Message #79464

[walkerchaser85]

When I hunt in idaho with hounds I wont turn my dogs out unless I know the track is from within 24 hours or so, even then you have to stay with the dogs no matter what the terrain, idaho is not flat like texas, if you relesed a dog on a seven day old track you probably wont even get a bark out of the best hound on that old of a track.And if your best dog does take the track you will regret ever putting that dog on the ground, if your lucky the wolves wont find him before you can get a cat up a tree.The only way to really age tracks in Idaho is hunt fresh snow from the night before, when you cut a track and turn the dogs out you can be sure that it is fresh and your dogs have a chance of catching up and treeing the cat.
                                                                           Jason