Interesting read. Gone are the good days in Oregon when bear were considered predators, no tag needed, no harvest limit, I was lucky to get in on the last few years of that. Now it is illegal to run bear with a dog unless you are federal wildlife specialist or government agent. Yet last I read there...

Yes Tom was a real woodsman. This hunt is a real good example of that. We started a track on the 3000 line just of the Coldiron ranch property. Very quickly the dogs were on the Fred Waterman property in the bottom of Myrtle creek and began walking and baying. That is one very rough piece of realast...

Thinking back, need to add a few words to the bear in fish hook cedar. Suppose that was the first time I had witnessed dogs have to grind out an old track move it and get treed. Those dogs had exciting voices with a couple screamers that added excitement to the sound. I had hunted with some type of ...

Clarence Berg & Tom Barnette surprised me early one morning when they stopped by & invited me to go with them on a bear hunt. I had never been bear hunting and was eager to go. We were hunting on Coldiron Ranch. There must have been at least 500 head of sheep plus the cattle on that ranch. T...

I am guessing the year was 1972. No, never had any more encounters with that lady. I never got to really know her, but from other locals all I heard about her was very positive comments. While she was upset at me for allowing my dogs to chase that cat, as soon as deacon fell from that rock she said ...

I sit here looking out dinning room window, to the west few hundred away,see a large rock that reminds of a bobcat hunt that happened many years ago. Started out as morning hunt before working swing shift in the pm. I had roaded deacon & chub a short distance up Johnson Mt. road when they starte...

Thanks for the information, interesting read, sounds like hogs are more intelligent than anything I ever hunted. Bear hunt here in this steep, brushy, huge rock terrain is just plain hard dangerous work. The hunts I wrote about were all larger fat bear that covered less ground than most of the small...

Interesting read, never hog hunted. Are you able to hog hunt year round? Can you make any money catching & selling feral hogs? Is the meat as good as tame hogs? I can/t say the critters I have hunt one sex was more elusive than the other. Bobcats can get educated fast, learning how to elude the ...

Interesting read, never hog hunted. Are you able to hog hunt year round? Can you make any money catching & selling feral hogs? Is the meat as good as tame hogs? I can/t say the critters I have hunt one sex was more elusive than the other. Bobcats can get educated fast, learning how to elude the ...

This hunt we are leaving the Coquille River water shed, taking about a 40 mile trip over a high mountain into the Rogue River Water shed, hunting near a small community called Agness Or. I sure it was a Labor Day weekend, thinking 1972. I had worked a swing shift but was up & ready when Tom Barn...

Yes assume that is what happened. Thinking back Leon/s redtick was rather large dog named Duke. Believe Duke was the first box dog I had ever seen or heard of. Bill/s dog that got hurt the worst called champ, good looking walker dog. Can/t be certain if that hunt took place in late spring or fall, d...

Sorry correct spelling Bill McSpirit

Think it was late spring 1969, Leon Elliott stopped by to invite to join he and Bill McSpirett for a bear hunt. He had spent the day trying to kill a bear that was killing sheep on the Dement Ranch, Stated his dogs had bayed the bear several times but he had turned his ankle bad & was unable to ...

Bobcat hunting is the biggest challenge of all the critters I have experienced. Friend & i had ran a bobcat more times than like admit, it was about 10 am or so & don/t think we had found a track after roading all dogs for couple hrs. decided to box for a spell. We had boxed couple dogs up a...

Heck muleman, I could never write a book, but, will tell you another true story. By time this hunt took place i had dogs that did not run bear. The dogs I had on this hunt was a larger male called Mac, he was the pup that Ted gave me, female called tiny she was the dog I told that was able to run a ...