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I would love to hear more secerets or tips for runnining cats year around. Heck when if first got hounds, I got them to kill racoons to try to make the bird hunting better around home for my pointers. Then I got introduced to cat hunting and flat got out of bird hunting. Up until recently I thought that if we had no snow, we couldn't hunt, atleast in my neck of the woods.

So lets hear your stoies, whats the temp, soil conditions, area of the state, how to find tracks, and how to get the dogs going, lion or bobcat.

well i'd saywhen the dirts real layered up you can see tracks in roads in the dirt
or you can free cast your dogs
walk with em where lions might have passed or layed up, remember they like easy walking just like me and you, try to cut tracks off dirt roads or you gotta do it the hard way and walk walk walk..then you might hit a trail and here comes more walkin
then again thats how we do it round here year round
haha

Arizona Beagle,

good advice.

Do you by chance know Rynn Hamblin my old buddy in Queen Creek? He is a heck of a lion and bear man and had some of the best hounds I ever saw. I wrote a story about his most famous hound Arizona Red back in the 80's in Full Cry. He is not guiding any more but he is a top hand, and he and I and old Van Hale laid some tracks years back up on Pueblo Creek. Sure had a lot of fun!

up until a year ago I hunted dry ground yearround I rigged freecasted and roaded mainly for greyfox and bobs caught them from jan-dec dogs just need to be hunted in what ever conditions you have at the time. To many hunters want the weather and temp in theyre favor or they will not hunt. Hunt the conditions you have any chance you get and you will have better more well rounded dogs

Mike Leonard wrote:Arizona Beagle,

good advice.

Do you by chance know Rynn Hamblin my old buddy in Queen Creek? He is a heck of a lion and bear man and had some of the best hounds I ever saw. I wrote a story about his most famous hound Arizona Red back in the 80's in Full Cry. He is not guiding any more but he is a top hand, and he and I and old Van Hale laid some tracks years back up on Pueblo Creek. Sure had a lot of fun!

well you know Mike, seems like every name sounds familiar lol
but i cant put a face with it..does he maybe have a son? only hamblins i know out here is a kid named justin, i played ball with him in highschool, he played D end on the other side of the defensive line lol
i hunt with people up in tonto basin, do alot around picture mountain and out in the greenbacks, little bit out in the pinals around globe too
do you maybe know an old man from payson named Howard,he must be damn near 90 now, he guided with Bill marshall from payson for quite a few years i know, lives in gilbert now.. neat old timer
i LOOOVE hearin them stories of the good old days

No I didn't know any Howard. Only hunters I knew in Payson area were Ken Kiggens, that Vet. and his name slips me, and Steve Smith South of there. I would have liked to met the Pyles from around there really good lion hunters.

well mike theres alotta guys in az runnin lions
lot of guys who catch alotta game, i've never heard those names before but i dont know many people up in payson....rynn hamblin used to bear hunt alot around greenes peak out in the white mountains didnt he?

When he was outfitting he lived in Springerville. He no longer outfits not even sure if he is hunting much these days.

Sawtooth, I am a birddog guy, that is been bite buy the hound bug. I don't know every much about hounds but I have learned a lot from birddogs. I think I am just going to hunt the hound out of them, and I am sure if I will pay attention, they we teach me a lot as well. I ran quite a bit in NSTRA. And guide quail hunt now.