WELL, WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE CRAP OUT OF THEM LITTLE ONES, HITTING THE LOW COUNTRY WHERE THE FEED IS, ACORN, ORCHARDS, RASBERRIES, AND CHOKE CHERRY...ON FRIDAY, MYSELF AND A BUDDY WITH HIS OWN DOGS HAD ANOTHER BEAR STARTED AND SHOWED TREED, WE GO WITHIN 200 YARDS AND WITH OUR LUCK IT JUMPED AND RAN. YESTERDAY ON SATURDAY, WE RAN ALL DAY, MY DOGS STARTED ONE AND TOOK IT FOR ABOUT 5 MILES STRAIT UP AND OVER A MOUTAIN WITH AND ELEVATION OF 11K, MY SAMPSON DOG COME TO FIND OUT GROUPED UP WITH ANOTHER PACK AND WENT FURTHER. HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT DIDNT COME OUT, SO AT 3 PM HERE I GO. WHAT GPS SHOWED AT 1.58 MILE WAS MORE LIKE A ROUGH 5 MILE NATURE WALK. TURNS OUT HE WAS BACK TRACKING AND GOT HUNG UP ON SOME NASTY CRAIGY ROCK SLIDE CRAP, WAS HUNG UP! GOT BACK TO MY TRUCK AT 7:30
SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION OUR GROUP HAS CAUGHT A FEW SMALL, SMALL BEARS, AND MY BUDDY CAUGHT A NICE ABOVE AVERAGE BOAR IN THE AFTERNOON
GOOD HUNTING TO ALL
....TWO PICKUPS WITH RIGS WERE ALREADY COMING DOWN, AS SOON AS THE SECOND PICKUP PASSED MY DOGS BEGAN TO WIMPER AND THEN A FULL BLOWN RIG! I FIGURED WHAT THE HECK, THIS IS WHAT WE CAME FOR...I TURNED OUT MY MAIN DOG AND HE WORKED IT UP THE HILL SILENTLY, THEN TURNED OUT MY 22 MONTH OLD PLOTT AND HE TRAILED AND BEGAN TO OPEN LIGHTLY...UP AND OVER THEY WENT, BUT NOT FULL BLOWN...THEY 2 TOOK IT ABOUT 1.5 MILES INTO THE WILDERNESS, AND THEN THE BEAR MADE A SWITCH BACK AND WAS HEADED BACK OUR DIRECTION! I SAID TO MY WIFE THIS IS PERFECT...THEY TREED IT 268 YARDS AWAY... I THEN TURNED IN MY OTHER 4 TO ASSIST, AND STRAIGHT DOWN THE HILL THEY WENT....THE ONLY BAD THING IS I DIDN'T GET ANY PICTURES OR VIDEO BECAUSE THE BEAR SAW ME AND GOT NERVOUS AND JUMPED AS I GOT WITHIN 10 YARDS OF THE TREE..MY DOGS RAN IT FOR ANOTHER 4 HOURS UNTIL THEY EVENTUALLY ALL FELL OUT...HAD A GREAT HUNT, LET'S SEE WHAT TOMORROW MORNING BRINGS 
