Just going through some phone pictures of this last season and thought I'd post this moment with my little Carly. That day was our first double. The second one treed in some rough back-country, so it made for long hours getting back to the truck where "dumb dad" had left the phone. Other than a ...

What an awesome thread.

Thanks Andy. If you happen to run into the fella I got him from, be sure and thank him for parting with that walker pup 4 years ago. He's been worth his weight in gold.

Thanks. Hydro 1, that tom bleeding on Casey came in just under 170 on an empty stomach. The two pictures above that one, though, of the sway-backed tom in a tree, are an entirely different cat (a couple of the pics ended up out of order). You have a good eye, as I am pretty sure that sway-backed tom ...

Thought I'd share few pics of the fun we had this season (a few left on camera from last season too)--some of these were taken on cell phone and look a little rough--it's sometimes difficult to remember the good camera:

http://s4.postimg.org/lwh71axe5/2014_2015_Pictures_143.jpg

http://s28 ...

I'll just add my voice to Justin's and Duane's. I am not currently on the board of MSHA, but I was when we pushed hard for the bear bill last go-around. MSHA members and other houndsmen around the state couldn't have made a better case for the previous bill. As far as negativity, there was only one ...

What was the weight on it?

Skinned him out, so I don't know exact weight (I've found my internal scale is no good--and varies a lot by how tired I am when picking him up). You can't tell real well from pictures, but he'd been working a scrape line pretty hard for a couple days and his stomach was ...

I was looking through some pictures and thought I'd share a few from one of our hunts in January. We hunted this Tom for three days before bagging him. We cut his old track after treeing and releasing one of his females a few days earlier. His oversized prints convinced us to add a few days to our ...

dhostetler wrote:

Some more ammunition:
According to testimony on HB33 by Ken McDonald the, Wildlife Division Administrator, in 2012 FWP & Wildlife Services responded to
113 wolf incidents
195 lion incidents
661 Black Bear Incidents
138 Grizzly Bear incidents

I'd say that's pretty good ammo.

The FWP needs to have it explained to them this bill does not force them to implement a bear hunt state wide but allows them to control bear population using hound hunts and allows them to implement hound hunts where they are needed. They should also know that hunting with hounds already occurs ...

Keep us in your prayers. We have an extreme uphill battle in Montana because hound hunting bears was never allowed since they came out with the law in the earlier 1900s, and there are a lot of bunny huggers here and Retired Californians (no offense intended to the good houndsmen from that state ...

I was wondering if any of you guys have talked to any of the fwp and if any of them are for bear hunting with hounds?

I talked to some FWP employees about this and most seemed to be for it, but it was hard to find a FWP biologist that would stick his neck out to support this with any drive. If ...

I'm not very educated in political avenues but even a fool like me knows that an unorganized approach to changing or passing a bill wouldn't lead to a desirable result.

Because politics is always organized and the process was never intended to be cluttered right?! :roll: I think you should have ...

In case anyone wants some articles or facts to send letters to FWP Commissioners or legislators, below are links to a number of articles addressing black bear problems.


http://www.missoulabears.org/resources/news.html

http://missoulian.com/news/local/wildlife-officials-respond-to-flurry-of-calls ...

In addition to Scott's link, here's another thread discussing this topic:

http://biggamehoundsmen.com/forum/montana-bear-hunting-with-hounds-t21695.html

I also want to add something to what's been said about HB 144. It may not be perfect, but it is more than adequate. The bill may not use ...