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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: bankwalker on January 14, 2012, 10:45:22 PM

Title: its time to cut tracks!
Post by: bankwalker on January 14, 2012, 10:45:22 PM: I finally got the first snow of the year here in Matlock. I know where a few cats have hanging out and now its game on. Fresh snow on the ground and I'm stoked to Chase these cats :drool:

Wish me luck. Not that ill need it ;) *wishful thinking on not needing it*
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Post by: PolarBear on January 14, 2012, 10:47:49 PM: Go get em'!
I've done well around Matlock for bobbies and coyotes, especially up the 630 and 700 roads above canyon river.
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Post by: oldleclercrd on January 14, 2012, 11:14:00 PM: Goodluck!
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Post by: Turner89 on January 14, 2012, 11:22:12 PM: I'm doing the same thing tomorrow. Gonna check cameras than look for some cat tracks. Last time I found some tracks I followed them untill he walked out of snow line.
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Post by: JJB11B on January 14, 2012, 11:24:01 PM: Doing that monday and tuesday...
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on January 14, 2012, 11:24:55 PM: GL :tup:
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Post by: JJB11B on January 14, 2012, 11:29:09 PM: I have been waiting for the stars to align so that I have fresh snow on the ground on my days off, and I have been battling a nasty cold so I havent felt like doing anything before or after work
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Post by: Turner89 on January 14, 2012, 11:49:09 PM: Has any of you had any luck on the west side tracking down and shooting a cat? With out dogs!
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Post by: DoubleJ on January 15, 2012, 07:53:46 AM: Quote from: bankwalker on January 14, 2012, 10:45:22 PM
I finally got the first snow of the year here in Matlock. I know where a few cats have hanging out and now its game on. Fresh snow on the ground and I'm stoked to Chase these cats :drool:

Wish me luck. Not that ill need it ;) *wishful thinking on not needing it*

Missed out on giving you a call. Just got real busy this week. The boy and I are going to walk some logging land around here to see if we can rustle up something. Let us know how you do.
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Post by: danderson on January 15, 2012, 08:01:48 AM: Good luck trying to sneek up on a cougar, they will always be one step ahead of you. :chuckle:
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Post by: billythekidrock on January 15, 2012, 08:08:10 AM: Quote from: JJB11B on January 14, 2012, 11:24:01 PM
Doing that monday and tuesday...

Monday or Tues will be better for cutting tracks. Kinda hard to track when the snow is falling and most critters will hunker down for a bit anyway.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 15, 2012, 08:25:39 AM: we finally got snow here in skagit ...I may need to go and find one myself .... I will be tracking them down too !! :chuckle:
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Post by: bankwalker on January 15, 2012, 09:05:02 AM: I got out early and drove a 25 mile loop in the Skok, wynoochee, Satsop units (its nice living in the middle of 3 gmus) and didn't cut any cougar tracks. I did bust a cap in a couple coyotes :tup:
The snow was falling fast enough that it could cover tracks in a few minutes.

Goin back out on the quads later to cover more ground. I got all my lights with new batteries and my pack packed. 100% prepared to spend all night tracking if i have to
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Post by: CementFinisher on January 15, 2012, 05:09:10 PM: Ran alot of roads in the kapowsin- eatonville hancock land. Seen lots of animals, cut one older cat track. Lots of other critters were moving though. the elk have been busy the past 5 days, must have known this was coming. good luck all.
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Post by: JJB11B on January 15, 2012, 10:42:34 PM: So It sucks that kitty kat season is over....I guess I could go look for a bobcat
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Post by: CementFinisher on January 15, 2012, 10:50:34 PM: Quote from: JJB11B on January 15, 2012, 10:42:34 PM
So It sucks that kitty kat season is over....I guess I could go look for a bobcat

Kitty cat season is good till march 31st in the coastal, puget sound, north cascades, and columbia basin zone
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Post by: JJB11B on January 15, 2012, 10:59:09 PM: but not in the Blue Mountains :(
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Post by: CementFinisher on January 15, 2012, 11:01:07 PM: Love the blues. went up there for the first time this year, spent ten days horse packed in for deer season. amazing!
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Post by: JJB11B on January 15, 2012, 11:14:04 PM: It would be a lot better If we had deer and elk to hunt here, Dang wolves, cougars, and bigfoots ate em all
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Post by: CementFinisher on January 16, 2012, 02:23:09 PM: Yea :chuckle: exactly :chuckle:Theyve all been pushed out to the Colockum