Post by ike on Sept 9, 2009 17:42:26 GMT -5
Ran down a sow and boar but turned them both loose. We've spent more days rigging and cutting for tracks than anything. As usual, the large tracks are old when the hounds rig them and the tracks won't hardly start or move while the younger bears are fresh and not turned on. ****, I sure wish we had the bear population in these parts that are found elsewhere. Driven over 1600 miles....
I don't mean to put a negative spin on bear hunting, cause we did rig around a dozen times one day and found seven of those bear tracks on or near the road; we also had on bitch lion track that only Ike and Choco bumped on. But when a guy hears stories about rigging a bear and choosing not to run it and only having to drive two miles before striking another, well, wouldn't that be nice?
We did turn out on a blind rig yesterday afternoon after rigging all day and only hitting one old boar track and a couple fresh sows. That rig did wind up being a runner that took my hounds into the slide rocks. The rig was a cold trail that warmed up in a few hundred yards and roared out over the top and back down into cliffs over a hundred feet high (the canyon was over a thousand feet deep). The hounds sounded bayed but, if they were, that boar squirted out through the ledges and five of those hounds came out cold trailing an hour or so later. Two dogs were ledged up and one trailed out this morning, the other is still up there........
We had a blind rig and bear race on Sunday, and six of seven hounds made it out. My little Rowen dog got hung up and I spent six climbs into her just trying to find her.
After half a dozen trips back on the mountain, my son and I finally found a way into my little Rowen dog. She had been ledged up since the bear run on Sunday, and is now safely home after a two day stay. It took ropes and some climbing in sharp country but she's on the chain again............
ike
I don't mean to put a negative spin on bear hunting, cause we did rig around a dozen times one day and found seven of those bear tracks on or near the road; we also had on bitch lion track that only Ike and Choco bumped on. But when a guy hears stories about rigging a bear and choosing not to run it and only having to drive two miles before striking another, well, wouldn't that be nice?
We did turn out on a blind rig yesterday afternoon after rigging all day and only hitting one old boar track and a couple fresh sows. That rig did wind up being a runner that took my hounds into the slide rocks. The rig was a cold trail that warmed up in a few hundred yards and roared out over the top and back down into cliffs over a hundred feet high (the canyon was over a thousand feet deep). The hounds sounded bayed but, if they were, that boar squirted out through the ledges and five of those hounds came out cold trailing an hour or so later. Two dogs were ledged up and one trailed out this morning, the other is still up there........
We had a blind rig and bear race on Sunday, and six of seven hounds made it out. My little Rowen dog got hung up and I spent six climbs into her just trying to find her.
After half a dozen trips back on the mountain, my son and I finally found a way into my little Rowen dog. She had been ledged up since the bear run on Sunday, and is now safely home after a two day stay. It took ropes and some climbing in sharp country but she's on the chain again............
ike