bear hunters
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From: upnorth
11-Sep-17
Talked to two groups of dog hunters yesterday . One said they haven,t had any luck and the other said the bears they have got on are turning and fighting . He said he's about to quit all ready has over 4000.00 in vet bills and that he heard there been a lot of other hunters with dog injuries .
From: Tweed
11-Sep-17
The bears are probably turning and fighting because too many guys are just treeing them for fun and not actually hunting them.
From: upnorth
11-Sep-17
We think it has a lot to do with the wolfs over the years. They started turning and fight the wolfs so bear dogs are less of a challenge . But that's just what they say can't prove it one way or the other .
From: Nocturnal
11-Sep-17
The logic makes a lot of sense upnorth..
From: Fivers
11-Sep-17
I always heard that the wolves are the reason bears tree, wolves are the only natural predator to bears. A pack of wolves will kill a bear every time, wolves jaws are strong enough to break the leg bones of a bear.
I personally think that once a bear learns that it can just turn and fight the dogs and it will win every time, it will continue to fight and run the dogs off. If you have hounds brave enough to try to take on a bear, you will have vet bills...if they stay back 10-15 yards to bay and circle the bear, you won't get very many vet bills.
From: upnorth
12-Sep-17
I see a lot of pictures of wolfs on bear baits . Most of the time its a single wolf .
From: Jeff in MN
12-Sep-17
I had pics of wolfs on several baits around Hayward last year. I quit one partly because the wolf pups were cleaning up the food. The adult easily opened up the bait. I also quit it because it was physically the hardest one I had to access and only had an average bear on it at that time.