Wiley said, Keep going back.
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:19 pm
In this heat em and eat world of fast food,instant e -mails and text messages it is hard to slow down and take the steady course.
Wiley Carroll famous Nevada State lion hunter and trapper /houndman extrodinaire, gave me this bit of wisdom about a quarter of a century ago. I left it lay in the memory bank so many times but just a bit ago it proved it's worth again so I thought I would share it as it was shared with me.
Wiley says: Mike, most folks never had the time I had to go back day after day after day to the same area to hunt it out to see if a lion came thru it. That's what I was doing and getting paid for so I looked at the country, and I knew it was lion country and there was old sign there and I had cut track there before and I knew the game was there so I just kept a going back. Well it might be a day it might be a week, but sooner or later I would find a pretty fresh crossing and get on my lion.Now then folks that don't have that kind of time will just hit a spot and if doesn't pan out they just run to another spot tomorrow or the next day and bounce around like a ping pong ball. Well you might get lucky and I hope you do, but that is all in the world it is but luck. It is even better if you don't have the time I had to keep going back to that same spot that you know is a lion crossing or pathway. Sure you will draw a lot of blanks but I bet if you add it up over time barring dumb luck you will get on more lions by doing so.
Now think about that? I am not just talking to guys that run dozens if not hundreds of miles of fresh snow roads looking for a fresh lion track I am talking to guys who get out on the bare ground and walk or ride and really have to hunt for their lion track.
Even snow hunters can pull up the state report and see what areas most of the harvests have come from for years, and then keep going back and join the traffic jam, cuz anybody else can get the same report, and they know a lion if there is one will cross sooner or later.
Wiley Carroll famous Nevada State lion hunter and trapper /houndman extrodinaire, gave me this bit of wisdom about a quarter of a century ago. I left it lay in the memory bank so many times but just a bit ago it proved it's worth again so I thought I would share it as it was shared with me.
Wiley says: Mike, most folks never had the time I had to go back day after day after day to the same area to hunt it out to see if a lion came thru it. That's what I was doing and getting paid for so I looked at the country, and I knew it was lion country and there was old sign there and I had cut track there before and I knew the game was there so I just kept a going back. Well it might be a day it might be a week, but sooner or later I would find a pretty fresh crossing and get on my lion.Now then folks that don't have that kind of time will just hit a spot and if doesn't pan out they just run to another spot tomorrow or the next day and bounce around like a ping pong ball. Well you might get lucky and I hope you do, but that is all in the world it is but luck. It is even better if you don't have the time I had to keep going back to that same spot that you know is a lion crossing or pathway. Sure you will draw a lot of blanks but I bet if you add it up over time barring dumb luck you will get on more lions by doing so.
Now think about that? I am not just talking to guys that run dozens if not hundreds of miles of fresh snow roads looking for a fresh lion track I am talking to guys who get out on the bare ground and walk or ride and really have to hunt for their lion track.
Even snow hunters can pull up the state report and see what areas most of the harvests have come from for years, and then keep going back and join the traffic jam, cuz anybody else can get the same report, and they know a lion if there is one will cross sooner or later.
Roy
