dumping the box on bears in the road?

[George Streepy]

If I saw one today I would dump the box. Drive slightly passed the track and let them rip. My main dogs always seem to come out first and are very good at going the right way. I am mainly a bobcat hunter and although people say it is a bad idea, I have no problems when I do that. The dogs I hunt today are easily corrected if they did want to run the wrong way. However, I do remember a very long time ago when I first started hunting hounds completely screwing up a red hot lion track. Saw a lion cross the road and dumped the box. Dogs went everywhere. I was screaming, dogs could have cared less. Caught the lion but I am damn glad nobody else saw that mess. Back then I thought I had great dogs, but I didn't have a clue what a great dog really was.

Depends on what dogs your hunting and how well your dogs handle. Everyone has good suggestions. I say dump the box and see what happens. May give you an idea of what dogs may need to go away. Or how you should handle that with the dogs you run.

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[BlacktailStalker]

If you're starting some young dogs or hounds that you can't control, then always lead with your best dog or two and fed in the rest. In situations where a bear is on the road, the scent may well be heavy enough that those excited dogs will start it right and turn it around. I believe the reason for that is a bear may well be walking when you see it and then jump and run leaving less scent, therefore it's may be easy to confuse those hounds and thus turn them around.

I've worked long and hard with my pack (and believe it or not) can usually call them back on a pretty damn fresh track. In my opinion, if a guy can't he's gonna waste alot of time in the woods. Example: dogs turn a track around and you can't stop them, hounds run down a backtrail all day and a guy is chasing dogs that will never tree the bear. If a handler gets those hounds listening to him he should never have the problem of dogs scattering in every direction on a hot bear.

good luck,
ike

Tritronics always has my back if they do get going the wrong way, I have no second thoughts to toning (come) and then "six'n" them if they start the wrong way.
If they can't figure out they're getting shocked for not listening to the tone and not for chasing what they're chasing, there is no need to worry about wrecking them because they're obviously too dumb to wreck lol
How your hounds can hear you call them vocally on a hot track when they're lined out and bawling I have no idea. Even if they're mutes on a track as you describe, they're outta hearing faster than I can open my mouth.