Gary Roberson
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Registered: Jun 2007
Location: Menard,TX
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Partner,
Do you mean distance or time? Coyotes can cover miles while cats tend to run in small thick cover around here.
We dumped the hounds on a cat that I had called up about two months ago. It was 92 degrees and the humidity was in the 80's. We ran that cat off and on for two hours and 18 minutes and did not catch him. Finally, the dogs played out and started filtering back to the truck.
We were shooting for the TV show and need the cat in a tree so that our hunter could shoot it with a bow. I was afraid that the dogs were so beat that they would not be able to go the next morning. We cleaned their eyes up and dumped them out to road and loosen them up. After about a mile, the dogs struck a good track had him jumped in a couple of minutes and ran her for 48 minutes without making a loose before she treed.
The longest I have ever run a cat (and I mean run without any major looses with running walker type hounds) was an hour and 15 minutes. Normally, in my country, if I really pressure a cat without a major loose or two, 20 minutes is a long race. A cat does not have the big lung capacity that a coyote or even coon has.
The longest race I have heard of on a coyote started at sundown one evening and ended almost 50 mile away the next mroning about 7:00 a.m. when the workers started showing up at the D'hanis brick plant. One lemon spotted gyp finished the race with the coyote bayed under the office building. MY Great Uncle A. E. Outlaw was the hunter.
Adios,
Gary
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