Montana Bear Hunt vs Texas Hogs: What We Learned
Montana Bear Hunt vs Texas Hogs: What We Learned. Texas hog hunters tackle Montana black bear on public land. We spotted bears, missed opportunities, and learned hard lessons about DIY vs guided hunts. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/eaglerun23#person", "name": "EagleRun23", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/eaglerun23", "description": "EagleRun23 is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/1b2b5520-38e5-4e0d-9cd2-3adef368bc3c.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/montana-bear-hunt-texas-hog-hunters#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/montana-bear-hunt-texas-hog-hunters" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/montana-bear-hunt-texas-hog-hunters", "headline": "Montana Bear Hunt vs Texas Hogs: What We Learned", "name": "Montana Bear Hunt vs Texas Hogs: What We Learned", "description": "Texas hog hunters tackle Montana black bear on public land. We spotted bears, missed opportunities, and learned hard lessons about DIY vs guided hunts.", "articleSection": "Hunting", "articleBody": "A Montana bear hunt is almost the exact inverse of a Texas hog hunt, and that's the whole lesson in EagleRun23's 31-minute trip debrief on Greyhive. No bait. No thermals. No dark-thirty ambush over a feeder. Just five days of hiking, glassing, and sitting on uncomfortable rocks on a mix of public and private ground, hoping a black bear walks into a lane you can actually shoot. The EagleRun23 host and his hunting partner break the whole trip down after the fact — the two bear encounters that never turned into shot opportunities, the subsonic SBR setups, the sidearm debate, the backpack and sling problems nobody talks about until day four, and the honest cost math on DIY versus guided. The crew was four hunters deep: the host, William from Florida, a Washington elk hunter who runs the \"This Elk\" page, and Travis from Eat Elk — the only one in the group who had actually hunted bears before. They came home with zero bears and a long list of things they'd change. That list is worth more to anyone planning a first bear trip than a tagged-out highlight reel would be. Key Takeaways Montana black bear is fair chase: no baiting, and no thermal optics for bear — though thermals stay legal for coyotes on the same ground. All four hunters planned to shoot bears with suppressed SBRs running 323-grain subsonic loads, with zeros and chronograph data verified at altitude before the hunt. Five days of glassing produced two bear encounter…