ORIGINAL: reflexkid
If you ask me, I dont think you should be able to hunt anything but birds with dogs. Its not even hunting when you have a dog chase an animal up to a tree and then you walk up and shoot it. People who hunt bears with dogs just make me sick. How can you take your good old time walking through the woods talking and laughing, let your dogs run out a few miles ahead of you and let them find a bear and chase it up a tree, then when ytou hear them bark, you walk up to the bear in the tree and shoot it while its just looking at you and cant go anywhere. You call that hunting?
Yep, I call that hunting... I don't feel a huge need to explain myself here, but I thought I'd let you know that a squirrel dog (I cannot speak for bear hunting...never done it) doesn't "chase" it up a tree...Usually the animal is already at the tree, the dog trails it with its nose and barks treed when it smells the pharamones from up in a tree. Then you have to make sure the dog didn't lie, you have to find the squirrel up in the thick leaves of a tree before it timbers out or goes into den.etc There are many factors, probably more than when hunting birds with a dog...So how are you saying that bird hunting over a dog is fair if using a tree dog isn't. The birddog finds the game for you and pinpoints it for you, then you flush them, knowing right where they are at. They fly up in mid air right in front of you, usually within yards of you and your dog. You need only have the skills to shoot them. According to your reasoning, this seems like it shouldn't be allowed either...Actually sounds easier than using tree dogs for squirrels...And while we're on the subject, if using a dog to tree game isn't fair, then how can sitting fifteen feet up a tree with scent proof clothing, a lethal weapon, and knowlege that you're on an active deer trail be hunting either You need only get certain ducks in a row before you've got the game on the ground. Maybe to someone the only fair way to hunt a deer is walking around with stick bow or a speer. Maybe some say the only fair way is to use a rifle and put the animal straight to the ground with no running off to die....you see, it can go both ways. Hunting is hunting in all it's forms...My point is not that bowhunting isn't fair, as I am a bigtime bowhunter myself...what I am saying is that if your reason for saying some form of hunting isn't fair, then there's probably something that someone else thinks is unfair about your hunting...Try hunting with a dog and then call it unfair...I can kill a bag limit by sitting on a log, but maybe only tree a few with a good dog. But, everyone deserves their opinion, and I will respect yours, but I just disagree
