Deer season is finally over in most places I hunt with the exception of a couple of my big high fence places.

So went down to South Texas to hunt a new ranch. Weather was good but I had to hunt around a couple of hunters who were trying to knock out there last two doe tags for the season. They ...

All depends on what you like, but I would probably look out in Oregon or Northern CA, I have a number to a guy in Oregon I got a couple of really nice females from and he is a hard cat hunter. Also I know there is a guy in Colorado that used to be on this board that hunted lion and bobcat by the ...

I am going to try and get out again this coming week but I am waiting to see if my best female is actually coming into heat or if it is just a false alarm. I am hoping she is coming into heat as I am going to stick her to a buddy of mine's real nice male. He is one of the three coldest nosed ...

by lawdawgharris » Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:47 pm
"You need to breed some lab into those cat dogs so they bring them back to you."

It's funny you say that because when we were driving home from the hunt my buddy who used to really love to duck hunt said the same thing, he said I bet I could train a lab ...

Well I got out and made three hunts this last week. Each day we got better and improved on the previous day. In total we started 4 cats, got 2 jumped, and ended up baying one on the ground. It was a really good performance for dogs that had been put up for over two weeks, and my eight month old pup ...

Happy late Thanksgiving yall. Hope you and your families have a blessed one.

Winterized the kennels yesterday which here where I am at in the South usually just means putting some coastal in their houses. I have one genius out there, who is rail thin and doesn't gain weight, slick coated, and will ...

When I was out West we had one spot down south that we always lost fox and cats in the rocks at. It was almost guaranteed your race would end up there and the dogs did learn how to check and work those rocks but still lost a lot of game in them.

No I did not get out. I went out to load them in the ...

Thats very interesting. I am sure glad I don't have to deal with many bluffs any more. I have dealt with my fair share and have been in some sketchy predicaments lol.

I know what you mean about having dogs that know when to put their head down and when to pick it up. The dogs I have now are really ...

Hey Beebout-it I've never hunted in Montana though it's a dream of mine. It sounds similar to some of the other places I hunted out west, Ponderosa pines, lots of rocks piles in places, and chasing them over mountains, definitely has a lot of challenges. Also you have one huge challenge that I ...

Hey Lawdog I will do my best to answer (get ready this gone be a long post lol). Keep in mind I am no expert just some random guy who likes chasing cats all over the country.

Q: What are the other dogs doing while those dogs are looking up?
A: They are fanning out looking for the track trying to ...

Hey Al you make a great point and are correct. But what I poorly tried to illustrate was I have had a few really nice real deal locating tree dogs, the last one I had I lost a couple of years back and she was also a really nice rig dog as well. With her on the ground I still treed somewhere around ...

Al you make a good point and I can tell you that lots of people have hunted with tree dogs including myself out here. We all started with the same thought process you stated, but had our minds changed by the results. I've hunted cats in quite a few states by myself and with lots of other great ...

Beebout-it: Sass do you catch a lot of cats on the ground? If so are your running dogs killing them, or baying them up? I assume there’s not much for big trees so do they tree when a cat climbs or move out looking to strike something else to run?

We catch 90+ percent on the ground. A lot of that is ...

If this is directed at me, there are a ton of things I look at but regardless of those I always try to breed for a better and more complete dog. Here are some of the things I take into account; I look at what I think my pack lacks and try to improve it. Firstly I look at the dogs performance traits ...

Beebout-it: "What kind of hounds are you running?"
Down here in the South, Running Dogs are king lol. I run mainly an old line of Running Walkers from the Southeast who have only been bred to run bobcats for quite some time and a few South Texas Cat dogs that were bred only for cats as well. I ...