Never hunted them with dogs, I sure despise them. I moved Levy County thirty years ago and live on forty acres near Cedar Key. At that time there were gopher turtle mounds about every five hundred feet, there are no more. The ?#@&><; coyotes have dug them up and used them for dens. I've done o.k. using large box traps near the den and dispatched them that way and when I see one in the woods just shoot them on sight. The other night a pack of them were in my back yard. I put on my night vision googles and killed two using my Mossberg turkey shotgun with number four steel shot. But they are sure a pain.