ORIGINAL: dogger69
I'm with you va houndsman. All this pissin for nothing. We hunt in the road all the time and no one gets hurt. So what. We put a walkie talkie at each end of the road, we no where the game wardens are because we see them coming and the cars too. I've shot some great deer this way, and it's legal here in Essex and Caroline county. The cops here don't care and the game warden dont care either. We do it all the time. I hunt were I want because it's my right. Ive been hunting in the woods and the roads, anywhere I want, so does my club. We don't try and turn dogs on other peoples land but sometimes they cross the lines, the deer cross the roads, we kill them, nobody gets hurt. I'm gonna post a u-tube video of how we do it legal. We are careful and the sheriff doesn't care. After all, it's still america right??? Tell that $#^& head big mouth bird to shove his camera up his #$$!! I've got a camera too, and I'm gonna start putting legal dogging on the internet. We only had two dogs get run over in the last four years, and we havn't shot anyone. We only shoot on roads that are straight and don't have too many turns. We can put at least 25 hunters safely in a road to hunt without problems. It's no different than a traffic accident or any other time the road gets blocked. Hunt on brothers, I hear the dogs barking!
Dogger,
I am a die-hard hound hunter and I have this to say to you...
" Please step away from your computer and never post anything on the internet about your hunting tactics ever again. Matter of fact, it would probably be best if you canceled your ISP contract and just never got on the internet again period."
You, my friend are exactly the reason I fear for the future of our sport. Who hunts ON the road, honestly? And then comes bragging about it as if it's totally a great thing to be doing. The only time our club ever gets near a road is if our dogs are headed to a major road. and when we get on the road our guns are unloaded and KEPT IN THE TRUCK!while we are out trying to slow traffic and catch the dogs. "to hell with the deer at this point"
We get on the road ONLY to keep an accident from occuring and to keep our dogs from getting killed. Most passers-by appreciate that, I think, although we do get cussed from time to time for "slowing down traffic", but thats better than an accident we always tell them.
It almost seems that Dogger's post is just fake and inflamitory because I liveclose tohis part of VA and have never seen hunters act the way he is describing.
You say that "we hunt in the road all the time and noone gets hurt"
Well that may be so... for now... but the first time an accident happens and you put some buckshot through a car's windshield, That will be it for dog hunting in Virginia and you will only have yourself to blame.
What I am getting at is, Why take the risk of slinging lead around motorists? The likelyhood of a vehicle getting shot is much higher than if you were in the woods.Is there some reason your hunters don't get out and walk into the woods?
What you say you do is a dangerous practice and if they ban dog hunting because of the actions of you and your kind then I can honestly say that "I wouldn't blame them one bit"
How's that for "Policing our own?"