Any Va hunters here use dogs?
09-09-2009, 05:20 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where the ducks don't come no more
Posts: 4,420
I think just about anybody who has hunted for any amount of time in VA has some experience hunting with hounds.
I killed my first deer when I was 6... big old doe being run by beagles. I shudder to thing how many I've killed much the same way since..... piles upon piles.
I'm much more into bowhunting for deer (and three times more over into waterfowl hunting) to do much anymore.... I still love to get together with my friends around Christmas time and cut a pack or two loose on a big farm and shoot off some does for meat needy local folks... especially in places where the doe you do not shoot today is the one you'll have to shoot in June on a kill permit. It is a big social event for me.... barbeque.... good running.... excitement.... thats kinda what it was meant to be. Like anything else... done correctly, its a great mangement tool and a very fun way to hunt... abused... it can be a real black eye for honest hound hunters and all hunters in general.
I killed my first deer when I was 6... big old doe being run by beagles. I shudder to thing how many I've killed much the same way since..... piles upon piles.
I'm much more into bowhunting for deer (and three times more over into waterfowl hunting) to do much anymore.... I still love to get together with my friends around Christmas time and cut a pack or two loose on a big farm and shoot off some does for meat needy local folks... especially in places where the doe you do not shoot today is the one you'll have to shoot in June on a kill permit. It is a big social event for me.... barbeque.... good running.... excitement.... thats kinda what it was meant to be. Like anything else... done correctly, its a great mangement tool and a very fun way to hunt... abused... it can be a real black eye for honest hound hunters and all hunters in general.
09-15-2009, 06:51 PM
#5
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Va
Posts: 89
Years ago when we lived in alittle place called Clover Va we hunted with a hunt club that ran beagles.I really enjoyed watching an listening to those dogs work as a child.Now i am more into sitting in my treestand in a county that does not allow the dogs to run deer.I will probably take my son out this year for his 1st ever hunt an hope he enjoys the outdoors as much as me..........probably take him to an area where they will run dogs.
09-15-2009, 07:13 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 216
Huh... hunted in Virginia for 35+ years, never hunted with dogs. Although I guess you're right, I've had "experience" with hounds while hunting, but that's a different story.
09-15-2009, 08:57 PM
#7
Oh God... Here we go... 
I have only hunted rabbit with my beagle mix, but never hunted deer with a dog.
I go out west to the other side of the George Washington Nat'l Forest to hunt deer out there.
I have only hunted rabbit with my beagle mix, but never hunted deer with a dog.
I go out west to the other side of the George Washington Nat'l Forest to hunt deer out there.
09-16-2009, 04:11 AM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: VA, USA
Posts: 3,116
I think just about anybody who has hunted for any amount of time in VA has some experience hunting with hounds.
I killed my first deer when I was 6... big old doe being run by beagles. I shudder to thing how many I've killed much the same way since..... piles upon piles.
I'm much more into bowhunting for deer (and three times more over into waterfowl hunting) to do much anymore.... I still love to get together with my friends around Christmas time and cut a pack or two loose on a big farm and shoot off some does for meat needy local folks... especially in places where the doe you do not shoot today is the one you'll have to shoot in June on a kill permit. It is a big social event for me.... barbeque.... good running.... excitement.... thats kinda what it was meant to be. Like anything else... done correctly, its a great mangement tool and a very fun way to hunt... abused... it can be a real black eye for honest hound hunters and all hunters in general.
I killed my first deer when I was 6... big old doe being run by beagles. I shudder to thing how many I've killed much the same way since..... piles upon piles.
I'm much more into bowhunting for deer (and three times more over into waterfowl hunting) to do much anymore.... I still love to get together with my friends around Christmas time and cut a pack or two loose on a big farm and shoot off some does for meat needy local folks... especially in places where the doe you do not shoot today is the one you'll have to shoot in June on a kill permit. It is a big social event for me.... barbeque.... good running.... excitement.... thats kinda what it was meant to be. Like anything else... done correctly, its a great mangement tool and a very fun way to hunt... abused... it can be a real black eye for honest hound hunters and all hunters in general.
Been hunting in VA since 1978 and never used dogs for deer hunting....plenty of rabbit, fowl, and coons, but not deer. Depends on what part of the state you hunt.
09-17-2009, 03:43 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Danville Va. U.S.A.
Posts: 2,324
Years ago when we lived in alittle place called Clover Va we hunted with a hunt club that ran beagles.I really enjoyed watching an listening to those dogs work as a child.Now i am more into sitting in my treestand in a county that does not allow the dogs to run deer.I will probably take my son out this year for his 1st ever hunt an hope he enjoys the outdoors as much as me..........probably take him to an area where they will run dogs.
Probally hunted more with the hounds more than any other way during my life.Because of where I live.Helped build the power plant in Clover Va.