“Plott Hound is a better bear dog...”
Agreed. We also raise Plotts. We currently have three; two brown Brindle and one Maltese...and is he ever HANDSOME! ;)
But, surprisingly, the best bear dogs we have right now are both Treeing Walker Coonhounds.
Osage can pick up a cold track (like 10 hours old!) with regularity, and Taylor is right beside him all the way. And she NEVER gives up! Osage ran for 10 hours this season, on a bear and finally got him treed after it ran back and forth in the same section for all that time.
Right now, we really only have two Walker Dogs that are worth a spit for raccoon hunting, and while Beau hunts them on a regular basis, he’s more into bear now, than anything else.
Would be nice if raccoon pelts were worth anything these days!
I hunted bear, coons, and hogs with Plotts years ago...My dogs were out of Gene White’s White Hollow Kennels in Knoxville, TN...
I hunted with Gene in Tennessee, North Carolina and Ontario, Canada...We hunted in the spring above you guys in Vermillion Bay, Ont. The fall, we hunted out of Haliburton in Eastern Ontario...
This was back in the late ‘70s’...