Bear opens Sept. 15th, my buddy has a tag and I have the hounds. I've got my spots that I've seen tons of sign and I'm really excited. Anybody else running bears this year? After bear is tagged its a trip to Jarbidge for cow elk and mulie buck for my buddy then its all winter after lions and bobcats. Just wondering how many of you enjoy seeing the dogs work and hearing the bawl of hounds on a track.
NV bear opens next week!
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Yep. I have a buddy with a bear tag too. Another good friend with house will be running the bruins. I hope I can go it will be my first bear hunt with dogs. Can't wait for the experience.
Its pretty intense, people don't realize how hard it is. You HAVE to go where the bear and dogs go no matter what. Lions is the real reason I got into hounds, they are tricky and smart. Bears are tough and can run marathons but its seems like you can put more up than you can lions. Its a lifestyle and I love every minute of it, then again hunting period is a lifestyle and I love it.
Drhorsepower
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My dad used to have a guide service running bear. Man that was the good days. Nothing is like a good chase. It is alot of hard work to be successful but some of the most rewarding hunting. I wanted to get back into it one day but the latest California legislature changed my mind.
You boys have fun and cherish the opportunity.
You boys have fun and cherish the opportunity.
Its here! Meeting up early tomorrow with some buddies and heading out. Doing it a little different, gonna hike about 4 miles into some nasty, thick country with no roads. Hoping to find that 600# boar hiding in there, hoping. Have fun and good luck to everybody with bear tags.
NVBird'n'Big
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Big goose egg today, cold trailed a couple tracks but pulled dogs off cause of the nasty terrain we where heading into. Found tons of sign but all a couple days old. GPS said 7.8 miles from our drop off to the bottom, thick rosehips and quakies broken up by rock and sage with no trail from top to bottom. Lots of bear, deer, cat and fox sign and no human sign. We will be heading back soon, gonna check some other spots in between. I will post all the action as soon as it happens, this cool down next week should help out some, pretty damn hot and dry.
Heading out tomorrow. Buddy with the tag has some prior engagements for this weekend so Thursday is it until next week. Feeling good about tomorrow, 2 houndsmen and 1 hunter. Have about 6 good dogs and a few younger dogs between the 2 of us. Hoping getting out during the week helps out but we will see.
Awesome Jason! Keep us posted please. There are some real monster bear in the area. You'll get'm
Holy Crap! Today is one of the hardest hikes I have done. Only 5 miles but straight up, nasty boulder, rock slide and DG death chutes. Did a bunch of roading and rigging, only small bear so we decided to go hike into the same drainage as Sunday. Tons of sign, we only got about a mile in and 3 dogs opened up hard and started trailing. The 5 other dogs soon pulled in and the race was on, in a matter of 10 minutes they scaled one of the nastiest mountain/cliff death traps I've had the pleasure of chasing dogs up. 2900' and 2.5 hrs later we were at the top and hearing dogs bawling hard and treed. Thing was we are bear hunting and I found lion tracks (I always have a lion tag), they had the lion treed for at least 2hrs before we finally got within 150 yards of the histeria. We sat listening and looking for the cat when suddenly, silence. Then all of a sudden dogs are running everywhere trying to line some thing out, the lion jumped tree and went directly over the next ridge into another canyon. We agreed that we where done and the dogs appeared to be as well. Called the hounds off and proceeded to rock climb and lower, lift and pull hounds out to flatter ground. Sometimes I wonder if I'm mentally stable doing this type of hunting but when I hear my dogs I know, iI'm definitely not!
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Wow ya that sounded miserable for sure! To bad you weren't able to get the cat for your hell of a hike
Wish I did get pics, we were to far out and never did see the cat in the tree. Tracks is all we found, tagging the cat would have been nice for sure. Every time those dogs light up and I turn loose I kinda cringe and wound how this will go. Free casting the dogs in dry ground for me is the most effective way to get a hunt going but you never know for sure what they'll do or where they'll go.
I went back today, my buddy lost a dog yesterday so went back to get her today. I did another 8 miles dropping in from the top. Spent most of my time today trying to find her in a very bad cliff/chute area that I'm tracking her too. Her signal is somewhere in the middle of this cliff. I was above, below and east and west and I know shes on a shelf somewhere in that face. I hate this part of hound hunting, dogs get hurt and dogs die. My friend is the real deal, he can't hiike much anymore being 70 but he's been their for 2 days keeping a signal on her and calling her. I did everything I could today besides kill myself although it was close. Got a few pics of the country ad my young dogs.