Maine training season

[spruce mountain]

After a ruff start in July things are starting to turn around.We treed a 130# sow on saturday,Fist bear of the season.It was a good run,they cold trailed about a quarter mile and jumped it and the race was on.They lined it out for a couple miles and then were walking it for about a half hour and then treed it.




These are the hounds that were there.


Gunner

Rooster ,direct son of Michigan Swamp rooster

Wille, son of Rooster

Duke,Almost 2 year old out of Gunner,Grandson of Rooster.

Clyde,A lightfoot hound

[Brian Chorney]

Scott was wondering if Bonnie is starting to make some races?
Brian

[spruce mountain]

Brian
She went on the first one we put her on in July and did a good job and then came in heat.She is out now so we should be able to start running her again this week.I'll keep you posted.

[Brian Chorney]

Right on ! Thanks Scott, run the pads off them.
Brian

[spruce mountain]

Brain
I'll run them hard but I,m going to try to leave the pad,s on them this year.I ran Gunner's pads off last year and the percentage of bears I caught went way down.LOL

[robbyson99]

Nice job. Seems to be a few bears around for sure. Good luck with rest of training season. Maybe randy and I will run into ya sometime this fall

[meguide01]

nice job scott well i also had a good run this saturday myself with a loss after 10 hours, is wille a brother to tessa? my ex still has her she is five and well a beautiful dog and has no training but has treed many house cats and well is about 80 pounds but healthy wish i could get her to run sometime. maybe we can meet up sometime this year as i am just over the mountain from you with some sites this year only a township away. anyway nice job keep up the good work. and keep showing us the rewards as it keeps the drive going. Randy

[spruce mountain]

Thanks Guys,I'm sure we will run into each other some time this year.Randy Wille is out of a different litter,He,s older than your dog.The mother to that Duke pup is a sister to your pup.

[spruce mountain]

We treed a nice bear this mourning.6.5 mile race,Toward the end they walked him awhile and then they treed him.

These are the dogs that treed him.

Wille and Duke

Gunner and Ally

Big Black,Duke Ally and Big Black are all litter mate's out of Gunner

[Borderpond]

Too many limbs around that bear Spruce Mtn. I can just picture a sport throwing a bullet into that limb and just nicking the bear !! LOL Then the fun starts ,right ?

Nice job treeing another.Dogs must be starting to get hard ? How they hitting the baits ?

[SECOND NATURE]

SCOTT HERE ARE THE PICS AND VIDEO OF THE SECOND TREE LARRY

LIGHTFOOT BLITZ AND LIGHTFOOT CLYDE

[spruce mountain]

Thank's Larry.Borderpond,It doesn't realy matter they can wound them sitting right in the open to,or miss them completly.LOL.Yea the bait's are getting hit good,seems to be plenty of bears out thier.

[spruce mountain]

Treed another one today,Gunner treed it by him self.It was a real nice race,Just under 6 miles.He had to swim across a pond and he did something I have never seen him do before,Toward the end he went silent,I could see him going thru the woods along this road and I was almost going to call to him but I could tell he still had the track.He went on about three or four hundred yards and caught the bear and treed it.

This was the bear at the bait.

Gunner

Here he is in the tree,I got some video but I couldn't get it to load.If my daughter can figure it out I will post it latter.

[Borderpond]

Nice going Spruce Mtn. That Gunner dog is a dog that wants to catch a bear.I have had a couple that would go silent like that. Now, I am not saying I prefered that, but those dogs sure caught alot of bears. The only 2 dogs I had that treed bears solo on a regular basis, both did that. It did make it hard to hunt other dogs with them.Hard to pack dogs into a silent trailer. Many times I have watched the bear cross the road and listened to the pack quite a ways back.Then a few seconds after the bear had crossed and I was in the middle of saying "they will never catch that bear " , Spot or Spike would come flying across the road not making a peep. A couple hundred yards in they would open and it was game over, bear caught or treed.A few minutes later, the other dogs would catch up.Always wondered if they went silent to catch the bear or try to get it away from the other dogs ???

Now Spruce Mtn., heres something to think about.How many times do you think Gunner has done that and you just never knew ? Good question huh ? I know where you hunt in Maine.I doubt there are very many times you get to watch the dogs trailing because its so thick.We used to debate that all the time with my dogs. I remember thinking that if I didnt have a certain dog out there maybe I wouldnt tree a bear.About then the others would tree a bear without the superstar who had decided that moose or coyote was the game for that day !!!

[spruce mountain]

Borderpond
He has always run ahead of the other dogs alot.He dosen't mess around on a track if he can run it he goes out Quick and if the other dog's mess around with it at all they can't catch him.He has alway's given plenty of mouth to turn dogs into this was the fist time I have ever heard him go silent,But like you say in this terain its very rare that I get in on the end of a race.I know that alot of the time he has been catching or treeing the bear ahead of the other dogs and then the cavalry would show up.Thats why I bread him hoping to get some more dogs that could run with him.I kept 5 pups and some are showing alot of promise.These new garmins show a wealth of information when it comes to things like this,they take alot of the quess work out of wondering who is doing what.Your also dead on about the supper star deciding to burn some garbage.The last four times I turned him loose we treed 3 bears and he burned a moose.LOL.