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Tuckahoe
02-04-2009, 06:00 PM
I am very interested in bear hunting with hounds. I am presently working with a plott and a walker both are pups now but with good luck they will be the foundation of my bear dog pack. I am working them on coon right now but hope to switch them over to bear when they are a older. Plotts are known for having plenty of grit and take the chase to the bear forcing him to tree quickly.
angeluscorpion
02-04-2009, 08:11 PM
Not anyone I know. I only use calls, better sport the way I see it.
Tuckahoe
02-04-2009, 09:01 PM
How has your luck been hunting that way?
angeluscorpion
02-05-2009, 06:28 AM
I went a total of three times last season (first season) and I didn't see anything. No one killed a bear on base this year.
bearbait
02-07-2009, 07:01 PM
Hello Tuckahoe

I posted a reply to one of your other post. I hunt bear with my Plott's. I don't really care much about killing a bear. I just enjoy the running of the hounds. I don't even carry a gun most of the time. I have never had an adrenalin rush like being 10-15 feet from a pack of hounds that have a bear bayed and you have to get on your hands and knees to see which way the dogs are facing so you can tell where the bear is. We had a bear bail out of a tree last year before we could tie all the dogs back. The dogs that weren't tied caught him right in the middle of us. We didn't have a person, dog, or bear get hurt enough to go to a doctor or vet that day. We all went home, including the bear, to do it again another day. I consider that a successful hunt.
Tuckahoe
02-09-2009, 02:21 PM
Just saw the other post Bearbait. Small world. I live over on Watering Pond Rd. Lived here most of my life.
Smokey
03-09-2009, 05:42 PM
Gotta say that if you've never been with hounds you don't know what you're missing. Its not even about killing a bear. If I wanted to "kill bear" I'd lose the hounds, put out some corn and do like alot of quote unquote real hunters and sit in a tree and take'em by suprise.
No, its not about the kill. Its about trudging through some of eastern NC's thickest terrain to get eye-ball to eye-ball with a huge bear. Its about watching some of the most athletic hounds face to face baying and dodging jaws and paws. Its about time for season to come back in!!!!