Deer Hunting with dogs is tradition*

It’s not classless.

It’s simply done these days by many who in truth don’t have enough ground to use the method.

I’ve seldom hunted with a gun for decades now, but I still get excited when I hear dogs running deer.

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and I can remember him letting his dogs out right on someone else's posted property line... and explaining that it wasn't his fault those dogs couldn't read.

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Sorry. I know that is wrong but still funny.

Deer hunting with dogs is trashy

The owner being able to control the dogs is an illusion. When they cross the property line and run wild on your land, the own has to walk all over to retrieve them and gives some half arse apology then goes about his merry day, knowing that it wasn’t the first time and won’t be the last

I guarantee you my club is classier than you. It’s also not that hard to keep dogs on our property. Technology has come a long way. Apparently there are still outlaws. Who knew? It sounds like you have shitty neighbors. That land you bought or lease in the sticks was cheap because of assholes. People still shoot deer at night. Should we outlaw lights?

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wish they would outlaW it

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Well, you'll get your wish soon enough. It's dying off fast. My kids likely won't ever get to do it. Yall who have never experienced a big buck being killed on a good dog hunt have missed out. It was a team effort and everybody felt like they had a part of the big buck getting got. It was damn fun. Hunting was better back then.

I don't think there's anything inherently classless about it, but as practiced it usually is.

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Calling it classless is insulting my ancestors who were very well educated, war veterans, and otherwise good people.

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People are calling it what it is. You’re issue shouldn’t be with the people who thinks it trashy, but the individual that have made your ancestor’s practice a trashy one.

My 5 and 2 year old get to hunt same spot I grew up dog hunting. Their kids will be a different story. It is a dying breed. Florida seems to have done a good job with regulating it though. The dogs have to be registered, etc. To maintain a lease you also have to be by the book. It’s changed a lot since I was a kid. People behaved like you are bitching about. They would dump dogs out and shoot deer on the side of the road. That doesn’t happen around here anymore. It boils down to respect. You either respect your neighbors or don’t.

Your grandfathers were probably hunting with dogs long before you were dumping corn on the ground and naming bucks.

That being said, we moved from big dogs to Beagles 20 years ago to do our best to keep dogs off neighboring property. Does it still happen, yes but rarely. Everyone I know runs with tracking collars now to make sure we can get in front of them to cut them off. Luckily we hunt in an area where most neighbors are not Johnny-come-lately hunters and don’t give us too much shite.

One more thing to consider for you anti-dog hunters, if the dogs are running a deer and cross your property, the deer wasn’t “your” deer to begin with. And they’re not running wild, they’re trailing 1 deer not all the deer on your property. Deer generally run in big circles so he’ll probably wind up back on their land eventually.