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Hello, Im a hog dogger from north east texas, was wondering yalls style of hunting for lions, cats, and bears. We cast our dogs, they check back in and we ease up some more until they strike one. we have no season, but i dont run my dogs during deer season. we hunt on 500 to a couple thousand privately owned acre tracts.

Is there a season for yall's game? How long is it?

Anyone cast their dogs? If so how far do they range?

How much land do yall hunt on?

Sorry if ther dumb questions, just curious on how it's done

i hunt cats over here in oregon and i rig them on the truck. every now and then i will road the dogs but mostly i rig them. i hunt public land mostly dont really have accsess to big property. our cat season opens dec1 and closes i think in feb sometime i would have to look it up. cant run bear or lion around here legally so i stick with cat and coon. i hunt coons the same way i do have a farm i hunt on and i just castthem there they go out about 50 yards or so out they check in about every so often not to much. but thats how i do it here. when it snows here i just keep them in the box and look for tracks my dogs arnt completly broke yet still workin on that but once they are broke then even in the snow i will rig them

We've got a long cat season, Sept 8 to June 15 !
Most guys around here have their hounds on a chain or in a pen once the snow stops fallling though.
Once I get set up (as soon as I find the hound I'm looking for) I'll be one of the few that works them all season.

Here in Wash. I just drive the roads or use a snomobile when the snow gets too deep to drive. We just look for lion tracks after a fresh snow. Once we find the track, no brainer, poke the dog on the direction the cat is going and wait for a tree. We can't use dogs on bear anymore here but I use to get a strike about once a yr. on a lion from the pickup box. Didn't know it was a cat till we got to the tree. We now are at the point we can't hardly hunt with too much snow. We chased one 2 days ago and the dogs finally gave up because they were sinking over their heads in snow and I saw them flipping over backwards when they went up a steep bank. They would keep trying and eventually make it but it's a waste of time trying to hunt lions in that deep of snow. If we get a warm spell to harden up the top so they don't sink we can go again. Bill White, Twisp, Washington