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I guess sometimes you just get lucky. I was on a ranch, cutting BBQ wood yesterday evening when I saw a bobcat. I drove back to town, grabbed a bite to eat, loaded my three blue dogs and drove back to the ranch. I had seen the cat at 6:59 and I dumped my dogs in the general area at 8:26 pm. Shortly after I dumped them they started trailing north and went about a quarter mile before jumping the cat. They ran the cat for just over 30 minutes before treeing. It was a mature tom. Two cats in two hunts on dry ground in over 80 degree temperatures. Sometimes you just get lucky.

Good job. Hope your luck holds out.

come on Gary your killing me down there.....lets see some photos

I could that kind of luck..

Keep that up a couple more times and you might not need luck before long!! LOL...

As soon as I figure out how to post a photo, I will try to get one or two up for you.
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got to tinypic.com and upload the pic and then copy and paste the one with img on both ends of all the mumble jumble. then paste in the forum where you type your words and there you go you got a pic on here.

Good job Gary that old blue female is lining them young ones out right stay after them. Bobcats are very hard on the kid goats, and turkeys and most people are surprized how many of them actually cause stock damage. You will have your neighbors calling you before long to bring them blue dogs over and get some of their cats. Are you by chance in the Junction area?

Funny little story about a lamb killing bobcat. Game warden called me up and asked me if I would bring my dogs out and catcha big bocat that was coming into this man's corrals every night and killing kid goat and lambs. Well I told them I would go take a look at it and see what I could do. Well the corrals were right next to a busy highway and there was no way I was going to turn a hound loose around there. I told the guy that owned the place just set some traps or snares where he is coming in and get him. Well he didn't want to bother with that so he decided he would just crawl up on a shed with his gun and wait and shoot the cat when it came in. Well his plan was ok, but he forgot some of the hazards involved. He crawled up there with one of these hand held spotlights you can charge up, and a 10-gauge automatic shotgun loaded with number 4 buckshot. Well along about midnight the critters started raising heck and he raised up and threw of the light and sure enough there was a big old bobcat standing right there in the pen. He pulled up his gun to shoot and the light sort of slipped in his hand and he dropped it. He just fired off three rounds as fast as he could hoping he would get the cat before it ran off hearing his noise. Well when he retreived his light and switched it on he was shocked to find he had flat out killed two adult goats and had a couple more pretty badly wounded from the buckshot. Oh the cat got away clean, but I guess it did keep him away for awhile hearing that old ten gauge go Boom, Boom Boom! in the dark....LOL!

Mike
I live 30 miles north of Junction in Menard. Was raised in south Texas and grew up hunting hounds and calling critters. Now these bad habits are what pays the bills. I actually treed the last two cats between Menard and Junction. 30 years ago, I raised a few registered treeing walkers and tried to run bobcats. It seems that I had better luck crossing blueticks with running walkers. They seemed to do a little better in that heavy brush country. I don't have any of the heavy brush around here and the extra nose on the blues seems to make them pretty well suited for this country.

Teddy Hodecamp in Junction who owns the wool house there usually knows where some cats are at. He runs treeing walkers but coon hunts and shows mostly. A lot of cat hunters out this way use walker and blue crosses with success and many of the most successful lion and cat men hunt these english style dogs, but like anything else you have to find a cross that clicks.Looks like you have.

Hey.. Great photo....

Mike
I know Teddy very well. He has quite a few treeing walkers, really well make hounds. He coon hunts and catches a few. Real good guy and a friend.
My hounds are registered blueticks. They are very athletic, little less ear and bred to run. I do not stress treeing quite as much as coon hunters do as it can lead to other problems. I breed for intelligence, confirmation for speed and cold nose. I am trying to find a hound of Cameron or Vaughn breeding that is a vey good athlete. This should give me the nose that I want to keep in my dogs. I don't like a big hound as a rule but the male, far right in the photo weighs at least 65 lbs. He is too big for the thick underbrush of South Texas but works well around here.

Good job Gary, keep up the good work