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The last two days have just been too much fun for me to handle without telling someone. It all started yesterday morning when we cut two lions running together. A fellow houndsman(Mt dog) pulled up a little before daylight and stopped to visit. We discussed lots of stuff and he told me that he treed a female and a little tom that were running together in the same area a few weeks earlier. I just enjoy listening to people that know what they are talking about. Well at daylight we turned out my little pup and gave him a few minutes while we collared up the rest of the "mob". I was with two of my friends and they each have two dogs. We then dropped them all on the track and they caught up to the pup in short order. Within a few minutes my year and a half old female peeled off from the "mob". I ran around in the truck to see if she was trashing or what was going on. She had taken the females track by herself and was doin fairly well, so I fell in after her to make sure she was OK. My two buddies went with the "mob" and they treed shortly. It was a small tom, just as we were told it would be. They worked with my pup and one of my buddie's pups and got them to tree well. Meanwhile my little female was still banging away at the female and ran her for a couple miles and finally got her jumped and treed shortly after. It was her first solo catch. I was pumped! The guys turned the mob onto my tracks and soon they all showed up and I got the pups to tree again. By this time they were definately primed and ready to go! I let them tree for about a half hour and called them all off the tree and walked peacefully back to the truck with all six dogs following single file down the trail. I was dumbfounded to say the least!!!

Then today we all went out again and couldn't find a good track to run by 9 AM and decided to call it a day. I dropped them off and went home. When I got home my wife and daughter were leaving so I decided to take my little Duncan pup out by himself and see what we could scrape up. We just went up above the house onto public ground and cut a nice track walking down the road. I checked it out and decided to give it a whirl. I collared him up and let him out of the truck and he ran around to the front of the truck and hit the track and was gone! He was trailing the road and moving it well and then all the sudden he exploded and took off to the left side of the road. I hustled up there and saw that the track he was working had been walked over the other way reciently by a nice tom. He was about 200 yards out and I called him back and turned him onto the newer tom track headed up the hill to the right. He took it like the cat was still in the tracks. He ran it wide open for about a mile and a half and I saw him start to circle on the GPS. I was considerably behind him at this point so I quit following his tracks and cut over towards him. He tried to locate for about 15 minutes or so but couldn't find the cat. He started to walk back out on his tracks and I caught him about 200 yards from where he stopped the track and turned him around. He ran back to the tree and was still trying to locate when I got there. I looked around for a few minutes and finally found a nice tom in the top of a big ol' fir. I guarantee there was no happier man in the forest at that moment.

thanks for listening....

Scott

Awesome!! It doesn't get any better than that!! Congrats Man!

Very nice and it shows another positive function of the Garmin. Keep after that pup and peel him out on the next one first.

Fun stuff!

Scott,great story on your young dogs keep hammerin the big cats. We had good snow Monday in the low country and had a nice day on a bobcat but by the end of the day the south slopes were gone and this made for no hunting Tuesday. later, Andy

Here are some pics of the two hunts I was talking about.

Here is my yearling female:


Here is the female that she caught:


Here is my little Duncan pup:


Here is the tom that my pup caught:



Scott

Scott, awesome story. Sounds like you are gonna have your hands full for a few years to come with that crew.

I do have a question for you though......what kinda huntin you guys got up there? No breakin down equipment, lions walkin down the road everyday. I think we're gonna detour your way.

Thanks for sharing, jason

poser, I'd like to tell you it's all roses, but I know that we can swap out a Toyota engine in a night if necessary though. You and your gang are welcome as the flowers of May any time you can make it up. Might even be able to get Drifter in the area to say hello.

Scott

oh Im leaving the state if the UT yahoos come to town lol

Poser - you dirty rotten )*&^*(^(*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You must have put a curse on me. I went out today and first thing I ripped the mirror off my truck on a tree. Then I knocked the sidewall out of a tire. To top it off, didn't cut a track all day.

Thanks again,

Scott

Doogie, that would be a smart move buddy. We don't bring good luck usually.

Scott, i would never curse anyone.... We have enough problems keeping air in the tires and equipment goin down the road. It sounds like you had a normal day of hunting for us, except for the catches you made the days prior to now. I'm still waitin to see a cat in a tree.

Thanks for the invite. If we can ever scrounge up the gas money, you might regret it.

Keep them pups in the woods, sounds like they are gonna be some good ones.

Scott, sounds like they are really clicking, you are going to have to make it down for a bobcat run if it works out for you before the season ends. That little black dog must really be doing well. later, Andy