WVA BEAR HUNT

Haha that English gyp belonged to another fellow, he had a real good set of English dogs, there was another picture that we didn't get on here with 2 of his Blue colored English dogs and my 20 mth old Plott under a bear that we'd had caught on the ground and prior to that had ran bayed and walked for about 3 hours. When he finally bayed solid he was in the middle of a big chunk of ground Jerry and I went in to them but it was rough very steep, rocky old timber slash where they had selectively logged it and left the tree tops and it left running before we got there. During this time I had two dogs on it , Jerry had two dogs on it, and Norman had a dog on it, Travis "the fellow with the English pack" was on the road below and when it crossed he dumped the other 3 aforementioned dogs and was able to catch the worn out dogs as they crossed, it didn't walk or bay anymore and about a mile on up the mountain treed. I was expecting a pretty good bear but it was about an 80 lber. that looked to have some age on him, broad mature head but no body size, there are several small mature bear like that inthat area, sort of stunted. Ind that part of WV there aren't a lot of bear that go over 200 lbs. Since I don't kill them size doesn't bother me if it's black ruzzy and up a bush I'm happy. If I was gonna hunt to kill one I'd go where big bears are are normally found.