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Hounds have been Known to take a Hunter into the Toughest places known to Man kind.
Hunters are Known to keep hunting the God Awful places, If game is there.

What is the toughest Place you have Ever Hunted and what made it So Tough.
Jess

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Southern Oregon
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I live in Oregon... We have it easy...

One place I hate hunting is up Elk Creek.. The dogs end up in two spots.. Treed at the bottom of the canyon off the 600 road....

Or they dropped off into Jackson Creek.. Which means you are going to be looking for dogs all day because the **** animals on that side don't stay treed long enough for you to get in there and the dogs pulled off..

The 600 road is just a pain in the behind.. Steep, no roads, cliffy...One of those where you hope you have flashlights and TP with you because it is going to be at least an 8 hour trip in and out..

ONCE and only once I have I fallen for "on the map the closer the lines are together the flatter it is" I know better now...

And because nobody hunts up in those areas... that is where we always head...

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the promised land in western washington.Five miles between roads,blackberries 25 feet deep,swamps everywhere,and an Indian Reservation right beside it that won't allow you to drive in to look for your dogs.The silly things we do when the bear are thick LOL

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Even the Name sounds Bad !!!!!
I promise you the place is Worse. I hunted there for 7 years.<lol> Imagine The Most Nasty Stinking Mud you have ever seen, Make it worse than you are thinking, make it about a foot deep. Add a bunch of blown over timber.
Now put about a foot of bad smelling water sitting on top of the Mud.< Rotten eggs smell better.> Add a Insane amount of buck brush and briars.
Place this around small coorn feilds and streams. Add a few Oak ridges and a Double Butt load of Coon a few Bobcat and you have "Mongo". The Toughest place I ever hunted.
This is what your hounds look like after running in Mongo

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-worse place around is the normal thing lol

found them hung up in rocks in maine once --- where it was flat and swamps and big rivers is usually the problem-almost no mountains where we were hunting

could see just like looking out over ocean from those rocks--

bear had gone up and over and dogs just hung up-

i thought was kinda cool to find that place but guy with me wasnt real impressed lol



bear always seem to take you into roughest country there is --no matter where you are hunting

-in this picture those blurry trees in background are across a state highway and a several hour walk away-- with a good rifle you could almost shoot across there -
rolling hills of VT lol

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This is where I like to run bear. There aren't a lot of guys that run there because no roads & ruff country. The big ones head for the cliffs it's unreal some of the cliffs they go through. It takes dog with lots of disire to get through the ruff stuff. It's not the tuffist place ever but It's sure nasty! Mark

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i will agree with travis , the promise land is a royal pain. once the dogs are turned loose , give it 5 minutes in a good spot to listen to your dogs . the rest of it is with the tracking box. another is matheny ridge on the back end. once they go over it and if they hook left , it is all national park , no roads , just hiking, but if you are lucky they will continue to swing left and cross the river and you can get back up with them on queets ridge. another will be the west twin if they go over the mountain on you , they are headed for highway 101 and if they cross they are heading into hunger mountain , that is just the right side, the left side you will be in merril and ring property and it is all gated roads , no motorized vehicles aloud unless you have permission and a key. generaly 10 out of 10 times you wont get the permission nor a key. but in western wash. today you are going to hunt , you need access for the majority of it. almost all the roads are gated off or dug up.but knowing the country up there if i were to hunt any gated land property it would be rayonier on the dickey , there are more roads than carter has pills out there , which makes cross country walking much nicer.... happy hunting

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its gota be mt pilchuck witch is one road that fallows the pilchuck river awesome cat huntin if you like to walk lol

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Several places are on the list here as RUFF,most have rocks (some as big as trucks)blowdowns briars and laural.

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There is a place that we got into a couple years back.
It was about 80 acres that " Sheer Winds " had taken all the trees down at about the 15 to 20 foot mark. You couldn't walk through it , you had to go on top of it. Jumping/climbing from log to log. The dogs had a bear bayed up under that stuff. The only thing we could do was reach down from above and pull dogs out. No way was we gonna kill that bear in there. No way to get him out. We sure weren't going to pull him up out of there and try and cross those tree tops ! LOL

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I would guess the eastern slopes of the rocky mountains. Cold temps. sugar snow, rough country, and the heart of timber wolf country. That's where the big lions live and so do I!
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i'm not a big game hunter, but
a buddy of mine. who i work with has about 40 acres 10 minutes from my house. this place in on the other side of the mountain from town and borders the indian reservation. its real rocky in some places and lots of caves. not to mention full of coyotes. but it has some of the biggest cottontails ive seen in arizona

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laural thickets oh there the most god awfule stuff to get threw here put it on a a mountain thats stright up and down thats so steep you have to slide down ok put your dogs tree in the middle of it on a oak tree and you have to slide through it down hill on your back worried about a bear or worse rattlers thats next would have to be the shear cliff we hunt round in bear season near the new river our dogs have put us in there oh i say 10-12 times this year

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laural thickets are bad where i hunt stuff so thick you gotta walk on top of it or crawl on your hands and knees

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naaaaa i been thinking bout this a little and the toughest place ive ever been is on the blacktop ---trying to halt traffic
so dogs can get across -
that is scary -

puts my stomach in knots

real close is

some woman in a bathrobe walking down the road --i can tell by the steam coming out her ears ,she is not coming down here just to visit

- its daylight sunday am and hounds just ran thru her yard -


bring on the rocks mountains mud--


thats the easy stuff --

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I would say hunting Range creek in Utah presented some real challenges. I have never hunted country with so many rims and cliffs. It is like the grand canyon. I was amazed at how hard it was to find the dogs again after they "topped out". Some of those bears are huge and must be run for two or three days before you can get a shooter to them. Bear dogs are tested to the limit there!!!

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pete

I hear ya buddy. Any time I am by a highway I get real nervous. I've had times where it's been like a live game of Frogger out there. Amazed that a dog didn't get hit. The owner of the company my buddy works for hit a bear that we were chasing. Luckily he was on the other road, so he avoided the situation.

I've been in some terrible places, but by far the worst is a tornado area. Sheer hell is the only way to describe it. We tried to get in on a good one in kill season and it was impossible. The only way to connect on one in there is blind luck. The dogs had it caught and it tooks us 2 hours to go 300 yards. We got close just in time for it to bump out and bay up again another 200 yards away. The worst is that the dogs and critter can just fly though that stuff and that the dogs can get ambushed real easy.

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I ll have to agree with the mt laurel, just some aweful tangled stuff. That and rhododendron swamps.

But two worst places hounds could take you:

divorce court, bankruptcy lol

And yup, roads suck too

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Here ya go...



No trees, no roads. Nasty brush. Mean bears.
This is where they send 'em when Yosemite don't want 'em.


A lot of places here in CA and the West Coast in general are pretty rough... But any hunter thats ever hunted it has stated, "if you can can catch a bear here, you can anywhere in the state."

I tell ya what though, Craig's taken a few outta here over the years, and they were all HUGE. One had a hump on him like no other, everyone there swore he had to have been part grizzly. Too bad some poor people can't afford to get get the big ones mounted


Oh yeah, lot's of these too...

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"if you can can catch a bear here, you can anywhere"

I think that should be a famous houndmans quote lol, Ive heard it alot. Mostly comes from folks bear hunting real thick stuff.

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quote:

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"if you can can catch a bear here, you can anywhere"

I think that should be a famous houndmans quote lol, Ive heard it alot. Mostly comes from folks bear hunting real thick stuff.

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Everywhere
But dodge a few of these while hunting, Along with a bunch of sankes. And thngs seem extra tough

Jess

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I used hunt a swamp, briar thickets on each side. Some one took a dozer and cleared it on one side a few years before I started hunting it. It was full of bulldozer piles you had to crawl into. Boggy mud in the swamp, beaver dam after beaver dam, some of the holes eight feet deep. I'd did have a boat but it was hell navigating with three hounds and two hunters trying get across in a 10 foot john boat. Several people never went back with me the second time.

We had some those big lizards in there also.............


Ive never hunted in the mountains but those big blocks and steep hills gotta be bad.

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Everywhere
But dodge a few of these while hunting, Along with a bunch of sankes. And thngs seem extra tough

Jess

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I was just starting to like you, And then you call me a Yankee !!!! ######

Really I have worked/ lived/ Hunted, Coast to Coast. I will always be proud to be a Son of the South. I am getting ready to head home to Florida after spending a almost two months in Ms.
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