Have a serious ? Bout hog dogs an mtn lions

[bayem~and~slay em]

We have a lion gettin some ppl I knows cattle an they been seein it an kno where bouts he's hangin out my dogs have never been on a big cat do u think they'd run this dude or not I'm suppose to go this week sometime or next weeken to hunt him I need some help here from some of u guys out there that knows what ur doin an talkin about not Lookin for a bunchof opinions from ppl that's never done it lol I don like my dogs to trash but I'd let em trash on a big cat in this situation ya kno so any tips or help?

[waylon-N.E. OK]

I have ran a few here at home with open mouth hounds, I'm no lion hunter but here is the only advise I have for ya, wait until it has a full belly cause the only one I ever put up had eatena huge chunk out of  a kid goat 30 mins before the others out ran my dogs and jumped into thick nasty rough country and pulled ahead of us and we never caught up and it was a long night a few times.

I bet there are some lion hunters here that will be able to help ya, I'd like to see some pics if you do

[Silverton Boar Dogs]

My Plott Catahoula crosses will run a cat. My straight Catahoulas have never shown any interest. What kind of country is this cat in?

Waylon is right you want to run them after a feed and up hill.

[bayem~and~slay em]

Well not for sure exactly on where it's at bu th general area is thick timber an crop fields all th way to th river they see this thing around 9 n th mornin ev time they've seen it the lady went outside to go to town yesterday mornin an it was starin her down lol they said where that cats hangin out there is alotta does raisin youngns n there ev year an it's destroying there calf crop so it's soundin like he's livin th life eatin all th time but the land is flat lol prob won't get him treed but may run him in th open to lay him down I would be on cloud nine if I get this cat killed but it'll prob be a big argument of who got to take him home once th warden checked it lol there are a few around idk y they haven't jus shot it yet but they asked me to try an tree him an we been gettin plenty of rain so Mayb it won't b hard to pick up a track ?!?! Idk lol I'm clueless when it comes to kitty huntin

[waylon-N.E. OK]

Find a feller in your country with some sure nuff bobcat dogs and sweet talk him into bringing them, you won't be sorry you did, let his hounds strike and tree it, then turn them curs out right before it trees to take the credit    It's a different game than baying hogs 

[bayem~and~slay em]

Shoot idk of ne one lol I know of some trashy coon hounds that'll tree cats      So if any one knows off someone around coweta oklahoma with cat dogs send em my Way

[bayem~and~slay em]

I had a cat gyp I sold while back I wish I had her still I have no doubt shed do it she loved Huntin everything an thts what pissed me off lmao she love treein squirrels an runnin anything she could if there wasn't hogs around

[Purebreedcolt]

We bayed a cat one night only two dogs of five barked the rest came back they were not trashing lol 3 hours later we picked up the two that cat flat hit the road.  That is about all I know about that but will never forget that night as long as I live

[bayem~and~slay em]

Well hopefully we either put it up a tree or run it out th country lok

[airduster29]

I start mine on wild farm cats or town cats which ever I trap them then turn loose and get the dogs trailling might try that a time or two before u go usaully dont take a good dog long to figure it out good luck and better hope it is a tom and not a mother the females can get pretty rough when she has kittens around at least in my experinces thats usaually when I get my dogs tore up

[Bump]

Im not doubting you cant run one...but the likelyhood of those people actually seeing a long tail cat is not very...especially more than once.

[SCHitemHard]

im sure if you work some trashy hounds you will tree it

[t.wilbanks]

Im not doubting you cant run one...but the likelyhood of those people actually seeing a long tail cat is not very...especially more than once.

If it was doing that much damage to their calves and they see it that often, why would they not have shot it already??  

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Since you are using hog dogs don't release all of them at once. A lion race can and will last hours
 Do not use catchy dogs either, lions will wreck dogs in the open.

[3Whoghunter]

I gotta walker/cur that can tree a cat pretty quick! Well a house cat and barn cats lol but he loves it maybe I got me a young cat dog in the making

[bayem~and~slay em]

It's my friends mom who sees it most th time she's sees it around 9 am ev time while the guys r at work we have quite a few cat around th Rivers an lakes here

[treeingratterrier]

We have a lion gettin some ppl I knows cattle an they been seein it an kno where bouts he's hangin out my dogs have never been on a big cat do u think they'd run this dude or not I'm suppose to go this week sometime or next weeken to hunt him I need some help here from some of u guys out there that knows what ur doin an talkin about not Lookin for a bunchof opinions from ppl that's never done it lol I don like my dogs to trash but I'd let em trash on a big cat in this situation ya kno so any tips or help?

  Go to the other forum, the big game forum, there are some straight cat dog packs in Oklahoma, somebody will prob come out and check tracks, usually 1 in 10,000 sightings is a actual lion, have you got pictures of tracks it left??  Any pictures??  Down here the deal with lions is straight  bobcat dogs that dont run anything especailly coons, lions dont have much wind if jumped, usually the deal is finding one in the area while hunting bobcats accidentally, once jumped down here they usually never run over 30 minutes to a hour depending on your cat dog pack, you might get lucky with cow or hog dogs if you were horseback and jumped it accidentally around a feedsite, sounds like a old worn out toothed sowcat or a whipped off tom lion or some dumb cub, i would bet its a town dog pack, most reports down here never pan out seems like, have you ever been to the big game dog forum??  There are prob lot of running walker dog packs around you, its just about over down here in south texas where i am at  Hunted with Joe Rufus Lyne, he had about 12 running walkers, million acres to hunt here and in Mexico with tons of time and money, he hunted 5 times a week every week, used to go with the auction barn owners who still had cat and lion packs down US 59 from George West to Laredo and into Old Mexico along the river and then in some where the mexican steers were bought, too dangerous to go down there any more, i think there prob more lions in mexico now in Tamps than ever since so many game ranches have gone in, Jojn Lott down here at Beeville, the other livestock owner used to cat and lion hunt tons as well, I hunted with Joe 3 years i guess before he died, usually he caight 2 to 10 lions a year and 200 bobcats depending on rain and new places to hunt, took terriers many times with those hounds for thick brush and extra treeing power, but held them back until jumped, glory days are gone gone now, last time i heard anything from Joe Rufus Lynee he was sending or about to send a couple of dogs to Rocky Mcbride, that lion hunter for the tv shows and preadtor contol hunter for the mexican cattlemans association, he is out in Alpine and owns the leghold trap plant out there and still does lion hunting on damage control, or was last i heard anything from them, they always went out and scounted if they got a lion kill call, usualy a dog or natrual cuases seemed like, but ya never know, last time somebody called his house about a lion it was a woman near his house and the lion was in a oat patch chasing stocker sick pen calves, weird for sure, ya never know, all of our country has been chained and stacked down here, few lions get shot by deer hutners but no place to hunt them year around, good luck if you need the link to that site post up and i will go find it, you might get lucky with your hog dog pack, everyting dog has treed lions at one time or another, but some do it regularly all of the time, hounds are tops

[bayem~and~slay em]

It's a mtn lion it's been seen numerous time by more than jus this family we have em all over th verdigris,  Arkansas , an grand river as well as all th lakes around it's not anything special really hearing bout sightings up here weve had em get our cattle an seen em a guy a mile from us had em gettin his too it's nothin new where we live is between two rivers so they pass thru. Alot