Actually rick, coon hunting and running coyotes with hounds is very common, along with hunting with bird dogs and beagles. ALL of those activities overlap with deer season but problems are pretty dam rare. I've never had a still deer hunt, squirrel hunt, or varmint huntthat i can honestly say was interupted by dogs, even if they were in the same general area. In therecent instance where i can recall the coyote hounds coming thru while a friend was deer hunting on an adjacent tract of land, they actually ran a bunch of deerright toward him. However, despite the fact that deer hunter/dog confrontations are pretty rare, there is always a small core of deer hunters who would love to see ALL forms of dog hunting go the way of the buffalo so that that they can have the woods to themselves. And they can always find animal rights activists willing to climb into bed with them for that cause. Youare pretty sillyif you don't understandthat a similar mindset operates with a significant portion of the folks in VA that want to "reform" hound hunting. The states amy be different, but theoverall agenda of the anti-hunters remain the same.