Post by ike on Sept 5, 2006 20:54:48 GMT -5
I had the chance to load dogs Monday morning and look for a bear. As luck would have it, I didn't get a good rig but did put the hounds down a couple of times to run old scent.
Against my better judgement, I loaded dogs again Monday afternoon to make a couple passes for a hot strike. The dogs did blowup on one bear down near a berry patch but I was on private ground a mile short of the forest, so I rigged on up the mountain and came up empty.
On the way back down the mountain however, the dogs struck a bear so hard they about turned my little truck over. I put Choco (5 year old) and Ryan (nine year old) down and they went out on a dead run, so I threw down Sam (5), followed by Kody and Griz who are both two years old. You never know what's gonna happen with only an hour and a half of daylight left, but I watch the lead hounds go out and try to decide whether they rigged a bear or a track. This must have been a bear.
They were treed in a couple miles and I drove close enough to make the tree and out before dark. I did run into an old friend, his wife and their son when I was parking to walk in. They asked to come along to see the bear and did. Life is funny, that guy was one of the houndsmen that ran down and took me to my first lion tree back in 1988. He got out of the hounds ten or more years ago, but it was nice to take his son and his wife to see their first bear--kind of a pay back you might say.
This guy did tell me they had watched the Red Fern Movie and say my hounds on film, then they got to see the real thing up close and personal.
Keep'em treed!
ike
Against my better judgement, I loaded dogs again Monday afternoon to make a couple passes for a hot strike. The dogs did blowup on one bear down near a berry patch but I was on private ground a mile short of the forest, so I rigged on up the mountain and came up empty.
On the way back down the mountain however, the dogs struck a bear so hard they about turned my little truck over. I put Choco (5 year old) and Ryan (nine year old) down and they went out on a dead run, so I threw down Sam (5), followed by Kody and Griz who are both two years old. You never know what's gonna happen with only an hour and a half of daylight left, but I watch the lead hounds go out and try to decide whether they rigged a bear or a track. This must have been a bear.
They were treed in a couple miles and I drove close enough to make the tree and out before dark. I did run into an old friend, his wife and their son when I was parking to walk in. They asked to come along to see the bear and did. Life is funny, that guy was one of the houndsmen that ran down and took me to my first lion tree back in 1988. He got out of the hounds ten or more years ago, but it was nice to take his son and his wife to see their first bear--kind of a pay back you might say.
This guy did tell me they had watched the Red Fern Movie and say my hounds on film, then they got to see the real thing up close and personal.
Keep'em treed!
ike