Couple bears up yesterday
Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:00 pm
Myself, a buddy and Houndogger went out on a bear tear yesterday.
Early in the a.m we let out on a solid strike and the bear took the dogs down the mountain. Not many trees below and tons of thick bush, stuff you cant see your hand in. We had a good vantage point to listen to the race and they were slowly moving it. The bear did a few big long loops and it was obvious treeing was not part of his plan, he was a mean walking bear.
We tried to cut him off while crossing a road and the dogs had been quiet for a while, we figured they'd quit because the Astro said they were 100 yards away. We could hear them walking through the bush towards us.
Then out pops the bear, looking right at me from 10 yards.
I said "thats a bear!" lol
The dogs were about 30 yards behind it and piped up again and took it half way back up the mountain again.
Once again we tried to cut it off so we split up. Trav walked in on the few dogs he could hear and he said Harlo, daisey had it bayed against a cluster of shrubs/bush. None were barking when he got there, just growling at it from about 10 feet away and the bear was growling and popping back at the dogs. Would have loved to seen that, as far as I know that was the first bay up they've been on.
He called us on the radio and we whipped down and walked in to decide if we were going to shoot this bear and they had ended the standoff and were gone. Few mins later they showed up on the road, I guess they quit.
In the process trav got stung in the forehead right where a paki dot would be and I got tagged in the temple
Couple dogs got nailed good too.
Anyways we eventually found the other dogs, loaded up and set off to find another bear but it was smokin hot by now, so we called it a day til afternoon and hung out for 4 hours by water and shade. We set out again around 5 pm.
First road we checked had a lil guy standing staring at us in a slash. Trav 'aimed" buck at it and he took the others in tow, quick 100 yard pop up and he climbed higher than I;ve ever seen a bear or any trainer for that matter, climb!
Let them tree for 30 mins and went looking for another.
Got another strike shortly after and dumped all 8 dogs again and they had a hard time getting it started, they were really spread out.
The wind was blowing good and they struck it a good couple hundred yards frok where it was bedded. I think a few of the dogs got hung up on the lingering scent from where they jumped it.
Took about 20 mins for them to really get on it and start moving it but they did. This bear covered about 5-6 kms and the same kind of race slow and steady. We got to see it cross once but the dogs were a good 30 seconds behind it and spread out even more than when they started.
Watched the show on the Astro, split up again to try and cut the bear off and about an hour later I heard tree barks 400 yards in through the nastiest stuff I've walked/crawled/tripped through in a while.
That bear was hyperventilating something crazy in the tree. I notice in the pics he's beside a wasp nest, surprised we didnt get stung again
http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/ ... V02188.flv
The dogs did well today, couldn't have been happier.
Early in the a.m we let out on a solid strike and the bear took the dogs down the mountain. Not many trees below and tons of thick bush, stuff you cant see your hand in. We had a good vantage point to listen to the race and they were slowly moving it. The bear did a few big long loops and it was obvious treeing was not part of his plan, he was a mean walking bear.
We tried to cut him off while crossing a road and the dogs had been quiet for a while, we figured they'd quit because the Astro said they were 100 yards away. We could hear them walking through the bush towards us.
Then out pops the bear, looking right at me from 10 yards.
I said "thats a bear!" lol
The dogs were about 30 yards behind it and piped up again and took it half way back up the mountain again.
Once again we tried to cut it off so we split up. Trav walked in on the few dogs he could hear and he said Harlo, daisey had it bayed against a cluster of shrubs/bush. None were barking when he got there, just growling at it from about 10 feet away and the bear was growling and popping back at the dogs. Would have loved to seen that, as far as I know that was the first bay up they've been on.
He called us on the radio and we whipped down and walked in to decide if we were going to shoot this bear and they had ended the standoff and were gone. Few mins later they showed up on the road, I guess they quit.
In the process trav got stung in the forehead right where a paki dot would be and I got tagged in the temple
Couple dogs got nailed good too.Anyways we eventually found the other dogs, loaded up and set off to find another bear but it was smokin hot by now, so we called it a day til afternoon and hung out for 4 hours by water and shade. We set out again around 5 pm.
First road we checked had a lil guy standing staring at us in a slash. Trav 'aimed" buck at it and he took the others in tow, quick 100 yard pop up and he climbed higher than I;ve ever seen a bear or any trainer for that matter, climb!
Let them tree for 30 mins and went looking for another.
Got another strike shortly after and dumped all 8 dogs again and they had a hard time getting it started, they were really spread out.
The wind was blowing good and they struck it a good couple hundred yards frok where it was bedded. I think a few of the dogs got hung up on the lingering scent from where they jumped it.
Took about 20 mins for them to really get on it and start moving it but they did. This bear covered about 5-6 kms and the same kind of race slow and steady. We got to see it cross once but the dogs were a good 30 seconds behind it and spread out even more than when they started.
Watched the show on the Astro, split up again to try and cut the bear off and about an hour later I heard tree barks 400 yards in through the nastiest stuff I've walked/crawled/tripped through in a while.
That bear was hyperventilating something crazy in the tree. I notice in the pics he's beside a wasp nest, surprised we didnt get stung again
http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f314/ ... V02188.flv
The dogs did well today, couldn't have been happier.