How do you hunt your deer with dogs or...

[rickyford2]

ANy more voters?


Ricky

 

[sethjewell]

Don't call me a tree hugger but I just don't much like the idea of hunting deer with dogs. It just doesn't set right with me I've seen it done. Most of the people have no respect for the animals.

 

[mustanger98]

It just doesn't set right with me I've seen it done. Most of the people have no respect for the animals.

As with any other animal-oriented activity, I'd say that probably varies one group to the next.

 

[JWarren]

Voted...I am a still hunter, but I know some dog hunters.

I don't really care for dog hunting, but it is within the law.

Now I won't deny that I do tend to have a problem with how some dog hunters apply their craft. I've seen one group throw dogs out at the start of a woods, and then have others at the exit point. Never mind that the dogs will have to traverse 3 other people's property to get to the exit point.

There is nothing quite like sitting in your deer stand deep in your own property and watch a pack of dogs run through your food plot. That happened to me at the end of last season-- and has happened before that as well.

I found out that one of the landowners in this woods gave some of his friends permission to do a "dog run" at the end of the season last year. I'll be informing him this week that he needs clearly define where they can go and where they cannot go this year.


-- John

 

[Jeffreii]

voted for stalking option, though I guess I don't really stalk a whole lot. Most of the deer I shoot happen when I am out offroading along a primitive trails out west in the mountains and deserts and a spot a deer. Range is usually not too bad, and the deer are then sent into the freezer, usually being converted into bratwurst along the way

I do drives a lot if I am in the mid west

 

[paintballdude902]

i mostly still hunt but i have been hunting with beagles and it is a lot of fun

cant wait till next season to do it again

 

[rickyford2]

Thanks for all the votes I got a lot more then I thought I would get thanks.



Ricky

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Being from the south I used to hunt deer with dogs. Spent more time and gas trying to catch up all the dogs. It was very exciting especially for a kid and there were a bunch of us. I woun't even consider it today. It's too expensive (heck I've got 3 inside dogs that eat me out of house and home.)

 

[Navy joe]

I know good dog hunters, the deer dog fellas where I grew up were not among the good. Their hunts involved a cordon op of a 6 mile by 4 mile area bounded by state roads. 15 some trucks, 30-40 hunters, all with radios and guns. No respect for property owners whatsoever. Also common in that area is wounding the deer because it makes the dogs run better. If that is not bad enough the way the dogs are treated the other 50 weeks of the year is often criminal.

I still hunt, too cheap and bored to sit in a tree stand.

Public land, still hunting goes out of the window. I want to get to where I'm going either 11pm or 4am. I want no shooting light and nobody in the woods when I'm moving. I get where I'm going and sit. I walk out in the early afternoon, trying to look and sound as unlike a deer as possible.

 

[TrapperReady]

I use a variety of methods. It usually goes like this...

1) An hour or more before first light, I run my climber up a tree.
2) I sit in said tree not seeing deer until can't feel my hands and toes any longer.
3) I stay up in the tree a while longer.
4) I run the climber down the tree.
5) Then I wander around "stalking" until I'm warmed up. I still don't see deer.
6) After a few hours of this, I decide to get back up in either the original tree or another one for the last couple hours of legal shooting time.
7) Run climber up tree.
8) Slowly freeze (although not normally as bad as in the morning), while still not seeing deer.
9) When I can no longer see the base of the neighboring trees, I run the climber down, pack everything up by feel and head back to the car.
10) ... while not seeing deer.

Yeah, that's a typical deer hunting day. Then, every once in a while, a deer shows up within range and messes up the plan.

 

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