ORIGINAL: deepzak
ORIGINAL: rlfarmsva
Here they go again.THE SAME PEOPLE who build houses beside air bases and then complain about jet noise.THE SAME PEOPLE who move from the city,buy a peice of property,put up a fence and a gate even before they(if ever)try to get to know their neighbor who probably has lived there all his life,then decide the don't like the way things are so I"ll do my best to change them.They build in the middle of a field and complain about the farmer spraying or plowing the field beside the house.They build beside a hog house or cow pasture,then complain about the smell.They complain about the farmer blocking the road with wide equipment.I don"t see why they don"t just move to a place where people thank like them.Oh sorry,I guess that might mean more jet noise,traffic and murder.I dog hunt and still hunt.If you would sit in your stand a few minutes more until the dogs pass(even if you don" shoot the deer witch most do because its probably the first one they haveseen all day)the woods will shortly return to normal.The deer that is not being run by the dogs will stand and watch them pass and then return to normal activities.I wish you would all move back to the city and quit trying to ruin our lives.
This is a very arrogant posting.
What you are saying is that when someone lays out their hard earned money and buys a piece of property and pays the taxes on it, that they should not be allowed to do whatever they want with it because someone has been running dogs on it for the last 10 years. I must ask then, why didn't YOU buy the property so that you can continue the "tradition"? All you had to do to buy it is offer more money.
I have never shot a deer in front of dogs, yet, unlike in your posting, I see deer all the time. I killed 7 this year, 9 last year and 7 the year before. Those are the ones that I chose to shoot and not counting the ones that I let walk. To say that it is impossible to hunt SE VA without dogs is a lie. To say that dog running contributes so significantly to the annual deer harvest is a mis-direction of the truth; they do add to the annual deer harvest, but it could also be done without dogs if people actually put time and effort into their hunting. And just so you know, because you are either releasing the hounds or on stand waiting for them so you don't necessarily see, deer do not just stand there when a pack of dogs are coming, they leave the area, usually in a hurry.
You hit the nail on the head with that one. Try finding a hotel or place to stay west of the no-dog line during gun season. It's hunting that helps the economy, not specifically dog hunting. If deer dogging is so darn effetive why are there so many damage permits issues east of the blue ridge? Just more dog chasing BS that's been repeated over and over in hopes people will buy it.