I'm thinking of taking a day off from bow season and video the adjoining cub letting dogs out and them file a suit for harassment. Also by letting the dogs go they effectively interfere with another's legal hunt. It's illegal to interfere with a legal hunt. They're messing up my bowhunt. There has got to be a way to stop their crap legally.

reswire...Funny thing about the signs about traps...I had thought about doing that...Asked the local Game Warder (down here in NC)...Seems we have a county law prohibiting land owners from setting traps until after deer season...

Interesting to me that others have more rights to MY land than I actually do..

It's a heck of a problem, and the dog hunters don't seem to care who owns the land and who's hunt they are ruining...I have made it a practice to shoot every deer they run buy me when on my own property....It's also interesting that as soon as they know I've killed the deer they were running, how quickly they pick up their dogs and go find another place to run...

If you've already had problems why save it for a rainy day. Do it NOW and maybe next season you won't have any problems at all.

There is a way, and we need to form our own organization, get motivated and lobby state senators ourselves. Let's do it!! When and how can we start this, I'm ready!!

Maybe we need to start with a web site and see how much support there really is. Virginians for Dog Hunting Reform ? VDHR.org ?
Realistically reform and fixing the problems are what needs to be done. I do not expect nor really want to stop the dog chasers 100%. If the problem issues can be fixed or greatly reduced and a few laws changed reform might happen over time. If we can get something started on change and a realistic fix proposed we might have a chance. As fed up with it as I am I still think a meeting half way is the best place to start. A total end of it is not a realistic goal or expectation to just happen over night.

Let's get the thing started. I'm ready, please give me a e-mail. We just need to get started, they will come.

Hello fellow hunters!
I am on board for fixing this problem. Yahoo and cudos to finally find a group of ethical hunters who only want to still hunt their property or lease without it being ruined at 8 am or 330pm by a bunch of tresspassing dogs and quite often their owners with loaded weapons in their truck on our property. Sick of it! I visit family over the holiday's and they have property and I have permission to hunt the adjoining property. It's getting to the point where I have a better advantage just sitting in the backyard with some coffee and a snack then to do the work required for a still hunt. I have literally had club dogs curl up next to me while I was on a hunt. I will share more later but at this moment the lids are getting heavvvvvvvv......... vvv..... y

Bigg~BirddVA......I think Virginians for Dog Hunting Reform is a great idea.....I`d bet if you start a thread on this forum you will get a lot of support......Like the rest of you i`m sick and tired of dogs and dog hunters screwing up my hunt.....I`ll put my name on the VDHR list........Mike

I'm a dog hunter, really don't appreciate the accusations that all of us are guilty of trespassing. But I am for ethical reform. I believe in 1000 continuous acres and accountability for clubs and individuals. I can say that because I hunt with retrievers and bird dogs, which do a great job and can be controlled. Hounds run too fast and too far. They are great to listen too, I love the music, but you can't control them. No way in hell. If you start a reasonable organization, keep down the hate music, you would get alot of older doggers who are willing to compromise and keep their sport.

Do it right and I'd be in with a few friends to boot.

Thank you. There are a few good ones, some in the middle and some on the wrong end. I too understand that to make all suffer for the bad ones is not the right thing to do. A middle ground that addresses the issues is what need to be done to fix it. Then we can all move on and do what we love to do. Fighting isn't really it for most of us.