ORIGINAL: rafsob
As faras dog hunting, I love it, but not fordeer hunting. Birds, rabbits are great times. But whenwe hunt these game we always had good control of our dogs. They didn't run all overthe place where they were notallowed.
A lot of that has to do with where the dogs are put out to start with, and the kinds of dogs that are typically used for hunting deer... if hunt clubs would start running beagles instead of long-legged dogs that would solve a heck of a lot of the problem.... not to mention that most clubs would probably kill more deer because the dogs would be more prone to stay in the hunt rather than running 4 miles to a river or a highway. I've shot piles of deer infront of both walkers and beagles... but the best hunts I've ever been on have either been with walkers on HUGE blocks with lots of hunters and lots of dogs... or in sub 300 acre chunks with 15-20 beagles coming in from three directions... they just bump the deer along and get the deer up and moving.... you can whack 'em.