wildbill
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Originally posted by Glenn Wells
wildbill - The only way I ever found to get into a tree at night with a cat up it, without it bailing was to turn your light off a good ways off, and try walking in blind. As they didn't have a open season at the time, the idea was to be able to catch the dogs without walking a couple more miles to the next tree. At night they seemed to watch the lights coming and would wait till you were about 50 - 75 yards off at which time you could hear them jump and then the dogs screaming off after them. The couple we treed years ago, after getting into tree without lights, and getting leashes on dogs, the three of us turned lights on shined up basicly all around tree and the cat stayed where he was, would have been an easy take. One guy hunting with us that night stood about 7' feet tall, a pair of hipboots looked like knee boots on him. We didn't tell him why we were walking in blind, figured he had hunted long enough to know after having the critter to bail 2 times before when we got to a certain distance away. When the light went on, and he saw that bobcat looking down it done something to him as he was off just as fast as those long legs could move.... had to bring his dog out, as he didn't bother grabbing his leash when he passed by. It took us 15 minutes to catch up with him, had he knew exactly where the trucks where parked, I doubt that we would have caught him then !
the one old dog i had here that died a few yrs ago at 14 yrs old .
if he caught wind of a bobcat ,he was after it the rest of the night if you didnt cut his trail and run him down and catch him and go somewhere else ,he got after his first cat at around 15-16 months old and was hooked after that night,,him and a double rocky redtick and a tn.lead/s.c.radar male ran that cat for close to 10 hrs before they put the cat into the ground sometime around daylight,they had mud on there collars and their ears and lips had what looked like needle holes in them when i tracked them down with the beepbeep when it got daylight,
they must have pulled the cat out of the hole as the one dog had scratch marks down his chest/belly,,the other 2 dogs being good kill dogs also may have saved him from getting his guts riped out by the cats back feet,as i heard they will roll over and gut a dog with the back feet if they get the chance..
we think old joe and another dog caught one when it bailed out one night as we started to the tree and bang all hellbroke loose then they got silent when we were close to the tree and the dogs came back to us all happy like and joe had a big cut on top of his head..i wanted to go look for the kill but the guy that i was hunting with said he thought he knew what it was and we didnt want to be caught near it in case a warden happened along as they were protected in ohio,,i caught the drift of what he was saying so we got out of their proto..
i still have 4 dogs out of that old dog but so far they havent taken alikeing to cats,,thank god/my legs couldnt take it now..
as we killed our leggs trying to sneak into the trees,but it was so dark that night you couldnt see your hand in frount of your face,and seemed like they only got after them cats on the dark nights after that,makeing it a bad night and we'd have to cirle around and cut the dogs off if we wanted to coonhunt anymore that night
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