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you guys that get to travel around ,whats state is the hardest to tree a bear in.why? i live in Maine and find some of those bear around the low lands dont want to tree.thunder struck

Hawaii

Oregon since it is against the law!!!!!!!!!!

nope it's kansas the trees are soo far apart!! bear hunting has it's up and downs in every area like all hunting. the real bad areas with no roads can play havoc. i take my hat off to the boys who run those big northern tracs and before tracking collars that was a art form.

Idaho
Most of the easy bears have been killed. Most of the other bears are educated from getting ran to death. There's still honey holes here and there but the good roaded up areas have some tough baying runnin bears. It will show ya what you got or don't got in the box pretty fast.

Idaho. I haven't traveled other states much, but this state seems to keep the bears grounded.

i would guess idaho a lot of up hill the toughest sob i know who out peddles me no problem up hill sayed idaho was one big mountain steepest toughest he seen

I live in Idaho and there are some places that are tough like many and places with easy bears but I would not put Idaho as one of the toughest I would say coastal areas .

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Forks washington

I'd have to agree with smiley on this, when ya get in brush where ya can't see the dogs or bear at 5-10 feet it's awful rough on dogs and man. Mike

hardest state i will have to say drunk! i've hunted in so many states happy, sad, excited and more but drunk i seem to have a heck of a time catchin bears but boy can i dance in this state!lol

Its a very broad question really, and each state, and area within the state has its challenges. As an example, the area I hunt by home is a s$$$it hole period, water, mud, thick, and the bear know dogs. About five feet is all they can see. Then you got different times of year, and dispositon of the bear. July is pretty nice training, the berries come out the end, which for some reason have an effect, they get rank. Figure a fight each time you turn loose, then sept. they start to become normal, and by oct, they are thinking of winter, and slowing down, you can put a 500lb in the tree then once in a while. The east coast is no picnic either, you find out in these area's if you got the grit, to tree bear. My dogs wouldnt know what to do seeing 50 feet. But i"m sure the rocks, and other things outwest present many challenges also, were not familiar with. Good hunting.

We have a huge Bear Club here and their may be 20 Packs of hounds in a club..

Harvest # of Rockingham (Where we live) and Page the adj. County
38% were taken with Hounds with a much lower no. for Bear taken Over the Hounds most are shot on the ground out in front of the Hounds by fokes on stand.

Nearly all hound bear kills are on National Forest Lands and our National Forest have very Few Roads !! Thats 306 Bear in 2 rather small counties .

County 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
Rockingham 162 | 165 | 200 | 176
Page 90 | 82 | 123 | 130

Our Bear are run very Hard before kill season ever comes in, Sow's with cubs are treed and retreed over and over again !! Thus they create (Train) Pure Running Bear that won't tree..

Virginia Black Bear Harvest
Take a look at the Population Graph on kills !! http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/b ... ummary.asp

would have to disagree with Roc. and Page. would say that most bears in the western part of the county are treed. alot more of the bear on the mass would tree if they had a chance. i would say that it is more a result of the type of hunting and number of people but they will tree and do all training season long for those who dont hunt in that situation. i would say in kill season they do take to a hole more often on the mass just a result of the rocky country. to each their own its just the way they like to hunt.
the hardest place i hunt to tree bear is eastern north carolina in kill season simply because just about everytrack you try to put on is around 400lbs. the size alone makes it alot less likly to tree. most all i have been involved in were taken at 5 yards or less. now if you get on some small bear durning the summer they usually tree.