Question for the Bear Hunters

easttenngator · Post by **easttenngator** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:07 am

I notice that all of you get damn good pic when you run in trainning season and that you al are running durning the day. How is that ???
It get so hot here that we run at night and about the only time we do run durning the day is Kill season Oct-Dec.

Thank in advance

Ike · Post by **Ike** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:23 am

I wish we could run at night during the heat of summer but it's not legal in Utah...........

Our season starts around June 15th to August 14th with the hottest days being the first couple weeks of the season. Our monsoon rains with clouds come along around August 1st and the temperatures drop 10 or fifteen degrees, and I try and save what little running I do until then. I also will often times call my hounds back off a track if is't too slow or not send them later in the morning if they don't really scream the bear off the box. It just isn't worth killing a good hound over seeing a bear. I also have started leaving my older hounds home in the heat..............

keep'em treed,
ike

Bearhunter · Post by **Bearhunter** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:42 am

We can run here year round.We generally start around M-day.And run mainly at nite until Sept(or later if it stays hot)

walkersforlife · Post by **walkersforlife** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:42 am

We dont run at night if we can help it. WE run right away in the am, usually let go as it's breaking day, when it's cool and either tree it or pick them up before it gets to hot. 90% they are caught before 11-12

easttenngator · Post by **easttenngator** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:49 am

Ok....then making more sense now.

thanks

pete richardson · Post by **pete richardson** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:40 pm

not legal to run bear in the dark here -

we get lot of cool days --i agree , heat is hard on old dogs and dogs that are out of shape -- what we call hot , u might think was good running

--- very few days here that it isnt cool in the am - if its over 70 at daylite i normally stay home- we get weeks in a row that its 50s or even cooler at daylite
couple weeks ago-- treed a bear in the am , was 40 somethin at daylite --got home and took pups swimming in afternoon 80s

thats my kind of weather --lol ,its really not that rare here -

our bear normally have started to den by middle of october - its a freak thing in a normal year if you saw a bear track in december -

i ran a bear once when it was below zero at daylite ------------first week of november - lol

if you dont like the weather wait a minute it will change lol

you know what aggrivates me sometimes is dont strike a bear in the am when its cool -- and they seem to be all over when it gets hot -

i think the deer flies force them to move but cant prove that one -- lol

pete richardson · Post by **pete richardson** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:19 pm

oh ya--- just over two weeks till our kill season starts --lol

sep 1 -- that means our season is half over now -- it is different here -than some places - i dont look at it as training season and kill season -
- i just want to run my dogs -i like to give them 1-2 kills a year and cant see the sense in more than that-- live bear is worth more than a dead one to me --
-ive known some good hunters that never shot one --

we dont have any quotas - long kill season , i think most hunters here do a great job going easy on bear so we do have plenty to run-sorta like catch and release fishing--
if i lived in a state with short kill season or ridiculous short training season

or had to wait 5 years for a tag , id have a whole different attitude -

easttenngator · Post by **easttenngator** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:00 pm

This State will take hound days away if we dont kill enough bears as it is this year they have added two day to our season and 4 days to bow season.

To tree a bear here it better be dead, I wish we could only kill bears 250 and larger but the state need number not size,people keep building in the Mountains and see more and more bear, so we have to cull the herd,but the State has made huge tracks of land off limits, so it is like we get to run and kill the overload on the bear pop. On two mountains that we hunnt it is 2 diffenrt state (tenn and NC) so you have too make sure you are in the right state for what season it is,cause they never run together.

walkersforlife · Post by **walkersforlife** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:18 pm

I cant wait, kill season starts here in Wisconsin on the fifth...no matter what its always fun to just go up to camp and run the dogs, do nothing all day, eat lots of food drink beer tell lies haha and listen to the hounds!