Dustin Myers
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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Bonners Ferry, ID
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I’ve hunted 9 out of the last 10 days, and it’s been kinda tough finding something to run. When I have found a track it’s been heading somewhere I can’t run. I thought my bad luck had continued when I found this track yesterday morning. There were “No Hunting” signs for a half mile along the road. It would have been pretty hard to convince anyone I didn't see the "No Hunting" sign. LOL
Then I realized that I might know who to call for permission to run through this piece of property. I made a call but couldn’t get a hold of anyone. I had no choice but to drive away frustrated. I continued on looking for tracks and about a half hour later decided to try one more time to see if I could get permission. As luck would have it I got an answer and permission to run on the property. I wasn’t sure if we would even be able to run the track, but considering how much trouble I’ve had finding something to run, I was going to give it a try.
The track appeared as though it was made early the night before. The temperature had warmed up quite a bit and the snow was starting to melt, which also meant the track was melting out. On top of that it had been raining lightly since I left the house and hadn’t stopped yet.
I knew this was gonna be a tough one, so I just got Venom out by herself to see if she could get it going. Understandably she had a pretty hard time at first, so I walked with her for a ways until she was able move it on her own. She started opening and moving the track out, even though it was still melted and didn’t look any better to me.
We were side hilling across the mountain while going up and down through a bunch of small finger ridges and ravines. When the track would get down in the bottoms of the draws where the snow was deeper, she would open better and move it pretty well. When it climbed up on the ridge tops where the snow was more melted she would have a harder time. By now I was far enough from the truck that I decided to continue on behind her. She gradually started to pick up her pace moving the track out and was just about out of hearing when I heard her jump the lion. It wasn’t long and I heard a couple of locates and she settled in and treed. At this point we were two hours into the hunt. It took me another half hour to get to her and she never missed a beat.
Here’s a cell phone video I took when I was about 300 yds from the tree.
Two and a half hours after we had started, I arrived at the tree. The cat was acting kinda nervous and I figured he was probably gonna jump out as I got close to the tree.
I eased in slowly and took a few pictures as I went. Then I decided to try to get in under the tree and get Venom caught and tied before he jumped out. Luckily he decided to stay put, but he displayed his irritation with hissing and low pitched growls the whole time I was there. With Venom tied up to make sure I wouldn’t have to chase her further around the mountain if he did decide to bail out. I was able to get some better pics of the cat and Venom both.
Not Happy
Idaho Lightfoot Venom
Fortunately I was able to call my dad and have him come pick me up, so I could drop straight down the mountain to the road, instead of having to side hill all the way back across to my truck. We definitely had to work for this one, but I walked away from the tree very pleased and proud of the job Venom had done.
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