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The thread on the cat hunting page has been very interesting, I've never met any of those men but have heard several names of both men and dogs. So I thought it would be interesting to hear about some Bear Men.

I have one for the best bear man but instead of a man this will be a women, I have hunted hounds for 23 years and hunted with many but the best bearhunter i have ever hunted with would be my sister-in-law bobbie Stirek. This girl is one of the toughest there is. Bobbie is the kind of person u want to hunt with she is the first to have her gear on and gun ready it dont matter if the bear is treed our on the ground. U hear about all these great men that are hound doggers but the women are few and far between so my vote goes to one of the best and one of my hunting partners Bobbie Stirek.

She had two awesome teachers in her dad,Bob Gallaher,who also taught me alot,and Joe Hughes and I am glad to have her cause she does know her bear hunting and bear habits.She would also get my vote as the hardest best bear hunter I know.You guys that keep trying to get me to move to states where bear hunting is open must not want me to ever see her,its bad enough she gets to go on the rez.LOL
The other person who taught me and so many others in the northwest was Earl Cisco.Even when he first started going blind we could be driving along down in the Promised Land and he would ask me if I was gonna check that track I just drove by.Even when he finally was pretty much all the way blind he still knew each dog by rubbing their heads and still knew every voice.I was honored when he retired and gave me the last of his dogs.

I'll throw one in here Sam Faulk, never met the man but I have talked with him and hunted with some of his dogs, this is a man who's number of bears caught can speak for lt's self, and not only in his home state but all over the country!!!!!!

how bout gordon larson. now this ol guy is my mentor, hes been huntin bear up here in washington since the early 50's. alot of the old timers i talked to, have heard of him and know that he has great dogs.
he knows bear hunting and he knows dogs.

Ya brother you are a lucky man to be married to a legend's dauaghter i wish i had the privlege to hunt with Bob but Bobbie is caring on the tradition Like I said the best bear hunter in my oppionion is Bobbie Stirek

bearbaito6 wrote:The thread on the cat hunting page has been very interesting, I've never met any of those men but have heard several names of both men and dogs. So I thought it would be interesting to hear about some Bear Men.

I believe in my case I`d say the 2 hardest most serriouse was Harland Maxxwell and Bob Sage and the smartes 2 was Buckey Stone and Roger Stewart/ all nothern ca hunters/ but there was others who was really up there Carl Horner ,JD Pearson, Raymond Coatney, Mr. Beeman ,Don Poore,Rick Summers is right up there too/ all ca. Iknew thesr men in ca. and there was lots of others it was a large area and ya can`t know em all ! But I would love too set and listen at any polaberens they was haven and knowed each had a sure nuff beardog/ Roger Steward said it best/just would bragg ya know ; he said ol Jill really isent a bear dog and I know what one is from isen`t/but shes caused a lot of bear oo loose their lives though !?hahahaha

jack

ME! You know the name you know the dogs

Beardogger, Your so full of yourself you little puke!

bearbait how many bear chases and kills have you been on in the last 20 years? i'm sorry did you want me to say you? you are deffinatly the best bear bait. there does that make you feel better. ok,ok the best bear man i know or ever heard of is justin okeefe. that guy has some of the best hounds in western washington, and catches more bear than anyone i have ever heard of, or any game for that matter

has anyone ever heard of him? can anyone else back me up on that one?
if not check out his website at it is a true testamate to the life and stories of this BIG GAME HOUNDSMAN. its a great site check it out at http://www.okeefesbiggamehounds.com/. maybe he will give me a free guided hunt for this publicity.WOW!! how great that would be, a realife hunt with the great justin okeefe. it kinda gives me chills just to think about it.

I can't see anything on his website. Hmmmm?

Maybe I'm missin somethin here but all I see on that site is beagles and rabbit hunts

Well He Probablly end up color paint whole rabbits with brown spots on it

coonhound

Dave Malm is without a doubt the best houndsmen ever. Way better than beardogger or bearbait