Ida Coyote Coursing Season 2013-14

[skycat 6,173]

Love those rigs Just a question: how many square miles does 'the high desert' cover? Just can't get my head around the vastness of where you live/run the dogs.

[UphillDoc 278]

Skycat-We are miles apart from each other, and hunt all the ground between us. There is ALOT more ground than that though. I had an Englishman here to hunt years ago, and the thing he seemed most amazed by was the vastness...

 

Take care.

[skycat 6,173]

Thanks and WOW!

 

One thing I've always wondered is what else, apart from coyotes, live on that sort of ground. Ground hogs? But what about hares? Or something similar. It would seem strange for that kind of open land not to contain hares of some sort: they are all over the rest of the world but I don't hear of them in the US much.

There doesn't seem to be a coursing community over there: any thoughts on that?

[bird 9,872]

Brill pics , same as skycat do you get many rabbits or hares out there, as the yotes got to eat somting.? would imagine your stags would do well on rabbit+hares ,with there speed+stamina, or dont you bother and just do yotes.??

[UphillDoc 278]

skycat/bird-Our blacktail jackrabbits (hares) mostly stay where the sage is thick, so not great running. The coyotes live on mice, voles, whistle pigs (gophers), badger, antelope fawns, deer fawns, sheep and calves etc...
We run jacks on the lamp, and on the occasion we find one in the open. There are spots and folks here that just run hares.

 

Take care.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Very interesting topic mate and many thanks for posting

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

Spotlightin jack rabbits in standin on a flatbed rig aint for the faint of heart. That sumbitchin Scotty tried to kill me.

 

Of course surfin on top of the riggin box drunker than 10 Indians on tequila at 10 pm going around them curves up in them mountains aint all that safe neither. HAHA!

Edited December 2, 2013 by Dan Edwards

[southern cross 1]

seeing all this makes you realise what a sh#t country england is. we cant do hardly anything with hunting dogs anymore....... legally anyway. wink wink. your lucky to live in the land of the free cos we certainly dont. keep up the good work fellas.

[mushroom 12,878]

Spotlightin jack rabbits in standin on a flatbed rig aint for the faint of heart. That sumbitchin Scotty tried to kill me.

 

Of course surfin on top of the riggin box drunker than 10 Indians on tequila at 10 pm going around them curves up in them mountains aint all that safe neither. HAHA!

Kin eloquent and PC as always Dan FLMAO

[J Darcy 5,871]

One thing i've always wanted to know is how fast are the Pronghorns when compared to a white tail or a jackrabbit? if it were legal I'd love to have a pop at one of those 'speed-goats'...

[skycat 6,173]

Thanks for the info: damn, I wish I lived over there!

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

One thing i've always wanted to know is how fast are the Pronghorns when compared to a white tail or a jackrabbit? if it were legal I'd love to have a pop at one of those 'speed-goats'...

 

Lets just say this. Good luck catchin a white tail with a dog unless the situation is way in your dogs favor and catching a pronghorn aint friggin happening unless something goes drastically wrong for the goat.

[mushroom 12,878]

 

One thing i've always wanted to know is how fast are the Pronghorns when compared to a white tail or a jackrabbit? if it were legal I'd love to have a pop at one of those 'speed-goats'...

 

Lets just say this. Good luck catchin a white tail with a dog unless the situation is way in your dogs favor and catching a pronghorn aint friggin happening unless something goes drastically wrong for the goat.

 

You need some desert blood or a Beddywhippet mate

 

:laugh:

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

One thing i've always wanted to know is how fast are the Pronghorns when compared to a white tail or a jackrabbit? if it were legal I'd love to have a pop at one of those 'speed-goats'...

 

Lets just say this. Good luck catchin a white tail with a dog unless the situation is way in your dogs favor and catching a pronghorn aint friggin happening unless something goes drastically wrong for the goat.

 

Thanks for the reply. I've always wondered about Pronghorn. They said that the Blackbuck of India was uncatchable but I think some pure saluki's caught them by a war of attrition.

How would, say, a greyhound compare to a whitetail, speedwise? thanks JD

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

I haven't seen a dog yet that can outrun a deer that's actually moving and meaning to get away. Anybody that tells you they have I say is full of shit cuz it just don't work that way. I assume a pure greyhound that could run close to 50 or so would be about the same speed but man they wouldn't last long. Them pronghorn gotta be hittin upwards of 60 mph I'd say. All I know is they can fly!