Please enlighten me then. Are you saying that you have more of a right to public land because you are hunting deer and I am hunting squirrel(or any other game)? Are you saying that you have the right to kill a dog just because it wanders on to your property?

If so, you are wrong on both counts. There have been many court cases where people paid out vast sums of money for shooting a dog that was only treeing, and not harassing any livestock...even on their own property. Dogs can't read a "no tresspassing sign", so many states have enacted a right to retrieve law which says that I have the right to gfet my dog and leave the woods immediatly should they stray on to private property.

The only time that one of my dogs ever chased a deer(chased, not ran...big difference) is when she kicked it up while hunting coon. That was my fastest dog, and she never stood a chance of catching that doe. It was halfway across the county before she even knew what was going on. Even if she did catch it, that doe could take care of itself.

You automatically assume that it was the dog that injured the deer. Yet that was never said. In fact, the original poster did not know what happened to the deer yet. Maybe it got caught in a trap, maybe somebody was a lowsy shot and just wounded it.

You say that many hunters(I'm guessing that you include yourself due to your previous statements) wouldn't think twice about shooting at a dog. Believe me when I tell you that most dog owners wouldn't think twice about shooting back.