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Idcurs wrote:If you want to catch it really matters!!!I have glassed bears in a prickly pear patch eating pears and heard the hounds coming and the bears left when they heard the hounds,23 minutes later the hounds got to the patch.I don't want to give a bear a head start like that.Western bears are thin and cover a hell of a lot country in 23 minutes.

Umm, yeah must be a difference between ID and WI. If our bears started running every time they heard a dog they wouldn't stop moving from July to Oct. Have seen many a dog that was silent until jump and honestly couldn't see noticeable difference in catch rates. Might matter elsewhere but not here. Bears that run, run. You generally turn the tide on them in the year when dogs get skinny from running and the bear fatten up. Until then be prepared to get spanked from time to time. Personally I prefer a little noise, makes it fun. Otherwise it feels like driving with the radio off or watching TV with no sound. Not my deal. Probably would be if it meant I caught more though.

I know this is a old post. There is many different types of BMCs some of them tree very well they’re not all yellow I have mostly Red or Brindle colored dogs. I’ve got some that tree very good they’re very hard tree dogs and some of mine are semi open on track. I grew up running fox and coyote hounds I prefer a dog that opens some I don’t want a babbler but some barking on track doesn’t hurt. My dogs are Carnathan and Big Thicket cross BMCs. They have Markleys Lobo, Markleys Shoshone Trapper in them they were tree dogs. They have the East Texas Big Thicket dogs in them Hart, Shives, Ricky Driver, and others that descended from the Big Thicket Dogs.