When he said dead hounds, a houndsman perceives that being shoot by other hunters , maybe I wrong. That usually the notion. I would hope not, very few hounds are ever killed pursuing big game. Grizzlies would bay up, trust me it is not fun I have been there up cat hunting a caught a grizzly.
I could be just miss understanding as we I usually am not right. I think we're on the same page as far as no one wants that. Baying a griz up would be intense. Betcha weren't planning on that one....
Well that's interesting so what's your whole take on this? I'm sure you have seen most of the reactions?
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How many bird dogs, or any dogs for that matter, get gored on branches and barbed wire every year?
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words.
HB 468 is a well written bill, for me it’s about opportunity for my 16-year-old son and the younger generation of hunters in houndsmen to enjoy bear hunting with Hounds. For me it’s about the Chase in training the dogs, 99% of the time the animal that is treed is also freed.
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This is the part I don't understand. Happens here where I am with lions a lot. mtmuley
Get up 0dark30, go to my hound yard, pick out team 6-8 hound (two lead dogs), put all the tracking collars on them, tell the hounds to load up, hit the road, meet up with friends & family & make a plan. Then get to where want to I want to start the hunt, then put 2 strike dogs and two younger hounds on top of the dog box hook the dogs strike rack. Start driving up roads hoping for strike, finally a strike. Let two lead off the top of the dog box to work the track up. The track is either hot, medium or cold. You learn to know each of your hounds individually, they are all athletes. The dogs will work up the track get it moving and then whether it’s hot or cold you’ll will throw some more dogs into the race. Some of the Bears will go out fairly easy some of the Bears seem like they have on really good running shoes. Then you’re in for a long hike. Some bears walk walk, bay up or will be forced to tree. We as houndsmen are able, age & grade, sex and ok that sow has Cubs, most of time when a sow has Cubs there in the tree with her, you know whether you will harvest each bear we tree, 99% of the time pictures or videos take and the bear is treed and freed. We take great pride in this it is good management, it is about hounds, training (years of) the companionship of friends and family. I that makes sense.
two pups he traded one of our custom archery targets for.
Here is Idaho’s harvest rate from 2018-2020 harvest rate. Hound being the lowest. So everything in this bill is mirrored from Idaho, I worked with Idaho’s Predator management biologist on Preparing the bill. Here in the harvest chart Montana would be using the numbers off the Hounds and spot & stalk.
Yes, there is plenty, using the island approach staying away from the historic grizzly bear Corredor‘s will work.
Best post yet, this will increase bear hunters and the love of the sport. I believe with the harvest information from Idaho that Montana will end up vary even if this bill goes through. The two harvest rates from Idaho between 2018 and 2020 we’re very even between spot & stalk and using hounds, hounds being the lower of the two. Of those two I believe hounds would be the more selective of the two as far as hunters harvesting the Bears selectively, and that takes nothing away from the people that like to spot & stalk. I am a third-generation houndsmen my 16 -year-old son is a fourth, we take great pride in the term treed and freed. How long hunting for Black Bears is very selective. You know what the sex of the bear is and you know the grade of the bear in the age of the bear in whether a sow has Cubs or not. We practice this when we’re in Mount Lyon Hunting also and we take great pride in it.
It was back 1970’s, that was the last time I believe.
Great statement.
You have never hunted with hounds so before you make a statement like this maybe just may you should do some homework, because you are so far off base you are getting picked off, you just don’t know what you are talking about, fact.
