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Borderpond wrote:Was in Maine guiding a couple from down south. Had turned out 4 dogs off a bait. They had the bear jumped and were smokin him. I drove around and got out to hear 2 of the dogs baying?treeing right near the road. Walked in to find 2 of my dogs baying into a small hole under a huge boulder.I had 1 hunter with me when my partner showed up with the other one. he told me he could hear the other 2 dogs still running up the road quite aways. He figured my 2 dogs must have put a coon or porky into this hole and the other dogs were still running the bear. I got on my belly and looked into the hole as far as I could and couldnt see anything it was so dark. We then found a long pole like branch and started jamming it in the hole.Nothing happened. Dropped the pole and told my partner maybe you are right, the other dogs have the bear. Just as we were about to leave I looked back and saw the pole moving by itself. I grabbed the girl client and turned her just as the bear came flying out of the hole !!! She fired her muzzleloader at about 6 ft and when the smoke cleared, there was the bear ,dead as could be. I cant believe I had been laying on my stomache ,partway in the hole, jabbing that pole in there. If the bear had come out then, it would have been pretty wild.

I had a similar situation, where my dogs ran a bear out of the canyon and over a ridge that crossed the main road. When I drove to the top and got on the main road, there was a large group of hound hunters gathered there and camping out. They told me the bear and the dogs ran right through the camp and down into the canyon toward the river. I got out to listen for them but coulldn't hear them. Then, suddenly I could hear them. Then all of a sudden they stopped. Some time I could hear only one dog and then two. They were in the same spot and sounded as if they might be treed. This was the stranges tree sound I had ever heard. I decide to go to them, even though it was hard to know exacly where they were. I was down into the canyon quite ways when I finally came upon the dogs. There was a small hole in the rocks, the same as your situation. The hole was about as big around as a dog. The dogs were taking turns on going in and fight the bear. Some time all three dogs would be in there and then they would occasionally come out one at a time. I could hear the bear and the dogs scuffleing around inside. I crawled in and pulled the dogs out one at a time and tied them up. I got some brush and started a fire near the entrance and blew the smoke into the hole. This went on for about a half hour until I realized that it was not comming out. So, I gathered the dogs and left it in the hole.

A few years ago I was in the shower when my wife knocked on the door and told me she had seen a bear
I thought ya right when I got dressed and outside she had 3 kids and 4 dogs in a datsun b210
we went up the road and she told me it crossed the road and went through that gate
Before she got stopped the dogs were tearing the back seat apart to get out I finally got kids and dogs
untangled the dogs went through the gate o and up the hill thirty seconds later I heard them catch him
on the ground
I was moving fast trying to get to the dogs when they started coming toward me He had fought his way
out of the fight and was running I went under a ceder tree and came face to face with him
he went uphill and I went down hill The dogs got him caught at the top of the hill and up a tree