The most exciting hunt to date.
I was chilling doing some hw on a snowing afternoon (which is rare for this southern region I am in). When my buddy calls me and says we should drive around tomorrow and try to cut a track. I agreed to skip class and go out the next morning. (11pm) I went to the back yard and tried to Broadhead tune my bow and got it as close as I could. I even broke an arrow.... in the process. (12am) I started packing my cold gear and getting the truck ready. (230am) I woke up and jumped in the truck. What was a 30 minute drive turned into a 1.5 hour drive through the icy roads. We saw some cat hunters arriving right behind us so we loaded up and made it to the trail before any of them. (5am) We cut a nice track and hopped out to get an idea of where it was going. When all of a sudden another cat hunter shows up behind us so we hopped in the car and kept driving. (530am) We cut another track a few miles away... we decided to go back to the first track and wait until legal light to release the dogs. As we drove back we ran into 2 more cat hunters that were late. (7am)We let the hounds out and they take off strong on the tracks. (730) They had the cat treed (nothing beats the sound of hounds). I placed an arrow in the chest and the cat expired seconds later on the tree. I had to climb up to get it down. On to the next track. We made it to the seconds track and release the hounds. They trailed the cat of 12 mile until it was treed. They did a good job of staying focused on the cat track when they ran through a herd of elk. (2pm) The second cat was treed and we had to hike a few miles in because they conveniently treed it on a saddle. My buddy took the second cougar. What a hunt, totally worth ditching classes, after all it is senior year. Had to read up on CA laws regarding this... the tanned hide will have to stay with my brother here.
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(Cat #2)
I was chilling doing some hw on a snowing afternoon (which is rare for this southern region I am in). When my buddy calls me and says we should drive around tomorrow and try to cut a track. I agreed to skip class and go out the next morning. (11pm) I went to the back yard and tried to Broadhead tune my bow and got it as close as I could. I even broke an arrow.... in the process. (12am) I started packing my cold gear and getting the truck ready. (230am) I woke up and jumped in the truck. What was a 30 minute drive turned into a 1.5 hour drive through the icy roads. We saw some cat hunters arriving right behind us so we loaded up and made it to the trail before any of them. (5am) We cut a nice track and hopped out to get an idea of where it was going. When all of a sudden another cat hunter shows up behind us so we hopped in the car and kept driving. (530am) We cut another track a few miles away... we decided to go back to the first track and wait until legal light to release the dogs. As we drove back we ran into 2 more cat hunters that were late. (7am)We let the hounds out and they take off strong on the tracks. (730) They had the cat treed (nothing beats the sound of hounds). I placed an arrow in the chest and the cat expired seconds later on the tree. I had to climb up to get it down. On to the next track. We made it to the seconds track and release the hounds. They trailed the cat of 12 mile until it was treed. They did a good job of staying focused on the cat track when they ran through a herd of elk. (2pm) The second cat was treed and we had to hike a few miles in because they conveniently treed it on a saddle. My buddy took the second cougar. What a hunt, totally worth ditching classes, after all it is senior year. Had to read up on CA laws regarding this... the tanned hide will have to stay with my brother here.
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