Thats very interesting Arteman. How big an area are we talking about for bobcats? The reason I ask is I do some scouting in the snow and when I find a cat track I will try to follow it and some will go in a straight line for a long ways. Then some just seem to walk in huge circles or criss cross all over in one small area. Is that the difference between males and females you think?
Kain, I wouldn't know how big but would guess in an area you know there is a cat if you came back enough to that spot you have seen tracks in snow, or seen a cat that eventually it will be close enough to here your calling. We never chain dogs up, we board them doing about 20 and when are reliable dogs strike we stop and they jump off and hunt for a track, usually a piss post their striking. Cats, even lions hunt the roads, during the winter you will see that they check colverts for rabbits. I know this because roads are a hound hunters enemy, if the dogs can make it off the road they will usually move a track pretty good, sometimes you'll come to a stretch of road where a cat has walked it for like 600 yards or more, weaving in and out of the road, if its a cold track this can be a nightmare, every 20 yards you get a strike, the dogs bail off and jerk off a bush with their tails going a mile a minute, yell at them to get on the box, go 20 yards and do it again. In the snow you can avoid this by driving through tell the track leaves the road. Sometimes we have gone through all that trouble to finally get it off the road and going just to have the dogs end up on the road below us doing it all over again, sometimes its better just to move on to find a better track than to waste the day away on a very cold one that's been walking the roads. Also to many times you'll put them right back in there den so home for them wasn't to far away, and you know its a cat race if the dogs are doing circles once jumped, big or small circles, good for young dogs that fall behind as that cat might get ran right back in their face, but if it takes off in a strait line for the next county start frying them but usually the older dogs will give away the younger ones when its trash. Anyways, kinda turning into a hound hunting post but I'm just telling what I know and have learned about a bobcats habits, might help with calling, Idk but i aim to find out. Kain do this next time you find a track in snow, if you see where it left the road try and get on the road below or above witch ever way it was going and find its track again. You'll be that much closer, if you cant find it then you know its probably still in there.
