When you turn the lead dogs on a fresh track you'll know it right away. Our guide will send the pack after the bear and you and the guide will follow after them until they tree or stop the bear. Some bears will try to excape the dogs by climbing a tree but the older, heavier bears will fight on the ground. If the dogs are fighting the bear on the ground the guide will alert you to the best time for a shot in order not to hit one of the dogs. All of our guides also carry a rifle if needed for backup.
Dogs have a distinctive sound when they trailing a bear and another when they've treed it.
If the dogs get out of sight and sound they can be located using the Quick Track system. We do not hunt over bait as it is illegal to do so in either North Carolina or Tennessee. When you take game using free range, fair chase you will have accomplished something that you won't forget. The excitement of the chase and the victory of harvesting the animal that you have chosen to take. We make no guarantees for a kill nor do we have any extra fees for a harvest.