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Title: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: tnhillbilly on August 15, 2011, 09:28:21 pm (http://tapatalk.com/mu/aefe70a0-d0d1-160d.jpg)
(http://tapatalk.com/mu/aefe70a0-d12f-63b6.jpg) (http://tapatalk.com/mu/aefe70a0-d199-cb06.jpg) http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid655.photobucket.com/albums/uu277/tnhillbilly/VID_20110815_090558.mp4 Had a good morning, found a good track early. Turned dogs loose, and they put this one up pretty quick. The last pic was at the base of the tree where the bear was. To show how thick it is, those feller were only about 10ft away from me. We pulled the dogs back a little, and down it came, and the race was on again, ah music to my ears. That bear wasn't about to tree again, it mad a big loop and crossed the trail in front of me and went over the next ridge and made a stand in the THICK, AND I MEAN THICK, mtn laurel. I was lucky enough to stay right on top of the action all morning, which dont happen very often. I eased in to the bay, and it winded me and got up and started walking. It would walk a while, and fight a while. This is the kind of bear you dont want your dogs on during training season. They will back up in the laurel, and single out a dog, and run it down, and dogs cant get out of the way. Only had 2 get hurt, nothing too bad though. Once we figured out it wasn't going to tree, and seen the first dog caught we decided to catch the dogs off, as quickly as possible. Now this is the fun part, crawling on our hands and knees within feet of a mad bear, thats charging dogs, and blowin, and breaking laurel like tooth picks. One by one we followed the bear and finally got all the dogs caught. The new dog done a real good job. I got to see the bear several times and had a blast. Going to try again in the morning. Sent from my C771 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season Post by: Noah on August 15, 2011, 09:35:56 pm Way cool brother... I'd like to have me a set of bear dogs ;D
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season Post by: Mike on August 15, 2011, 09:36:45 pm Good pics... looks like fun!!!
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season Post by: Cutter Bay Kennels on August 15, 2011, 09:44:37 pm Great pics Tom.
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: SCHitemHard on August 15, 2011, 10:12:07 pm sounded like a rush there tom, hope the injuries dont slow them down
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: tnhillbilly on August 15, 2011, 10:14:25 pm Thanks ya'll.
Noah, if I ever run across any good ones, we might work somethin out, im still lookin for some. LOL! I might just bring these potlickers down sometime. ;) Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: SwampHunter on August 15, 2011, 10:28:11 pm nice pics, that bear hunting sure sounds fun , how long are the seasons ? an how many yall get to tree a year ? an is there like a size that you can take or is it whatever you can tree ? i sure would like to listen to some hounds run a good race on a bear that be real cool
Title: Re: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: J.Prince on August 15, 2011, 10:35:44 pm Nice pictures. Sounds like a heck of a time.
Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: tnhillbilly on August 15, 2011, 10:47:43 pm We have a training season which we can just run our dogs but not carry any firearms, or take any bear.
Then we have kill a se ason. Weight limit is anything over 50 lb. But we try and take only 200+. your only allowed 1 per person per yr. Nc has much longer season than Tn. We can train from end of Aug. Then kill season opens in Oct. Thru Nov. Then opens back up in Dec and runs thru Jan. Tn has a two week training in Sept. And a 4 day kill season in Nov and a 14 day kill season in Dec. Load them plotts and come on Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: curdogs3006 on August 16, 2011, 02:42:38 am great pics Tom, I'm sure that's a lot of fun, and know how exited u get. good job man.
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: firemedic on August 16, 2011, 05:35:07 pm I knew you'd do it Tom,....this makes me wish for a tree dog again. I love my curs but there's nothing quite like hearing hounds treeing on a bear....brings back a lot of fond memories.....thanks bud.
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: chainrated on August 16, 2011, 05:59:04 pm Nice Pics Tom.. How many dogs do yall usually have on the ground? Will they catch a small bear?
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: Amokabs on August 16, 2011, 06:50:33 pm Buddy, u living LARGE! Couldn't be prouder for u and your pack
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: tnhillbilly on August 16, 2011, 09:25:43 pm Neal, I thought you'd like that, thanks
Matt, just depends on how many people are hunting, its not uncommon to see 20+ dogs at a tree. I think we had about 8 this day. Mike, thanks bud. You ever have any pups yet? Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: brandonb on August 17, 2011, 02:43:24 am Always wanted to try this. It looks like it would be a rush.
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: Swine-Stalker on August 17, 2011, 10:37:05 am Good deal Hillbilly. Glad to hear that your run of bad luck is turning for the good. Great hunt bud ;)
Title: Re: Opening morning Nc training season. "video added" Post by: tnhillbilly on August 17, 2011, 03:48:41 pm Thanks, yeah my spirits were gettin low for sure. But aint gonna get my hopes too high, cause every time I do something happens. This particular place I hunt usually holds some mean ones. Im glad we didn't have anymore dogs than we did on this one cause it could have got ugly. He definitely was not afraid.
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