Average Joe

First, lets get that "RTR" law abolished in Virginia! The longer that "unconstitutional law" is allowed to live the sooner it's going to be before some Hound Hunter or some Property owner gets killed in a dispute, which we all know is in favor of property owners!
If Hound Hunters stand any chance in the future they need to admit that the RTR law is wrong, take measures to have it abolished, and then and only then will other hunting groups hear what they are saying!

flips2

I find rather amusing that you reference the bear hound training/chase season in this post. According to the VDGIF website this season is Dec. 7-12 for 4 counties and Aug 8- Sept 26 for 35 counties and some of them are only for half the county. By my account that is only 8 weeks of it or roughly 2 months. You are proposing deer hound training/chase season that is approximately 20 weeks long or roughly 4 months. Also you want it to be 24/7 training while the bear season is One-half hour before sunrise to 4-½ hours after sunset. Really how much time do you need to train your pups? If you need that much time then maybe you need to get better dogs.

I have hunted with dogs in the past for several years and I do like this style of hunting, but I think this is ridiculous. I have one question to ask you, Are you going to get permission from a landowner at 3:00am to retrieve you dogs if they happen to stray across a property line chasing a deer?

I guess we will have some messed up racks on bucks since they will be running scared and hitting them on everybranch or fence while in velvet.

Root'em Up Kennels

didn't you say in another post somewhere else that any change in there pattern will make them go nocturnal now its just the dogs since thats the topic how about I keep my big ole' truck, buckshot, and dogs and you keep the change

Root'em Up Kennels

no just looking for support if you don't like then so be it. You guys on this site are an angry bunch us low life rowdy bunch of rednecks have some dogs to run got to go.

bryant1

The Florida FWC, who else?

It hasn't ruined my hunt in 5 years that I can think of. Deer that are use to being ran and hearing dogs running don't normally even acknowledge the dogs are running within 200 yds of them unless they are the one being chased. They normally don't even pick their heads up when feeding and it doesn't affect their movement patterns(unless again, they are being chased).

Antidog hunter propaganda tells you that dog running will run every deer for miles away from your stand if a pack of running dogs passes by, but us that still hunt in dog hunting clubs know much different. I too was really hesitant to start still hunting in a dog running club, but now you get me to leave there for any 'still hunt only' club in the county.

Root'em Up Kennels

I didn't Know you could eat the antlers ain't it kinda crunchy and no I will not be getting permission from landowners at 3am because I have enough sense to have already gotten my written permission that is not even needed cuz where I come from we don't live or hunt or whatever beside someone for 10 years and not know their name but for those who will not welcome me on to there land I simply wait on the other side until the dogs come out its that easy

brewman555

Thats the problem.....if your not welcomed on someone`s land then you should keep your dogs off of it too.....

Root'em Up Kennels

I'll have a talk with them

flips2

No I don't eat antlers but that doesn't mean I wouldn't mind a chance at shooting a nice buck with a nice rack, as most people here probably would. I am glad to know you would have enough sense to get written permission to retrieve your dogs but not every dog hunter does. That type of careless behavior is the exact reason why I stopped hunting with several different dog hunting clubs.

I am curious why you didn't address the time frame of your deer hound training/chasing season? Why will it take double the time to train deer hounds than bear hounds? I can only assume there was an agreement made with bear hound hunters and the game department on the time frame of their season and the hunters were satisfied with the amount of time allotted to them to train their dogs. At the very most if a deer hound training season was established then it should be no longer than the bear hound training season. I can not comment on what time of the year it should take place because I have not studied the effects of it and there where some good points made in earlier post in reference to this.

Good luck with it but I will voice my opinion when it comes up, if it does.

fastetti

We may be, but at least we learned how to spell and use commas and periods. So these are the people that my clothes go to when I donate them to goodwill......If you have nothing positive to add to this site, please stay off.