cats? Im hunting a plateau called a cap rock here. there are a lot of huge rock steep canyons. please someone get me pointed in the right direction.. the cats have never been hunted here. thanks

[Yard Dog]

How old is the dog you paid $200 for?

What state are you hunting in?

[Mike Leonard]

It is mighty hard to say how old that lion track was and also some dogs don't fire on bobcats even if they are lion dogs.

Where are you located? Caprock NM or Texas? Were them dogs hunted successfuly on dry ground.

Oh if the dogs is a dry ground dog and the track is runable he should strike it and trail out on it without you having to show him the track or walk down it. Now at times you have to help them but if it is good he should go,

You never paid anything for the dog but a cheap pup price so don't worry about that. A good dog that will strike trail run and catch on dry ground is worth 10-20 times that easy.

Let me know a little more about the dogs and the country, and such. Pretty hard to know much from a distance but if you got some lions in there well there is hope. gotta have lions or even the best dogs don't look to good. LOL!

[tsprink]

Im hunting the caprock in NM its by logan, or tucumcari. Its right on the Texas border. some of the land is flat on top and drops off to flat on the bottom. The place Im hunting now is in san jon and looks like its flat until you get back into the steepest rockiest canyons Ive seen. they arnt very tall tallest maybe 300 yards. The tracks I saw were in the river bottom it looked like it walked up and turned around and walked back. I thought they wernt fresh maybe day or 2 old but I went back today and couldn't see them very well at all. and the bobcat tracks I saw looked like the lion the day before. I really don't know they were the first lion tracks i have ever seen. I have hunted all my life and ran coon dogs for years when i was a kid. The dog I bought is around 4 he said, he has another 4 or so walker for 200 as well. The red tick is the lead dog he said he has treed several bobcats and a lion or 2 he is 8 and he wants 1500 for him. the other dog just stays by you he said he was a pack dog. There are no deer in the area where we saw the tracks (a buck track or 2) but there are several maybe a mile east. He says there are 4 or 5 that they know of just on his land 40 sections. I have only hunted it 2 days the wind was 40 miles an hour today so Im told dogs cant hunt in wind over 15 or so. when i hunted coon it was dark and the wind hardly blew. are there any other things i need to let you know? im not sure what detail you want but i can look and take pics of the land tomorrow. thanks for the help...

[tsprink]

Im hunting the caprock in NM its by logan, or tucumcari. Its right on the Texas border. some of the land is flat on top and drops off to flat on the bottom. The place Im hunting now is in san jon and looks like its flat until you get back into the steepest rockiest canyons Ive seen. they arnt very tall tallest maybe 300 yards. The tracks I saw were in the river bottom it looked like it walked up and turned around and walked back. I thought they wernt fresh maybe day or 2 old but I went back today and couldn't see them very well at all. and the bobcat tracks I saw looked like the lion the day before. I really don't know they were the first lion tracks i have ever seen. I have hunted all my life and ran coon dogs for years when i was a kid. The dog I bought is around 4 he said, he has another 4 or so walker for 200 as well. The red tick is the lead dog he said he has treed several bobcats and a lion or 2 he is 8 and he wants 1500 for him. the other dog just stays by you he said he was a pack dog. There are no deer in the area where we saw the tracks (a buck track or 2) but there are several maybe a mile east. He says there are 4 or 5 that they know of just on his land 40 sections. I have only hunted it 2 days the wind was 40 miles an hour today so Im told dogs cant hunt in wind over 15 or so. when i hunted coon it was dark and the wind hardly blew. are there any other things i need to let you know? im not sure what detail you want but i can look and take pics of the land tomorrow. thanks for the help...

also when you look at the cap, at the top for like 20 or so feet its huge rocks, some places I would say a man couldn't get down.