best breed for bear

[onalimb]

I have a friend in WV. that is from one of the oldest Plott families in the country. He tells me there are some hair pulling, get it done English over there that he would feed any day.

[liontracker]

The same goes for some Smokey River blues in Michigan.

[LBell]

hounds are hounds, Plotts are bears dogs!

[bob baldwin jr]

I am very happy with my POKY- DOT ISCHCABILILS

[onalimb]

What the hell is that??? Sounds like a Japanese tractor.

[bob baldwin jr]

Sorry misspelling on my part should be POKY DOT ISCHABIBILS

[drygroundhound]

One that pulls lots of hair and don't get killed doing it!

[Borderpond]

All things considered, I think most houndsmen would agree that Walkers generally make the best bear dogs.

[Hounder-]

I'm a walker man myself and I've seen some pretty good walker bear dogs in my day but all I know is the "real" bear hunters around here, the ones that want to keep pressure on the 400+ bears that stay on the ground use plotts. The run up some hefty vet bills but they keep on the bear.....

Once I get a little more money to pay for the kamikaze dogs I'll have a few in my pack;)


Also, little surprised redbones aren't on the list, I've seen 2 great bear redbones in my time....(my time has been short, so two is a good number, haha)

In the end though my votes for the crazy plotts!

[lepcur]

Heck, I don't even see the breed I hunt Mike

[Nolte]

Hounder-

What side of the state are you from? I'd bet good money that you are a more east sider than west by your comments. For whatever reason the east side has a lot more guys running plotts than over this way on the west.

Here it's more of a hodge podge of colors with white looking dogs probably having the upper hand. Notice I said white looking, not walkers. But most guys hunt whatever color dogs are catching critters for them and then cross them up and keep the color they like the most.

[BBGH]

I have never hunted with a majestic, but I have seen awesome bear dogs in every other breed. I have also seen dogs that need to eat a bullet in every breed as well. I think the best breed is the one that you want to hunt. Because the more you hunt the better your dogs are going to be, the rest is just color.

[treedblackbear]

I like the Black & Tans but the best dog I ever had was a mixed up dog i got from Van Johnson. And I did say (dog) because Lord only know's what was in that thing. But he would put a bear on the limb.

[bearhntwi]

I like the Black & Tans but the best dog I ever had was a mixed up dog i got from Van Johnson. And I did say (dog) because Lord only know's what was in that thing. But he would put a bear on the limb.

If it came from Van it had some Kamphouse Plott in it.

[treedblackbear]

If it came from Van it had some Kamphouse Plott in it.

He was out of a cur of Ernie Crammer's and a dog named Copper. I think Wade Lemmon had the Copper dog. And I think that dog was red and white in color. Plott if any it wasn't much.