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Huntin has been ok for the group. Dogs are a little bit out of shape but a person cannot complain about the weather thats for sure. Have alot of sow and cubs around. Me personaly it has been slow but sunday was a good day with a long run that ended up treeing and some dogs split and ran another. Where abouts do you guys hunt in wi.

We ended up putting four bears up trees and ran just about a dozen the first weekend, Our dogs are a lil out of shape but did a good job. We ran a three hundred pounder last night for four hours it was a great puppy trainer. Got Three pups on it and they did a hell of a job. I'll try to get some pics this next weekend.
Mike

i didn't want to start a new thread so since we hunt the same state i figured we could all just post our pics and stories under the same one and keep it going. if not let me know and i will start a new one.

here is the first tree of my seasonon on Friday July 3rd. Homer, Clifford, Missy put this one up and i walked Disco in because she is in heat. let the bear down and re-ran it with Missy and Disco and they treed it again about 300 yards later.

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... -09074.flv

Here is another one of the first tree. nothing special but thought i would post it.

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... -09075.flv

Missy Treeing on her first bear.



Clifford on the first bear.




Here is the second tree on Saturday July 4th. Ran this one with a couple friends and treed it a while later. i will list the dogs in on the tree but not all are in the video. Ace, Rio, Clifford, Sarge, sajack, and Willy.

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... -09075.flv

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... -09082.flv

Rio on the second bear.

Congrats on the trees!Yea like I put in the original post,anybody that runs in Wi that wants to put pics and stories here feel free,thats why I started this thread.

Treed this one Saturday night after only a 45 minute chase, the dogs are really starting to click, we put 4 up this weekend.

A friend and i treed this one on saturday evening. had a good little race for about a mile and then treed about 50 yards off the road. started the track with ace and joker and then added missy, hank and breed.

here is a pic from the road.


here is a pic from under the tree.


here is a pic of ace at the tree. this was the only pic to turn out worth posting. i have video of all the dogs treeing that i will post later.

Friday we treed a small bear but paid a high price.The dogs had it caught in a culvert on an old logging trail for a while.When they crossed the next road,my Sport dog was not there.I went back to where the culvert was and found him lying dead 50 yards away.He would have been 3 in the fall and was turning into a good bear dog.He will be missed.

Saturday we had a good run and treed a small boar.Had about a five hour run before they put him up.

Today we treed a sow that was in the 150-175 range.A good run and a long walk to the tree.



Eli,Sport,and Bud.

Here is a pic from July 3rd



Dime,Ebby,and Eli

July 19th

friday night i baited my baits down by my house and then went back with ace missy and this jack dog. i pulled up to one of my baits and they all stated rigging from the truck but i could see that the bait wasn't hit. i collared them up and sent ace, then missy, then jack and they lined out. i knew they were rigging a bear he just hadn't hit the bait yet. i was in a fairly big chunk of woods so i followed them on the garmin. they headed east and then south. ace was out ahead and could hear him coming to the road. i looked up ahead and there was an old lady walking her dog right by me and i told her to watch the road that there should be a bear crossing soon. sure enough here comes the bear about 5 seconds ahead of ace. i ran up there and caught ace and then the other 2 came as well.

saturday morning i went north and pulled up to a bait. ace was rigging the whole way in to the bait. i was thinking to myself, (ok he rigged first so lets see what happens when we get up to the bait). sure enough, we pull right up to the bait and the truck explodes. bear came out the bait trail and headed north. i sent ace, then missy, then jack. i had my old dog with but no sense burning him out on a fresh track. they take it south and then kind of went to not saying much then a few bay barks then all tree barks. so me and my 3 year old son make our way in to the tree. we get about 20 yards away and can't see the bear up the tree so i was thinking slick tree. oh no, i walk up there and the bear was up about 6 feet trying to smack the dogs hanging from the tree. i had to bring my son back a little and told him to stay by the tree. then i went up a little closer and ran at the tree trying to get him to go up further, oh no he decided to come down and ace grabbed ahold of the bears a$$ and the fight was on. those 3 dogs worked him over pretty good and then he took off. they headed north and me and jaxon hurried back to the truck to get up to the north. we got there just in time to see the bear cross then i caught them up. he was headed for minnesota and we can't run there. i had my camera with and everything but it all happend so fast and i wanted him up in the tree further so no pics on this one.

here is some more video that i finally got loaded.

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... 073649.flv

Good going fellas, if I get my Toyota hunting rig pieced back together I'll be down in a couple weeks .

here's some more video.

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/ll13 ... 073607.flv

threw clifford and ace off a bait and added disco, trapper and missy once they lined out. jumped it and ran it for a while then finally treed.

here is clifford treeing.


clifford and disco treeing


ace treeing






disco treeing






here is a video from the tree as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMjfKspAarU

Good job Joe .

Joe them are some nice pics and videos looks like you are putting a hurt on the bears. How is Ace doing for a young dog compared to what you have seen in the past? I hope he will make you a dandy bear dog when he gets some age on him. later Andy