The Hunting Public Learns What Hound Hunting for Bears is REALLY Like!

[@buydirtlife]

Absolutely loved this hunt and the way it was filmed-really captured the experience! The editing was spot-on, showing the real side of a dog hunt. It’s not always about size; it’s about the chase, the teamwork, and the moment. The way the dogs worked and the shot was shown was perfect. Great job to everyone involved-this one was a pleasure to watch!

[@duanerenchin9322]

I was with a group in Northern Wisconsin once hunting coyotes with dogs. I think they do that to help train the dogs for running bears. It was a lot of fun. Mostly watching the guys handle the dogs and how they utilized the electronics. Any legal animal for someone who has never done that before is a trophy. Good eating too. We did get one coyote in a full day of hunting. Don't knock it until you've tried it!

[@JBsTRAPPINGLIFE]

Great video boys !!! Awesome hunt keep the videos coming love the untamed Josh seems to be the most kind hearted person I have seen on any show taking ppl hunting introduces ppl to new styles of hunting and really pushes being outdoors in every way this video was perfect !

[@ronwilson3414]

It’s always an exciting hunt with Josh!!! Nothing better than chasing behind a pack of hounds!!! No matter what the game is!!! Great video guys!!!

[@samuelmarcum7006]

Love watching the bear videos and the hunting public guys. Glad you got to introduce them to the excitement of chasing bears with dogs.

[@pathfinder5804]

Don’t know any of the players in this video other then the THP guys. Yes it’s a smaller bear but hunter was happy to tag it so just like the hunter that doesn’t require a booner to shoot I’m good with it. Being from Maine and having been on many dog hunts for bears this was filmed and edited well showing the realities of a dog hunt. Don’t care about bear size as long as it’s not a sow with cubs!!! Wanna see dogs work, wanna hear dogs bark during the chase and showing the shot the way you did was perfect. Great job!!!

[@OscarPerez-mn3po]

Big time congrats Josh on being a great host putting them THP boys on a WV bear! Enjoyed the hunt, love them hounds. 💪🏻🇺🇸

[@TheUntamedHunt]

Thanks buddy!

[@Jim-h3d9e]

Absolutely loved this hunt! And, I was a Federal Game Warden for 33 years. I worked in seven different states, and retired five years ago in Alaska. From 1992 to 1997, I was a Park Ranger in the Smokies out of Cocke County, Tennessee…on the Tennessee/North Carolina border. Three things ruled that part of the country, NASCAR, college football and bear hunting. Dale Sr. use to tromp these same woods hunting bears over dogs. Those of you who don’t know who Sr. Is, well, ya got no NASCAR cred. Sr. was NASCAR! I had a blast working bear hunters. These guys were some of the toughest, most hard working dudes I’ve ever romped with in the woods. Was there a few violations, sure. Some trespass but the dogs never seemed great at reading ‘No Trespassing’ signs. In addition, deer hunters cheated way more frequently than the bear hunters and that’s a fact. And, these guys always treated me well, even though they didn’t love having me in their rear view mirror and listening on my scanners. You haters regarding the size of the bear…shut up. I’ve shot bears in geographic areas where they aren’t always big. Bear meat…and don’t tell that to the whitetails I kill, is my absolute favorite of all wild game. I’ve never bear hunted over dogs. That said, I’ve killed them over bait and stalking. The bottom line is, these dogs and hunters work their asses off doing this type of hunt. Anyway, you bear hunters keep doing your thing. It’s cool as hell!

[@TheUntamedHunt]

Thank you

[@tracks_5991]

2 of my favorite KZbin channels

[@georgelambert9780]

Awesome hunt Glad the hunting public guys got to experience hound hunting

[@pitbull8300]

Ain’t nothing like the sound of them hounds!!!

[@ZB_Outdoors_Videos]

Love both channels its always great watching yall hunt together. Good to see them getting to experience hound huntin as well!

[@cottrellshuntingandtrappin3016]

Great job on a great hunt. Met you all at the West Virginia hunting and fishing show today. Nice meeting you all and talking to you all.

[@skeetermalcolm1655]

Oh hell yeah, I have been waiting for a good bear hunt for a while now especially with the thp guys, loved it

[@ADVENTURESOFBZ]

Been waiting for years for THP to bear hunt!!! Excited to watch this one!!!

[@stevecolombe4446]

Cool that Zach and Keith got to go on a hound hunt. That bear was not a cub, but was definitely not older than a yearling. Maybe 50 pounds? The hunt doesn't have to be about killing something. Could have gone another day and tried to get something a bit bigger. Interesting how there weren't any pictures of it on the ground.

[@BigDeer148]

The Untamed you guys need to take me bear 🐻 hunting I have never been bear 🐻 hunting. Love watching you guys you’re the best.

[@Wildlifeencounters24-7]

Another great video. Your dogs eagerness is impressive. Thanks for sharing.

[@jimijohn7417]

The killers I tag along with in da yoop and northern Michigan have made two blind trips down there and lost a dog for a week the first trip and went after the big snow this year. Maybe next year they’ll put one down. Them mountains ain’t no joke by all accounts. I’d say walking them dogs through that is about as tough as it gets, hats off boys!

[@geoffshafer4055]

Great video thanks for sharing

[@TheUntamedHunt]

Thanks for watching!

[@joshwilder5145]

Awesome hunt, great times and memories

[@barryfultz6921]

What caliber was the gun?

[@TravisMonk-w6f]

What was that black cat¿

[@mikeney5113]

Awesome bear. Congrats Josh and crew awesome video

[@randallnottingham799]

Great hunt guys keep up the great work

[@taallen]

That one shouldn't be too hard to pack out .Might fill a couple of zip lock bags.

[@nathanalmond8280]

Thanks for sharing the video. Good video.

[@r3dn3ck1996]

I’ve been wanting you to take them hunting with some dogs for a long time!

[@naval_fong3066]

If you see them boys from the hunting public tell em they need to bring back The Red Viper asap.

[@farmall3693]

Cool hunt 😎

[@kokadjooutdoors620]

Some day want to get on a bear hunt over hounds. On my bucket list

[@Deerslayer369]

21:03 By God, you've set long enough by God. 😆 🤣

[@WyattBerg-ke8vp]

Do you and Kirk price ever hunt together anymore?

[@TheUntamedHunt]

No he focuses on his channel and we focus on ours.

[@WyattBerg-ke8vp]

@ understandable I wasn’t really talking about the filming side of it. I was meaning Just running dogs with friends without the camera there. that is the most important thing to me. And I don’t mean that in a rude way I just feel like some houndsman get caught up in the filming and lose the real meaning and love between a man and his hounds. I enjoy the videos you and Kirk both make.

[@TheUntamedHunt]

@@WyattBerg-ke8vp we agree with ya 💯. The experience and camaraderie is what it’s all about. Sharing the woods and making memories.

[@jerrynelson2216]

Was that a cub? Wouldn’t know never even got a look at it on the ground

[@tracestrong6245]

maybe thats why , wasn't real big the ears were wide and looked huge on its head.

[@markschall2333]

Was a fan of both channels, but you lost me on this one. Love the hound hunting, but use it as a tool for selective harvest. Could you have shot a smaller bear? Was it even a boar? Didn't want to show much footage of that one after the kill. I know I'm going to get trolled over this, but the hound hunters I know would have walked away from that bear and kept hunting.

[@20cameron1]

Channel not as good as it used to be when the old crew ran together.

[@clydejohnson6074]

Trolled my a$$... you are spot on!

[@matthewmongar733]

Dead giveaway on small bear was its ears looked huge lol

[@andrewcochran7642]

Zach lives in Colorado this was time limited options limited hunt … the state wva careless size if u legal they have a bunch n want em dead …. Zach was there n rut to bow hunt first beat judge your ass anc your hunt not others

[@HoundMama1121]

When you live and hunt in a state where black bear are so overpopulated they don't tend to be monsters like in the farmlands of places like PA. A 200+ lb bear is a respectable sized bear there. At least WV has a weight limit. In PA you can take a cub that's still on the teat.

[@keving2371]

Them some hills and hollers What county ? Cole acts like he's done this before

[@tracestrong6245]

Coles a Wisconsin boy, he probably has.

[@torreytuff22]

Congratulations

[@adamcrabtree6898]

Yeah baby!!!

[@_Hunters-journey_]

This is so cool

[@tigea9078]

A houndsman life is not for everyone. It takes a different breed of people. Those dogs are your hunting buddies and we all know how strong that bond is. Hopefully as season advances so will the pups. Thanks for bringing us along. BTW looking at those hills makes me love our rolling hills in central ky. I tip my hat to those strip mine hunters.

[@fishinbigkings]

dems some good ol boys right there!!

[@picolascage8123]

Did they show the bear cub they killed??? I was skipping through it but couldn’t see it.

[@DustinHahn-zn5eq]

Josh is one of the best woodsman on the tubes.

[@fairchaseoutdoors4181]

Let’s goooooo!

[@jeremiahflaugh8897]

Thanks for giving houndsman a chance, it is often misunderstood and underappreciated

[@shanebrown2963]

I love hunting but this is one thing I can’t get behind one bit is using dogs to hunt bears. I think it’s BS! They aren’t that hard to get without using dogs

[@clydejohnson6074]

Damn, been watching THP for years now. That was disappointing as hell. I know we are all hunters but to tree a yearling bear a shoot it like that was pathetic. Never thought yall were those type hunters. HIGHLY DISAPPOINTING. (Not that my opinion means a damn thing)

[@TazGrindstaff-g2e]

He’s a Ted nudge t want a b josh ant u figured that out yet plus he’s a 110% yankee and these Appalachian mountains turns those flat landers into warm legging love birds real dang fast lmao.!!! Thanks for sharing

[@dustinstefanski86]

Absolutely disgraceful, this isn’t hunting. The size of the bear aside, dogs have no place chasing animals on the mountain. I’ve heard it referred to as selective hunting, what happens to the bear that gets chased and has the back of its hinds tore up from being bit or nipped? Goes up a tree, pisses all over itself and either gets shot by some obese hillbilly who calls himself a “Hunter”, or they pull the dogs off and the bear has to live with the injuries it sustained. I am not an anti hunter, I consider myself a sportsman and more importantly a conservationist. I hunt elk and deer with my family every year to put meet on the table, we honor and respect each animal we harvest. This was a poor display of sportsmanship and reflects poorly on the rest of us.

[@CameronAdams-dv5sc]

Man this went from my favorite channel to something I can barely watch! Josh I dont know what happened between you Kirk and the boys but since you split Kirk and the boys are thriving and you are sinking! I miss seeing you with all of them, you should swallow your pride and mend ties. Second as a long time hounds man we don’t shoot sows and young bears just to make media, your better than that! That bear was absolutely tiny, I don’t care if Donald J Trump was holding the gun, little lone the hunting public boys! Hounds men are ultimate conservation tools, and you know that! We don’t let our hunters shoot sows and young bears! Period! Stop selling your soul for views! Please do better your painting a bad picture for us! Cameron Adams

[@TheUntamedHunt]

Cameron, respect your comment and appreciate you putting your name. I can get on board with any man speaking his opinion. I will say there’a always more to the story than what is seen and heard within groups so I won’t be sucking up any “pride” as you say. And I’ll agree the bear was small but it was a legal bear by himself. I honestly thought the bear was a 120-125 pounder when I looked at it up in the tree. That’s my mistake and I own it. I can assure you that I am not making/ putting out content “for views”. We as a group would not do anything purposely to hurt the hound hunting community. I appreciate your support and watching our channel over the years and hope you continue to do so but if not I understand. - Josh

[@CameronAdams-dv5sc]

Thanks for the reply Josh! Yes, I believe a man should put his name on anything that he is going to say, that being said I’m sure one day it’s gonna come back to bite me in the ass, but that’s part of it😂 I respect you owning the bear harvest we all make mistakes. just unfortunately, for you guys it ends up being filmed. Just to clear it up when I said to swallow your pride, I was not implying that what ever happened in your group was your fault. I have wrote the same thing on Kirk’s videos. You are 100% right that there’s two sides to every story and I don’t know the story from either side. That’s one thing I respect about you guys is you didn’t air it all out over the Internet. Just sucks that such a great group of friends had to call it quits hopefully one day ties can be mended and at very least we can get some Collab videos. Neither channel is as good without all of you in it, You guys were such a hoot together kept me laughing! As long as the untamed is around I will be subscribed and watching! God bless and keep running those dogs! Cameron Adams

[@TheUntamedHunt]

@@CameronAdams-dv5scthank you buddy.

[@rambler1921]

Nothing about this is cool. Takes the sportsmanship out it completely- nice cub

[@Byler-j2g]

You hate yourself don't you grow up and enjoy life these boys had a blast and you jealous lol

[@jkfishnhunt684]

I totally understand the hunting public guys want to experience a different form of hunting but that doesn't excuse the fact that they pulled the trigger on a cub. They could've experienced it and walked away from the tree and the bear and that would've been all the experience they needed.

[@victorgillett3700]

that ain’t on them, it’s on josh because he’s guiding them and showing them what it’s about

[@jkfishnhunt684]

@ showing them what it's about and shooting a cub are two different things, A guide helps you find an animal it's on the Hunter, to decide whether he wants to shoot it. That's the way it's always been done.

[@glennbailey1529]

That’s some bs! Totally unsportsmanlike. Running a bear up a tree and then shooting it!? I’ve watched you guys for a long time but this one is terrible.

[@hackmanoutdoors1626]

So it's more sportsmanlike to shoot bears without a chance to get away? Sniping it without it knowing your even after it. Yea sounds sporty lmao.

[@glennbailey1529]

@ it’s called free range and this is not.

[@jasonveverka212]

Honestly speechless after watching this. This was not my idea of fair chase hunting.

[@hackmanoutdoors1626]

It's as fair as it gets alot of bear gets away if you watched video you would have seen that.

[@shaneterral5758]

Yeah, i wouldnt show the baby cub either after doing that bullshit.... thats awful man

[@toddschmadl4870]

Typical WV, crappy dog work, small bear of course they kill it. Ya don't need 20 dogs if ya stopped feeding all those "me 'too" dogs. Looks like a Deliverance movie

[@chrislpauli7048]

Lame

[@Bonepile-q5v]

I've been a long time fan of Zach and THP but it takes my respect level down for him a lot when I see a collaboration with that phony josh illderton on harvesting what is basically a cub bear. Too bad those guys had to be involved in that.

[@Huntrace87]

Why is Josh a phony???

[@Huntrace87]

I didn't know Josh was able to pre determine the size of the bear beforehand and I am darn sure he didn't pull the trigger either.. Just because something isn't done to your taste does not mean it is wrong nor illegal. Today's world is tough enough, be kind to others unless they give you Just reason otherwise...

[@adamcrabtree6898]

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Where’s your badass KZbin channel? From deer to bears to turkeys, I guarantee josh out does you in all aspects. You have no idea

[@Bonepile-q5v]

@@Huntrace87 josh is a phony because he traded a hell of a good set of friends so he could have the untamed channel for himself. You may not have been around for years keeping up with the untamed but I have. Anybody who would knife their friends in the back for a damn you tube channel is morally wrong.

[@Bonepile-q5v]

@@Huntrace87 I didn't say it was illegal but it's basically just a cub. And yes he can predetermine the size of a bear. It's not that hard after you see a few dozen.

[@michaelcope2329]

Fully support dog hunting but blocking yiur channel because I cannot stand the hunting public or any member of that outfit Just posting so you know why I blocked you

[@Byler-j2g]

Lmao man some people just have a problem with themselves grow up and enjoy life you hate yourself don't you

[@Jimtom933]

Most bear hunters with hounds would never shoot one that size .