Deer Dogging


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Collars or no collars? If they have collars, I'd get down and grab em, take em back to the owners, if not, then I know what I'd do here, but your laws sound like there different. Probably did the best thing by just leaving them alone.

even if a dog has a collar if they're out running around many times they just run away bark and keep their distance. you can't get close enough to grab them. i know i've tried.

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Well this is exactly the way I would expect this topic to go lol from mid west and the north are against it. And the southerners are 100% for it. Well just to put input in. I'm from the Virginia and deer dogging is very big here too. I manage and run my own hounds as well as the president of my hunting club. I wouldn't trade dog season for any other type of hunting out there. It is pure adrenalin and nothing compares to it. I understand you others with your view on fair kill but you can't knock it untill you've tried it. And whether y'all would admit it or not, your heart would be pounding seeing some of the chases. I had a fella who worked with me from Minnesota that was totally against it, I bet him he would love it and finally after buggin him enough he went. To get the point.... He now owns 12 walkers and lives and breathes dog season. Not all will feel the same I'm sure but it's just something amazing for the ones that have grown up with it. I have killed 11 massive mountable bucks in front of dogs since I have been doing it so it pays off as well as my still hunting has. My answer to everyone... Do what you love with hunting and respect others who do the same, whether it's the same way you do it or not. Lets keep the brotherhood of hunting together and respect all who keep that tradition alive, because eventually there will be a time whether its our generation or the next or a few down the line where that tradition will be no more ...

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Collars or no collars? If they have collars, I'd get down and grab em, take em back to the owners, if not, then I know what I'd do here, but your laws sound like there different. Probably did the best thing by just leaving them alone.

They both had collars. Not sure who they belong to. But I sure would like to just tie them up along the fence till I'm done for the night and then turn them loose. It's sure getting old. Who knows how many times they're running around a day during the week when I'm not around. I'm not one to shoot or harm a dog that's not doing harm to me or my dogs. I would beat my dog if he ran a deer. And I have before. He knows better than that now.

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Why search and dig up a five year old thread I have no idea. Dog hunting legal in MS, but restricted to a couple of times during gun season. It is a lot of fun being on a good hunt, no doubt, but few of them down here do it responsibly and make attempts to catch their dogs at the property lines. They are surely becoming more and more in the minority each year, but still a large group overall. I have to deal with our neighbor's hounds every year a time or two at our lease, big PITA to catch a dog then have all that stink on you. I make one call to the owner, and he better come quickly.

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Well this is exactly the way I would expect this topic to go lol from mid west and the north are against it. And the southerners are 100% for it. Well just to put input in. I'm from the Virginia and deer dogging is very big here too. I manage and run my own hounds as well as the president of my hunting club. I wouldn't trade dog season for any other type of hunting out there. It is pure adrenalin and nothing compares to it. I understand you others with your view on fair kill but you can't knock it untill you've tried it. And whether y'all would admit it or not, your heart would be pounding seeing some of the chases. I had a fella who worked with me from Minnesota that was totally against it, I bet him he would love it and finally after buggin him enough he went. To get the point.... He now owns 12 walkers and lives and breathes dog season. Not all will feel the same I'm sure but it's just something amazing for the ones that have grown up with it. I have killed 11 massive mountable bucks in front of dogs since I have been doing it so it pays off as well as my still hunting has. My answer to everyone... Do what you love with hunting and respect others who do the same, whether it's the same way you do it or not. Lets keep the brotherhood of hunting together and respect all who keep that tradition alive, because eventually there will be a time whether its our generation or the next or a few down the line where that tradition will be no more ...

So question, do you think it's funner than coon hunting? Again, have you ever climbed up a big oak tree with a 22 revolver trying to kick a coon out? I'm sure you've read Where the Red Firn Grows?

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I actually love coon hunting as well. I do like deer dogging more but coon hunting Is a different kind of excitement and adventure in my opinion. My cousin is all big into that tournament coon hunting dog stuff so we go quite often and yes I've climbed a few of those oak trees u speak of. In my experience driving dogs for deer and chasing after coon dogs is equal amount of work, I'm just tired after doing them.

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I don't know, someone commented on it, so I chimed in.

I'll chim in a bit then too abrown. Tried it with deer back when I was in my teens ~40 years ago. Didn't care for it at all for a number of reasons and I'm not going to write a book explaining why. Ocassionally some of our neighbors dogs here in MS get on us. Major league bummer when it happens during the rut. Even more of a bummer when it happens during that part of the season when it's illegal to run dogs. Yep...that's happened a few times. With the AR's we have here in MS now, there's probably some illegal bucks killed when a blue flame is coming out the south end of a north bound buck running from dogs.

Also went hunting pigs with dogs once. Once was enough! Not for me either. That's WAY more work than fun especially with these Russians down here. Russians will generally run in one direction a LONG way. There's no way anyone can keep their hog dogs on their own property down here unless maybe you have 20,000 ac. to hunt...and that's just maybe. One friend of mine does it every year in Feb. He's had to find their dogs on our place several times and his place is over 5 miles away from ours as the crow flys. I'm told feral hogs will usually run in circles. Squirrel hunting with dogs is fun but haven't done it since my younger days. Never coon hunted with dogs.

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