If common sense were common, everyone would have it.

My experience with deer dog hunting is Louisiana where every large tract of land leased to run dogs often ends up with plenty of illegal deer stands and drivers on it.No dog hunting in Ohio or Illinois where I currently do most of my hunting, but you still get complaints about dogs. Much of the time it issomeonescreaming bloody murder if they hear a beagle chasing a rabbit a mile away. Of course you occasionally do get acase of dogs running past a stand (just clears the deer out for miles LOL), but much of the time someone is just crying wolf because they dont like the idea of anyone or anything being within miles of them.

I agree with you buckwild, my hunting buddy andI lease 170 acers in Orange Co Va for the last two years. its right in the middle of several very large farm land tracts. hunting or at leasts seeing deer in the early season is very good,,, untill the dogs come out. in the past i have done real goodwith scent control and i use to spray regular doe pee on my boot solesto help mask my scentand have had several bucks follow my trail right to the tree stand. But three times last year I had some ones dogs (barking all the way) track me andthe doe pee rightdown my trail,totwo different tree stands and once tracked me while i was still huntingnear a river crossing. i would NEVER hurt someones dog, thier just doing what come natural. but i would sure like to ruin the owners hunting day if i could find them.
If you hunt with dogs.. Fine. Keep them on your own property. If I see you on my property you will be proving to the GW you were on my property to look for your waywerd dogs. You dont have the right to stomp thru my property spreding your scent around willy nilly because you cant controle your dogs....... nuf said

Well, if a lot of folks would keep their stands on their own property, then there would be much less problems with tresspass. And that's nationwide, not just in some areas[:@]

And the beat goes onnnnnn.....and the beat goes on.

And you can bet that you will get at least two more threads like this with pretty much the same crowd saying pretty much the same thing before hunting season rolls around.

I wish the best for everyone, dog hunter or not. I know many of you are steeped in tradition and that is what makes hunting/family so special for all of us. Respect can and has to be the bridge that links us all together so that we can all enjoy the hunt for lifetimes to come.

Brett