I've read this entire thread tonight with great interest and couldn't resist giving my 2 or 3 cents.

The statement that "A dog can't READ" is the whole problem with dog deer hunting. If they could read and they stopped at the Dog Hunting Club line without going onto other's property there would be no problems, so I agree with the land owners who complain.

I don't understand why a hunting "Organization" would be against bowhunting on private land on Sunday. That just makes them as bad as P.E.T.A. or the other ANTI-HUNTING groups out there.

Where I live and hunt, before the ban of running dogs for deer, it was a common practice for the dogs to be let loose on one property that the doggers didn't have permission to be on in the first place. They would then either run the deer to the doggers property or who knows where, and it was that very thing that got the most complaints. It was also the very thing that got alot of deer dogs shot.

Think about it like this: A guy has maybe a couple hundered acres to hunt. He wants to kill a nice buck so he passes up the small ones. Then one day he sees a 6 point that he's seen numerous times and has let walk on more than one occasion, and he let's it walk again. Then here comes a pack of hounds and they get after the deer he was hoping to take in the FUTURE, and run it off the property and he hears shots 2 or 3 properties over. Then when he gets finished hunting for the day and goes to the store,therein the back of someones truck is the deer he's been passing on all season. Talk about being pissed. You can bet money the next time a pack of hounds come through, guess what, he's hunting dogs. And the doggers wonder why someone would shoot their dogs. Because in his eyes they are now STRAYS. Not to mention he remembers the earlier incident.

A biologist once told me the only canines that were supposed to be in the woods are Coyotes, Foxes, and Wolves. PERIOD!


If I were a quail hunter I wouldn't want those dogs included in your "ORG.". It's a whole different kind of hunting.

Personally,I don't have a problem with hunting deer with dogs...as long as you can keep them on your land 100% of the time...Until then I'm totally against it.