Replace dog hunter or dog hunting with hunter and hunting , respectively. Do you feel the same way?

Fact is, Pierre did not overstate the case. Many years ago, a person was killed over a dog deer hunting incident and the tensions prior to that were about as high as they are today.

The issue here is not dog deer hunting, but a few disrespectful, unethical hunters. As it stands, there are currently only two options for handling this environment - restrict the days for dog deer hunting or eliminate it from a county. This is painting with a broad brush. Every hunter gets painted with bad apples color. None of us prefer to be painted with the dregs of our community, do we?

What has been needed here is a new tool. A tool that allows the problem clubs to excised from the good, the bad apples located and then thrown out of teh bunch. A scalpel instead of a paintbrush. As a result, the Georgia Dog Hunters Assoc. met with Rep. Bob Lane and drafted legislation that if it passes will provide DNR a tool to handle these situations while still maintaining a part of our hunting heritage. The bill is HB 845 and is in the Rules Committee waiting on a chance to go to the floor of the House for a vote. The good, ethical hunters who participate in dog deer hunting could use some assistance from the rest of us hunters - United we satnd; Divided we fall. If you do not stand up for them we they need it, then why should they help you when you need it?


FYI, the fight in Jenkins County was an unethical, disrespectful hunter who broke the jaw of a landowner in front of the landowner' s 13-year old grandson becuase the hunter was trespassing.