Ya bear hunting with dogs is defiantly a younger mans sport and very addictive if you get hooked. If they ever brought it back I couldn't do a good dog justice. All though I'd still be doing it if they hadn't pushed us out of the woods. I was supposed to be dead from cancer 6 1/2 years ago and just passed my July 24th date when I was told I prolly had 6 months in 2012. Didn't have time to die I guess. The dog hunting was the most fun I could have ever had. I hunted with a few guys from the coast, both here and over there. It's funny, over here some of there dogs were pretty slow. But when I hunted over there , my fast dogs were almost like cripples. They didn't know how to get threw the brush. But every race was fun! One time we had a bear bayed up over by Mt Baker. I couldn't figure out why everyone was standing there listening cause it was right below the road. So I charged in to kill it and got introduced to devils club. Live and learn.