First Day WV bear Season

bowhunter7 · Post by **bowhunter7** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:48 pm

Chris,

You should have went and run that sucker. I'm sure you got a dog tied up over there that will trash on a bear. Have to be more fun than running a little old coon.

Jim

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:31 pm

Chris,

Would have been better than anything we found today. Ran all the roads and put a few miles on the boot leather, but came up empty. Gonna be an early morning tomorrow.

Just a few scenery pics today:

Bearhunter · Post by **Bearhunter** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:02 pm

Group Im hunting with took a 438lb one today(I had to work :evil:

) Hope to have pics tomorrow

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:44 pm

Good day today. Put on a bunch of miles this morning and struck out on tracks. Late in the morning we got a call from another group that had aready killed one and had a second. Everyone hoofs it out of the woods and we head over there. Then it starts getting good. A bear kicked out by there running dogs rolls off the hill right in front of us and takes off across a big field. DTFB!! They fight him down the creek and one of the guys from the other bunch takes him on the ground. Good Deal. Then....A couple pups get off running a little trash and we are looking up against a big steep face and see a big bear role out from under a log and start up over the face. We beat feet, cut bear tracks and turn loose, about 2 in the afternoon. After all the dogs are gone we see there's definitly multiple bear. Tree them up, Sow and two yearlings. Sow comes out and whorps one of my brother's dogs and goes on. 2 dogs missing from there. The little guys are still in the tree and we take a few pics and gather up the dogs. Cut another track leaving that tree and turn loose. They tree him and my nephew takes that bear. Still 2 dogs gone. I try to go into them and they move out of my hollow and hearing. Gets dark and my brother goes into them. THey are treed on...you guessed it...turkeys. Oh well...hard to beat a day of bear hunting like that. And I'm tired. time for bed

One of the little guys, he's hard to see, no wider than the tree.

A friend from Ohio is in hunting with us and first bear hunt sees all this. Boy he might be disappointed tommorrow

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:45 pm

Bearhunter wrote:Group Im hunting with took a 438lb one today(I had to work ) Hope to have pics tomorrow

That sounds like a nice one Sam. Nothing realy special here Average WV bear

chris · Post by **chris** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:20 pm

bowhunter7 wrote:Chris,

You should have went and run that sucker. I'm sure you got a dog tied up over there that will trash on a bear. Have to be more fun than running a little old coon.

Jim

i only have that one 8 year old dog and a broke bluetick she wont run one and 2 pups i really need to get out ive only been out once this season id like to fill my tag on that monster i went and put up a camera hopein to catch him

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:05 pm

Bearhunter · Post by **Bearhunter** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:59 pm

Dang you all are doing good! total here is 7 treed 6 taken

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:39 pm

It's been the best week i remember. Caught 10 counting the sow and yearlings. Well...killed the one on the run but he was caught and jumped a bunch. He wore me out. I was 50 ft away a few times and he would break out. One of our guys killed one for another group. The guy yelled at us on the radio asking for help; he was by himself. it was a nice bear. It's been a good one. I wish my gyp wasn't in heat. I don't think I'm gonna have to worry about that happening to me again.

Bearhunter · Post by **Bearhunter** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:36 am

weather sucks here today!!! rain and fog :evil:

Only have today and tomorrow to hunt this week and they are callin for this crap again tomorrow :evil:

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:31 pm

I'm back in Charleston, and the weather does suck. Even flooding up in the mountains. Gonna try it some later in the week. Good luck to you all.

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:07 pm

Caught another Little guy today and let him go. The dogs split, and I think we had Mommy treed too, but we took the lazy route and rode the Rhino in and they came off the tree to us. Oh well. THey Smoked them off the mountain and treed up fast and hard. Dogs are doing amazing, young and old.

2 yr old

9 yr old

10 or 11 yr old

chris · Post by **chris** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:53 am

Chuck that big bore i was telling you and jim about was takein fri afternoon it killed 3 and put 4 in the truck to the vet he was a big boy.glad i didnt turn my only bear dog out and coondogs on him he was dressed out and tiped the scales at 330 pounds so he was bigger then i said . i was hopeing i would have been lucky to take him but i wasnt he was taken by a hunter up the road from me he was 16 and it was his first bear they ran him 5 hours the way they talked.He kept bayin up and as they got there he hualed ass outta there untill they had enough dog power to Force him to tree after that he bailed one last time and bayed up again thats when the kid had a open shot and took it they had 15 hounds on that monster the boy is spose to send me pictures i will post them if he sends them to me .

kdrchuck · Post by **kdrchuck** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:41 am

Didn't sound like anything i wanted to dance with. If he took 3 or 4 out on our dogs we would be out of business. My brother got a few dogs beat up and torn up pretty bad on fri. Down, at least, untill the weekend, One dog probably won't hunt till spring.

WVhunter · Post by **WVhunter** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:36 am

Where in WV do you guys hunt? I hunt deer in Dolly Sods alot. Took my first bear with dogs last week with my muzzleloader. I also killed one with my bow in 2005.

Kevin