TOM

[NoBull350]

I was out looking for antlers and came across a nice lion track . We went out the next morning and after a few mile hike the dogs picked up the sent . We cold trailed for about a mile then the wind came up and they lost it . The next day the wind was terrible but the forecast called for some rain . It rained off and on most of the night but stopped about 3am We loaded up the dogs and got to where we thought the lion might be headed around 5:30am . As luck would have it after a short hike the dogs picked up the sent and the race was on ! Mr Tom was treed and freed .

[Coues7777]

Awesome 

[NoBull350]

3 minutes ago, Coues7777 said:

Awesome 

Thanks 

[Roosevelt Mark]

Wow.

[KoosCrazy]

Nice catch, you should have skinned him though. 

[bonecollector]

Thats a good looking Lion.

[lancetkenyon]

That photo of the dog up in the tree with the cat above him is awesome.  Great looking dogs.  Walkers?

[duckhunter175]

Very cool!

[pwrguy]

one ticked off kitty cat

[tontotom]

Nice cat and catch, love your dogs.

[NoBull350]

13 hours ago, lancetkenyon said:

That photo of the dog up in the tree with the cat above him is awesome.  Great looking dogs.  Walkers?

Thanks . The two high tans have a little bit of everything in them . Trevor Nelson and Hunter Dewitt spent years and years mixing and matching different blood lines . Then Hunter took it up another notch and bred a dog to one of Trevor mineers red ticks named  faith  which came from van johnson blood . The results on that cross were phenomenal. Those dogs are only 18 months old . That walker looking dog is actually a red tick and 10 months old. I bought his mom from a guy out of Nevada she looks like an English to me but was told she was a red tick . I picked up his dad from Trevor Mineer at about a year old . He was by far the best dog I have ever owned . Unfortunately I was chasing a lion and it decided to cross the highway . I could see on my gps they were headed toward the highway so I toned them and they turned around and started heading back . I ran back to my truck and started headed their way and lost gps signal . When I picked them up on the gps it showed all the dogs treed right at the highway . I figured the lion must not have wanted to cross . Well copper dog wasn’t about to quit that lion and had turned around at some point and Was hit by a car . I still get sick when I think about losing him. He was more than just a dog he was my friend and taught me more than I could have ever taught him . 

[NoBull350]

37 minutes ago, tontotom said:

Nice cat and catch, love your dogs.

Thanks 

[firstcoueswas80]

*Scent 

[Hrsbkhntr]

Nice catch. How do you feel about the new guidelines and current closures?

[lionhunter]

well done.  Tree climbing dogs make for cool pictures, but man have I seen that go bad many times!!  Congrats on the lion.

(I like that you referred to those dogs as high tans, not a lot of guys do.)

Good hunting

Whitey