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I was wondering since we can't seem to get any good snow this winter if any body hunts coons in the winter in Montana. I have a pup that needs to see some bobcats or lions but when it doesn't snow theres not much to go hunt.

If you can catch a coon w/o snow. Then why not a cat? J.W.

Yeah I coon in Montana during the winter. has also seemed to me that if the temp was above freezing some will be moving around.

Why do you need snow to hunt cats?

rig your dogs or road them for cats if ya aint got snow or go huntin with someone who has dogs who can rig a cat, shoot if i only hunted the snow here i would only get to hunt maybe a week out of the year lol

Hate to jump in on a post but for catching bobcats in the area eagle nest is at isnt going to happen to often without snow unless you happen to free cast and get one jumped. I have been hunting this area for 30 yrs and there isnt a dog out there that can rig one here on a consistant basis not enough roads and no vegatation to hold scent and ussually to dry and cold and ground is for most part frozen making scent conditions poor. Andy

Free casting is the normal way we huntem here in Va. Haven't had hardly any snow here since the first of the yr. We have had a few mornings with frost on the ground and that certainly helps trailing conditions.