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I'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming?
Quote from: Gringo31 on November 18, 2015, 01:57:32 PMI'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming?i don't know about 50/50 but it has been done before. I have tried it my self but have not been successful yet. Prepare to walk a long ways and threw some nasty stuff. They don't seem to care how thick or how steep it is they just wonder up and down like its nothing. Found some tracks on a blow down yesterday but I'm thing young cougar or tom bobcat. Had to tell cause the cat was slipping as it walked. Snow was starting to melt and the trees where dripping like crazy so I lost the tracks quickly.
Quote from: jasnt on November 18, 2015, 05:48:37 PMQuote from: Gringo31 on November 18, 2015, 01:57:32 PMI'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming?i don't know about 50/50 but it has been done before. I have tried it my self but have not been successful yet. Prepare to walk a long ways and threw some nasty stuff. They don't seem to care how thick or how steep it is they just wonder up and down like its nothing. Found some tracks on a blow down yesterday but I'm thing young cougar or tom bobcat. Had to tell cause the cat was slipping as it walked. Snow was starting to melt and the trees where dripping like crazy so I lost the tracks quickly.Those tracks look a little too old for me to start following.
Quote from: KFhunter on November 18, 2015, 07:19:59 PMQuote from: jasnt on November 18, 2015, 05:48:37 PMQuote from: Gringo31 on November 18, 2015, 01:57:32 PMI'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming?i don't know about 50/50 but it has been done before. I have tried it my self but have not been successful yet. Prepare to walk a long ways and threw some nasty stuff. They don't seem to care how thick or how steep it is they just wonder up and down like its nothing. Found some tracks on a blow down yesterday but I'm thing young cougar or tom bobcat. Had to tell cause the cat was slipping as it walked. Snow was starting to melt and the trees where dripping like crazy so I lost the tracks quickly.Those tracks look a little too old for me to start following. i follow just about every cat track I come across. Dosent mater how old. Like said before you find an area the cat travels often you find a good cat spot for life. After following a lot of tracks you will see the trends. There is a cougar article in my last predator extreme about cougar hunting with hounds but in the article he mentions how he takes big mature toms in the same areas every year. You find a great area and take a mature tom be it bobcat or cougar an other mature tom will move in and use those same trails, bedding areas and hunting areas. Find an area like that and you have the chance to take a mature tom every year
Quote from: jasnt on November 18, 2015, 09:11:12 PMQuote from: KFhunter on November 18, 2015, 07:19:59 PMQuote from: jasnt on November 18, 2015, 05:48:37 PMQuote from: Gringo31 on November 18, 2015, 01:57:32 PMI'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming?i don't know about 50/50 but it has been done before. I have tried it my self but have not been successful yet. Prepare to walk a long ways and threw some nasty stuff. They don't seem to care how thick or how steep it is they just wonder up and down like its nothing. Found some tracks on a blow down yesterday but I'm thing young cougar or tom bobcat. Had to tell cause the cat was slipping as it walked. Snow was starting to melt and the trees where dripping like crazy so I lost the tracks quickly.Those tracks look a little too old for me to start following. i follow just about every cat track I come across. Dosent mater how old. Like said before you find an area the cat travels often you find a good cat spot for life. After following a lot of tracks you will see the trends. There is a cougar article in my last predator extreme about cougar hunting with hounds but in the article he mentions how he takes big mature toms in the same areas every year. You find a great area and take a mature tom be it bobcat or cougar an other mature tom will move in and use those same trails, bedding areas and hunting areas. Find an area like that and you have the chance to take a mature tom every yearSince they are an ambush predator i would imagine terrain and deer habits make a specific area very fruitful.
I know that on a few ranches they would like to come out on sunny days and lay on the hay bales. I wonder if slash piles would be similar enough? Anyone see westside cats laying up in the slash?
Quote from: Gringo31 on November 18, 2015, 01:57:32 PMI'm looking to just go out, cut a fresh track and walk it out should the snow be shallow enough.I give myself a 50/50.Am I dreaming? one of your best bets would be to cut a track walk it up till you think your are somewhat close, set up and try to call him to you. Just be more patient then we were last year! We did a set on some tracks last year called till we were bored (not long enough) went and food another set in the next canyon, came back only to find take 100 yards from our first set that walked right by my truck! Just didn't set long enough. Patients is the key, which I don't have