Best Bear Hunting Dog Breeds. Bear hunting hounds are often the same hounds you’ll find chasing coon, fox, and bobcat. Hounds such as the Plott, Walker, redtick, bluetick, black and tan, and redbone ...

These dogs became the basis of the modern Plott hound, and they are widely used by bear and boar hunters today. Pursuing bears with hounds is a very traditional way of hunting in the Appalachian ...

PHOTOS: Hound dogs. Animal rights groups say using dogs fitted with electronic tracking devices to hunt bears and bobcats is cruel and unfair and should be outlawed in California.

The number of bears killed in California was cut in half after the ban on using hounds in bear hunting went into effect. Watch ABC7 newscasts on demand. Full Story. ABC7 Bay Area 24/7 live stream.

Bruce E. Mellon’s fascination with hunting bears with dogs goes back to the late 1970s, when he read an article about the practice in a hunting magazine. Since it was not allowed in New York at ...

Florida resident Brad McNaughton goes bear hunting every year in Georgia. But he hasn't killed a bear in years. That's because McNaughton thrills to the chasing of bear with his English hound dogs.

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS needed a bear hunt chapter for her book, The Yearling. She called me from her place at Cross Creek, about 50 or 60 miles north of my home at Leesburg, Florida, and asked ...

In November 1998, Coy Parton, Dolly Parton’s cousin, trucked his bear dogs from the east Tennessee mountains to North Carolina’s coastal plain, and he set those Plott hounds loose in woods ...

Bear print on a training run for bear hounds in northern Wisconsin. Credit: Dale Bowman As we waited for the dogs to jump the bear, their baying spooked another bear.

Bear hound hunters in Vermont are allowed to kill only one bear a year. Spear says he often kills a bear only every few years. In fact, this summer he has cornered 36 bears with his hounds and has ...