Man, first day of bowseason in Indiana. I get in my stand about an hour before daylight, sitting up in the tree, it's going to be a great morning. I'm sitting on the route between their bedding area and a lake. And torwards the lake from my stand about 30 yards are 4 persimmon trees and a few nice white oaks bearing acorns. A dream place to hunt. I heard deer movement all morning, mostly in the cornfield (which hasn't been cut yet.) I hear grunts to my left from the acorn tree area, then I hear a lot of running. Then I see a pack of dogs. Chase everything off at about 10:00. Then, they kick up a rabbit and start chasing it all around. They never left site for 10 minutes. I finally had enough and drew back. Lucky for the mutts they didn't get out from behind a thicket of vines/limbs or I would be having hot dogs for lunch.

What would you guys do? Shoot the dogs? I did yell at them and scared them off, then climbed down out of disgust. I'm going back this evening to the acorn tree, maybe I'll have better luck.

Would shooting the dogs be wrong? If you ask me, if people don't care enough to keep them penned or on a chain(or on their own property) they don't care if they get shot. I'm just aggravated right now I guess. ARGH I HATE DOGS!