I prefer a good old-fashioned flare....
Posted on 08/09/2020 5:28:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Black Bear hunting may be the most varied kind of hunting on the planet and it’s a very different hunting experience to every person you talk to. It could mean hunting over bait or spot and stalk, with boats or with hounds, arrows or bullets, public land or private. It could be within an hour’s drive of home or an all-out Alaskan adventure.
In the last three years, I’ve tried most of the methods and I’ve brought home two black bears. Whatever you think you know about each of those methods, don’t judge them until you’ve tried them yourself. Hunting bears with whatever method or tool is just not as easy as it sounds.
Hunting with hounds and horses in Idaho, for instance, is one of the biggest adventures you can have.
Regarding Hounds
The first thing you need to know is that hound hunting means working with highly skilled individuals — both the dogs and the owners. The dogs have been trained to find and follow the scent of bears. The seven Treeing Walker hounds I’ve worked with also pursue cougars and bobcats.
The dogs run around and around sniffing the ground looking for bears. Once they find a scent that is fresh enough to be exciting, they sound off making a big noise to let you know they’re onto something. They take off barking along the trail, hoping they’re going the right direction, and coming back to go the other way to find the freshest scent.
The dogs are going and going, trying to get close to a bear and chasing it until it climbs a tree to get away from the dogs. Bears run faster than dogs, but they know dogs don’t climb trees, so they’ll take refuge up a tree until the dogs leave.
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Yeah, I think They were made by Quackenbush..(?)
Just bookmarked it.
Fascinating!
I believe in reincarnation and I think that I lived in the Old West.
I am drawn to that period in time.
nice read BUT you never shoot the bear out with dogs still treeing under the tree ( you can guess why )..ya got to leash them and pulled them off the tree...that will put hair on your chest pulling dogs off a bear tree...a skinned bear looks like a skinned human being...still have a bear penis tooth pick...we have some real bear dog persons in this forum
Why did the bear have a BB gun?
BFL. But I can say, I caught the ricochet from my old Daisy lever-action BB rifle when I was a kid (it’s still functional and in my late dad’s old bedroom closet, BTW) and it stung like hell.
I believe in it too! We are in a minority here on FR! ;)
I prefer a good old-fashioned flare....
Be thankful it was only a bear with a bb gun and not a bear with a high powered rifle! Us more heavily armed bears are not so easy!
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