I have a joke I plan to tell people who hunt with me or near me..."You shoot my dog, I shoot you!" Of course I wouldn't, but if someone shoots my dog in unfair play, he better be ready for me to lose my tempor. It's the attitude of some hunters that says, "these are "my" woods" when it's public land. My granddad probably wouldn't hesitate to shoot a dog on his property...I'd be more likely to befriend a hunting dog I found in the woods. I know that private property is a different story, and landowners have their rights, but if I were a landowner and I knew my neighbor hunted dogs on the adjacent place, I wouldn't shoot one for following game into my property...Hunting dogs don't know what a fence means, they are just doing what their genes are telling them to do...get the game!