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first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:57 pm
by wackysam16
This is my first bear we took it in Lowell Vermont with our plott hounds. We started it in a cornfield and ended up treeing within 20 or so mins. But it took us almost 2 hours to reach the tree up on the mountain. We got to the tree and saw the bear and the dogs and as soon as the bear saw us it started climbing down the tree and jumped tree with all 3 plott dogs on it's ass. We sat there looked at all the branches that were chewed of at the bottom of the tree. Looks like the dogs really wanted some teeth in that bear. And all the time we were sittin there it was snowing and hailing and raining it sucked. After the bear jumped tree we heard the dogs not even 10 mins after treeing again. We walked some more and got to the second tree and there was the bear again. We at least got to get under the tree for a little while when it started coming down again. There were two shooters under the tree at the time and they were all yelling at us to shoot it so i aimed right at the bear as it was climbing down and shot. The other person that was there to shoot aimed at it went to shoot it but had forgotten the safety on :lol: so i ended up tagging it. Then we had about another 2 hour hike out and ended up on the valley rd all the way in the opposite direction. It weighed in at 134 dressed but in all not bad for a first bear.

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Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:25 pm
by Jason Waterhouse
Congrats on bear was it a female or male? Where did ya get your plotts?

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:33 pm
by SECOND NATURE
CONGRATS NICE JOB BEST OF LUCK LARRY

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:38 pm
by wackysam16
Jason Waterhouse wrote:Congrats on bear was it a female or male? Where did ya get your plotts?

thanks it was a female unfortunatly. I hunt with Lincoln Chambers and them seen you around before. 2 of them is pocohontas plotts and the 3rd one is their daughter who is turning out to be a great bear dog.

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:41 pm
by wackysam16
thanks Larry :D

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:44 pm
by Jason Waterhouse
Ok i thought you looked familair.

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:45 pm
by wackysam16
yea

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:29 pm
by spruce mountain
Nice job,The first one is always the best, you'll never forget it.

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:53 am
by wackysam16
Yea i definetly won't forget this one :D

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:04 am
by beardog-treed
nice job....


been running up there in Vermont all season, and all the bears I find have their Nike's on. I can not catch a bear to save myself. There like energizer bunnies.

Have seen a few crossing the roads but just can get them up. I think its from all the apples there eating. There all on sugar rushes. The corn down were I am is all cut and there is no Beach nuts to be found.

once again great job!

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:24 am
by wackysam16
Thanks

Oh yea the bears up here seem to have alot of energy and can't catch up to them most of the time and they jump tree and run all day long most of the time but been lucky a couple of times and got to the trees before they split

Re: first bear 2009

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:09 pm
by pat_kemp
nice bear congrats..