Running'em with dogs is an awesome, but sadly dying tradition. Been in on a couple of bear hunts in coastal NC, mainly as a spectator, but that is an adranaline rush, that is hard to beat. Just hearing the dogs coming, knowing that there looking at the bear, is something you will never forget. I know I have seen a lot of Tenn plates while down on the coast, I was usually there for the ducks but bear season coinsided. I have seen some of the biggest, hairiest, ugliest men you will ever see that come out of the mountains to run those big bears.