EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Took my dogs to Wisconsin for the second year in a row to run bear.  Had a blast!  Treed one bear, bayed bears on the ground, and caught one on the ground that resulted in a bunch of really cut up dogs.  Half my kennel is on the disabled list for a good while. 

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Making me jealous. I'm gonna have to start making a trip back to MI every year to see some bear.

I've hunted bear in Canada and WI.  Next year I would like to make trips to FL/GA and VA.

Hog dogs make better bear dogs than bear dogs making hog dogs

Sounds like an awesome hunt... I'd love to go on a bear and lion hunt some day.

I believe my two oldest dogs prefer bear over hogs.

I would also like to go on a cat hunt.

Sure sounds like fun! What kind of dogs are you running?

All Plotts

I been wanting to do that for the last year or to

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It is nice to get a good size bear that trees after a good 5-10 mile run.  "Lay-up" bears (bears that tree after a couple hundred yards) are not worth a dang.  A big nasty boar bear that wants to stand and fight is a different story!  If it is not kill season or you are in a state where you cant kill bears, it can get real hairy real quick.   

Just curious what hog dog would be best to track and tree a bear/cougar?  Catch or bay?

Seems the catch would attempt to catch and you could loose dogs fast to fight the dog couldn't handle.   

I cant speak for cougar but for bear, you'll need the grittiest dogs you have to make a real boar bear tree.  If not, he may walk on you all day long and you'll never get him treed or bayed solid.  In the bear world, I think most hard hunters say, "the good dogs don't live long".  The good gritty dogs that will put a bear in the tree for you are the same ones that fight a mean bear on the ground.  Bears do a lot of internal damage with hard swipes and punches.  Lots of broken bones, joints, and backs on dogs.

I took eight dogs up; four came back cut up good.  But, like hog hunting, they healed up and we going back at the hogs this weekend.  I would say my dogs have good grit; not too much, but they will fight a bear and they will grab ahold of a hog no matter what size.  I have one that is a straight running catch dog.  Very open on trail but when face to face with a hog, he catches.  Everything else will catch with him or with other dogs.

I run plotts on bear and hog. I've never ran or tried a cougar, (well the four legged kind anyways).  I'd say typically your average cur dog probably won't have the nose for lion, I'm sure some out there would. But if you're wanting a dog for a three I'd do my homework on a good line of hounds that have the nose and trailing ability for lion, and the grit and mental toughness for bear. I've seen lion bred hounds and hounds that would eat hog but look like a sissy on a bear.