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I am woundering how many people run dry ground for lions and can catch them also.

there's one maybe two the rest of us just hope to stumble across one in a tree occasionally.

I like to travel the roads, hoping to find one that's been run over and can't move very fast. These old mutts of mine might stop one of those!

How old our your dogs?

I tried that roading method and it didn't work well for me. my dogs aren't gritty enough to handle a housecat most days and those wounded lions just send them to the house at a dead run leaving wet marks the hole way. then there's the bad habit of loading the truck up with snickers and what not. If I could ever get the hang of de scenting and tanning skunk hides it would help pay for the gas money.

Com on u guys, play nice now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will find most of the guys in the Southwest and Texas are running dry ground hounds. There are a bunch of guys out there catching consistently. Depending on where you are in Utah there are plenty of guys there that run lions on dry ground. What exactly are you looking for? Your question was kinda broad and is likely why you received the heckling.

B&T Guidesman wrote:How old our your dogs?

I just fed 14 hounds, and they range from 5 months old to 15 years old.
The young'uns need a crippled up has been, and so do the gummmers!

I was just seeing if any people run them and catch them and I aslo like a little heckling

There are a number of hunters that do run them and catch them as well but most dry ground hunters are a little weird. LOL!

Benny I know we resemble the last part of that comment. LOL!

People always look at me funny when I tell them them the only thing better than catching a lion is trailing one. LOL! Now that is what I mean by weird!

Mike Leonard wrote:the only thing better than catching a lion is trailing one.

There are a lot of people that don't understand this. Maybe it comes with age. I KNOW that it comes from dry gound hunting. If you talk to any of the serious dry grounders you will find out that they get very real pleasure out of watching dogs pound and hammer on a track that isn't going anywhere fast. To know that the only thing that drives that or those dogs is the challenge to trail far enough to cut the distance betrween the hunter and the hunted, and then put enough pressure on their quarry to make it throw in the towel, well it just can't get any better than that!

It has been my experience that without seeing it for themselves, most dog hunters will never completely understand the warped mentality of a sun parched hound follower.

A few weeks back, Steve Smith told several folks settin around having a visit that to make a GOOD hound, trail a lion for 20 days straight before catching it. Most hound hunters today don't seem to have that sort of patience, OR determiation!

Pack plenty of water!

Benny,

Glad I was lucky enough to be setting there too when Steve said that. I picked up something else he said that I think a lot of folks might underestimate. He said even going days without striking even an old track helps make really good solid dirt dogs because they have to have the patience to continue to turn down junk and wait.

Well like you said i like to see the dogs pound the track and really work for it but on the saterdays tom on here that was not the case.

There is nothing more awesome then watching a good pack of dogs that know what there doing go to work on dry ground

I was the one that caught it he is just by friend