Virginia trainin season

[Bayemup34]

6 day. This will definitely be the longest week of my life.

[Bayemup34]

5

[Bayemup34]

Supposed to be down in the lower 80s saturday, lookin good lookin good.

[Bayemup34]

Well first day wasnt great. Ran probably 5 tracks but got out ran every time. Hopin to try again this afternoon.

[Bearhunter247]

Anybody on here tree 1

[dhostetler]

Well first day wasnt great. Ran probably 5 tracks but got out ran every time. Hopin to try again this afternoon.

Just curious on these 5 tracks that you got outrun on. I have only one pack of bear dogs and if I get outrun on one track I am usually wiped out for the day but I also am usually to stubborn to give up as I think all bears should be able to be treed or bayed. Do you pull your dogs off if they get into an area you don't want to run or they don't tree quick? Not trying to find fault with your dogs or hunting method, just curious.

[Bayemup34]

Well usually the sorry mutts come out or lay down when theyre done. We very rarely catch them off unless they just for some reason have no clue where it went. Its more of just theyre not in shape. Give it a week or two and it wont be happenin anymore, theyre just fat cuz they aint been hunted since january. Mine has, but most of the other guys havent so we got out ran.

[Bearhunter247]

We have a large crew with quite a few dogs. We either pack on or if the dogs running quit in a bad spot find another. 95% of our hunting is on foot not much riggin here so when we go walkin it's usually 5-15 dogs goin with us depending on wat dogs are able to from the day before

[Bayemup34]

Anybody been havin any luck? I didnt get to make it yesterday or today bcuz of school but the guys I hunt with hunted today and said they caught one on the ground and I think another boy treed one by himself.

[Bayemup34]

Friday while I was playin school boy, they treed one and ran another all day. Yesterday we spent all day chasin dogs that ended up in no mans land.

[Bayemup34]

Anybody been treein any? We've treed a few so far but most of em in our "traditional hunting grounds" have just been playin Forrest Gump. Running and running and running. Had a few dogs get tore up pretty bad a couple different times. Think it was the same bear every time cuz he ran the exact same way and somebody noticed hes got a bum leg. Could be why he dont take too kindly to gettin run. Been huntin a good bit here around the house which is new to us this year and theyve been fairly easy to tree except the one this mornin that ran I think 10 miles total. All in all been havin pretty good luck this year. Anybody else?

[bearsnva]

PM sent.

[Bearhunter247]

Haw'd y'all finish out the season we treed 16 total an had great luck with no dogs to the vet until Friday 11 dogs got tore up and a older dog got killed. A lil 140ish pounder with a bad attitude

[Bayemup34]

We finished out treein 22 I think and ran (seein it and knowin for a fact it was a bear) who knows how many more.