ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
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.
LCC I know in the 4-5 weeks I've spent in Ill., I never heard or seen a hound in the woods and I seriously doubt the hunters/landowners that I met would put up with during deer season. I'm certain that they would not put up with a houndsmen (or anyone else)trespassing on their land/leases anytime they wanted. I'm sure we can post on the Midwest section and ask those guys how the would feel about hounds running deer on their lands during bow season.
So what happens in Ill. If you go on posted land without permission?
I don't see complaints here about coon, rabbit, or (real)foxhounds. As faras bird dogs, I can say I've never had a problem with mine hunting off property that I have permission to be on.
If you want to talk about climbing in bed with PETA and HSUS. The VHDA did that to block lifting the ban on Sunday hunting in VA. So WHO is anti-hunting?
Call me silly if you want. I've never said that hounds shouldn't be run where they're legal and the hunters have permission. I also expect them stay off prohibited land and it's their problem to figure out how to do that.It's not my problem to learn to live with it.