Rigging bobcats

[hoyter]

For those of you who mostly rig bobcats off of a truck or other vehicle. Do you feel as though the dogs are striking a track or smelling a laid up bobcat when they strike off of the rig.
Thanks

[al baldwin]

I can/t count myself as real bobcat hunter now days, in the past I have trained some very good rig dogs. The good ones I owned rigged bobcat scent of all kinds, yhey rigged every piss post in the country, cold bobcat tracks, hot bobcat tracks. However, no watter how good they are at rigging they sure can miss some bobcat scent & in my experience it is easier for a dog to rig a piss post than a hot track sometimes.

[Bluedog88]

I think mine are usually scenting the cat. let one off the rack and ran nose up to the cat and caught it.

[macedonia mule man]

It looks to me , dogs are rigging air current scent. It might come from a track, or the animal or whatever it messed with.

[hownhunter]

My dogs strike the best when it is a red hot cat or a pile of cat shit in the road that they love to eat.

[dwalton]

rigging bobcats  is a long topic all of the responses that I read i think are right depending on how you hunt and the type of dog where and when you hunt.  Demoss in washington was the first that I heard rigging bear as a teenage I hunted with a top bear hunter in western oregon his dogs just started rigging bear on there on a hole new way of starting track opened up. Tom barns was probably the first cat hunter to rig bobcats. i started trying to rig bobcats with a good rig for bear but she never did. One of the young dogs in the early 70' i notice that would get real excited on the box but not open putting him down we had a good bobcat track. Fast forward 55 years i have had many good rigging dogs for bobcat. they vary some will hit only hot tracks smelling the bobcat it shelf some will hit a week old piss bush and some will open on everything. I have seen dogs rig a bobcat across a clear cut go 400 yards to the far edge put there nose down and trail a cold track they could not complete. I have seen them strike and go a 100 yards to smell of a scratch with droppings give a tail wag and come back. By knowing your dog by how it acts on a strike as to what you have. In my opinion a good strike dog is worth its weight in gold for the time and ground you cover to get a cat going. Dewey