What Would You Do?
10-25-2009, 05:48 PM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bruceton mills WV USA
Posts: 253
What Would You Do?
Ok so my life revolves around 3 things My Wife, My Harley, and Bow Hunting (importance changes depending on the season). My d!ck head brother in-law (sisters husband) lives to chase bears with dogs. I have suspected that he has been training his dogs wile bow season has been in. Until today I had no proof, I was out checking deer cams today and found one of his dogs completely outfitted with its tracking collar. I am of the opinion that a couple of guys running around in the woods chasing a half a dozen dogs in the dark is going to affect deer movement especially mature bucks. So when I returned his dog this evening I ask him to please not run his dogs until Bear season officially opens in December. Am I being unreasonable? Below is one of 3 shooter bucks I have been hunting.
10-25-2009, 06:37 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Trempealeau, WI
Posts: 1,138
Training dogs is just like target shooting your bow. It has to be done and can't be done during the season if you expect to accomplish anything or try and keep your dogs on track all year long. Also alot of people believe running dogs at night can increase chances of seeing those nocturnal bucks. It gets them all off their patterns and makes em travel at different hours. I've always wondered about it too but we run alot of my buddies coon dogs here and we run em where I hunt sometimes where he hunts, and on other farms that kill good bucks every year and it hasn't hurt my success during the season the last two years. You both are trying to do what you love doing which makes it complicated so the best suggestion I can give is ask him nicely if you guys can make some sort of an agreeable plan he could run his dogs not very often or maybe find out when you arent going to be in the woods a couple days. Really though I think youll be fine hunting your bucks either way. Good luck. WCL
10-26-2009, 04:49 AM
#6
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bruceton mills WV USA
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The land belongs to me and my sisters (1 is his wife). His responce was "don't worry about it". His family has land also that he could be running his dogs on. Maybe I am makeing to mich of this, but it just upsets me when I finish checking cams and get back to my parking spot only to find a bear dog hanging out wateing on a ride back to town.
