Mike Leonard interview part one- meat 'n tatas
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- I sat down to talk with dry ground lion guru Mike Leonard. Mike is a thoughtful cat, a student of hound lore, Western culture, and the wild.
We touch on some of the hard subjects in hound hunting: dogs getting hurt, culling, and the suffering of our quarry. I believe that the future of hound hunting depends on our inclusion of the non-hunting public in what we do- thoughtful, nuanced discussion to help non-hunters see our love for the hounds, the animals we pursue, and that hound-hunting can play a vital role in ecosystem health and wildlife conservation.
If you think that the undecided majority don't consider the suffering of bears, you're wrong. By acknowledging our kinship to the creatures we hunt, we can begin to explain the role the smaller suffering we cause plays in managing populations, ameliorating human-wildlife conflict, supporting conservation, and bringing home the "greenest", healthiest sustenance imaginable to our families.
If we don't convey the complex but necessary realities of these subjects to non-hunters, it leaves space for anti-hunting groups to leap in, and fuel the worst imaginings of the public with graphic videos shared by the few black sheep of the hunting community.
After a winter of snow hunting, I’ve started using Mike’s training technique to start my dogs on dry ground. It’s not easy to get the dogs to slow down. One thing I have learned is to exercise my dogs before I put them on the scent trail so they’re not so apt to over run the trail.
I have started putting the better performing dog out first followed by the next best performing and so on. I feel like the less performing dog will try harder, so they can catch up to their buddies. Once they’re all trailing good, I change up the order that I put them out to give them confidence.
I am in a similar boat, let me know how that strategy works out. I recently hunted with a friend of Mike's who taught me to slow down and really give the dogs time to sniff around. If they have hunt, and they have time, it seems like they'll work for a track. An old dog would help as well lol
Good interview. Couldn't agree more with the thoughts and sentiments expressed here.
Thanks for the support.
Game and fish definitely needs more input from local Houndsmen in Zone I. In three or four years the female sub limit it’s been fill and closing the zone in January, this year is been the opposite because I think there not the many females this year, they been thin out by outfitters, they do exactly what Mike is saying, they come they kill anything that climbs up and usually females, they have two or three guys that they pay a few dollars to cut roads for them, they close the zone and move on the the next one, game and fish should do the something similar like they do for the rest of the big game hunt draw where outfitters only get a percentage of the lions harvest, and leaving the rest for the non outfitters that have to have regular jobs and hunt weekend, it’s not fair for locals or their hounds for hunting opportunity’s.
I like the idea of outfitters being limited to a particular "home-ground"- encouraging them to manage their neck of the woods for the future.
Not opposed on killing a female here and there, everything needs to get managed, it would be good if Houndsmen get on the same page and harvest mature Toms, not opposed for outfitters to make a living, a lot of us that hunt dogs guide elk and deer and ones in a while a lion hunt, and is always good to be upfront with clients to make sure they know that a mature Tom lion is the trophy they want to harvest and stick with it, there’s some outfitters that do mainly the local ones, but Usually not the ones that come from some place elsewhere, it seems that we preaching to the choir but most of the time is the choir that needs to hear the message.
Life is not as easy when you love animals, never a tool, and as I got older, I did not want to pull the trigger on a big game animal, on a hunt, so I don’t ☺️ .Putting a animal down, is tough, at times a must. Thanks 🤠
Yessir, that is true. My feeling is that life entails suffering, whether you are the one pulling the trigger or not, so if I can kill my prey as humanely as possible that is the best option.
@@kyledartnell Eggzactly….we do what we have too ! When it comes to animals, I am getting softer….! Thx
Be tasteful kids