ORIGINAL: jwinston
We need to work together to fight the deer dog hunters. They say that deer dog hunting is a tradition. Riding around in a truck following a dog with a tracking collar or GPS is not a tradition.Why should the VDGIF let the deer dog hunterscontinue to use dogs and break more laws? They may not be robbing a bank but they are still breaking the law when they shot 10 or 20 bucks a year. Sure there are some deer dog hunters that hunt the dogs the right way. Most of the dog hunters in this area shoot as many deer as they can because their dogs are running them. Also many of these so-called hunters do not care if the land is posted.Hunting with deer dogs is a joke. I'm glad so many people are posting these great comments against the deer dog hunters. It seems that the deer dog hunters that are posting their comments are mad because the truth is coming out about how these outlaws hunt.
No mainly we get mad when people make ignorant blanket statement comments and lump good, respectful, law abiding dog hunters in with whatever bad experiences they have had in their lives. Take for example your comment....that is some very thorough research there and the numbers are shocking, those dog hunters are bad, thanks for bringing those horror stories to light for us. You forgot to mention that it is a known fact that every person that violates a game law or poaches or trespasses or doesn't tag their deer correctly they are all dog hunters or related to one(or they at least own a dog).
I doubt you know any one hunter who kills 10-20 bucks a season but if you do then his correct title is poacher, not dog hunter and you should probably report him to the game warden. As far as the amount of deer killed, Va has very liberal bag limits and many clubs hunt with the DMAP program sopeople can kill just about whatever is running and however many they wantbecause probably 75% of the time what'sbeing runare does. If dog hunting and dog hunting clubs were removed from VA do you have any idea the population problems we would have. Who is going to pick up the slack in the deer harvest #'s, still hunters? Not likely unless the season was about 3 months longer and I don't say that as an attack on still hunters because I am one of those aswell it's just that realistically dog clubs generealyy harvest a lot of deer..
Great first post by the way, do you know "Corky" from that old TVseries "Life Goes On"?
I was just wondering.