Originally Posted by 7.62NATO

I don't think hunting deer with dogs is a lazy way to hunt from the perspective of physical work, especially if you're the handler. I think it's lazy from a predatory standpoint. That doesn't mean there aren't plenty of hunters who don't use dogs who are predatorily lazy too, because there are. Instead of getting out there and learning the movements of the deer, doing the work it takes to get in the right place at the right time without being detected, doing the work it takes to trek in long distances while sweating your balls off and then having a way to stay warm when it is time to stay still, or doing the work it takes to go one-on-one with a deer and silently track him down by following his sign and killing him in his bedroom, you simply let the dogs rouse the deer and wait off their escape routes. How much do you even have to consider wind direction when the deer are actively being chased?

As far as it being "legal" to retrieve your dogs from private land, let me inform you that "legal" is not the barometer for what's right. I can legally be an a-hole to my neighbor 365 days a year, but it doesn't make it right. So if you can't control your domesticated animals the way every other citizen is required to and keep them from going onto other people's land, it ain't right.

But, as others have stated, you can't expect dog hunters to think like this or comprehend that their methods are invasive, disruptive, overbearing and inconsiderate. That's right. It's inconsiderate, especially when you are in the minority, to take your dogs and literally run them from one side of public land to the other, basically running through every area, and have your standers mosey on in well after daybreak and tramp through the woods without a care in the world. You are a minority forcing your way of hunting on everyone else in the woods. Comprende????

And I don't care if I "may" see a buck or two that I normally wouldn't see. That isn't the point, but I wouldn't expect dog hunters to get that. I normally wouldn't have a beagle or a hound come within ten feet of me, circle me over and over while howling its head off, either!

I hope the deer develop enough of a defensive nature to realize that these little pooches pose no real threat to them, and start stomping and gaffing them to death!