re: FYI for the few dog hunters left

Doesn’t matter how much land you have. You’d have to own 50 square miles to 100% guarantee that your dogs won’t cross a property line.

The only way to do it is have neighbors who are on board with it or doing it themselves and the reality of it is times aren’t like that any more. People pay money for little squares of land to hunt and get mad when they see dogs chasing deer. It wasn’t like that 20 years ago. I think shooting another mans dog back then was punishable by arse whipping. It was just something that people were raised not to do. Times were different. We started running some low power hounds that were good about staying on our place, and we have a big arse place.

We grew up doing it and I miss those days a whole lot. Our neighbors caught our dogs, we caught theirs, we all killed a few deer. Nobody was hunting on anybody else’s property. The new era of hunters being so boarded up sucks. I blame it on buckmasters and trail cameras but that’s another discussion.

Sure, legally you own land and nobody has the right to be on it but you. Just keep in mind that you’re stomping our tradition that will never come back.

To all the “frick all the dog hunters” crowd, frick off. You don’t know us all. We have generations on generations of history hunting deer with dogs in south Louisiana and it’s ending now. You could at least have a little respect for those here for the end of such a storied tradition.

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t wasn’t until people started getting feeders and trail cameras and box stands that it started to matter

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Have to disagree. Box stands and baiting have been around forever. I’d look more towards the decline in ducks in La. Duck hunting once was where the rich spent their money on high dollar blinds on private property. Now it’s $50/acre hunting leases. Can’t blame a man for wanting to protect his investment and not have the neighbors dogs crossing over

Even more on baiting, dog hunters are notorious for baiting up areas close to property lines to run dogs.

Running a pack of hounds behind deer or having deer drives just doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t see the sport in it.

That dude writes like a 4th grader. Doesn't bode well for the cause imo.

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Does not exist, every one of them will trespass and think it is ok if they are hunting for their dogs from my experiance.

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Kindly go frick your self.
Blanket statements are not accurate. This is equal to a non hunter saying all hunters will take an animal illegally or unethically if given the opportunity.

an attack on any group of hunters not based on science bodes negatively for all of us...

those of you calling the dog hunters trash.... you do realize that there are some guys hunting high fence in the black belt calling you trash too...


it's all relative...



they could get gps collars and train their dogs to come back with e collars... so yes some of it is on them.

but with fewer and fewer people hunting we really shouldn't throw other hunters under the bus.... heck I dislike sky busters nearly as much as poachers...

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Banning dog hunting on public land is a no brained imo.

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There is still a part of the season everywhere that is "with or without dogs", EXCEPT for public federal land. The dog hunters pay the same taxes and license fees as the people that still hunt, and should have the same hunting privileges as everyone.

The whole ban issue is about Kisatchie National Forest, not private property. There are still some clubs that run dogs across the state, but my group doesn't love it enough to go join a club with a bunch of strangers.

Again, I wish they'd shut the whole mfer down and gate all the roads to everyone, including the horse trails that the gov't has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. I dgaf if every acre of federal land is inaccessible. Then everyone's rights could be infringed on the same and we could all be happy.

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Again, I wish they'd shut the whole mfer down and gate all the roads to everyone, including the horse trails that the gov't has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on. I dgaf if every acre of federal land is inaccessible. Then everyone's rights could be infringed on the same and we could all be happy

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And this is why dog hunters like yourself are thought poorly of.

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The dog hunters pay the same taxes and license fees as the people that still hunt, and should have the same hunting privileges as everyone.

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Dog hunters are notorious for pushing their "Hunting Privileges" so far beyond the letter and intent of the law, that people are just sick of them.

To a person that gets 2 days off of work out of 7 in a week, then takes maybe 10 days of vacation for hunting season, having some dogs run across their stand, lease, property is infuriating. Those people see all those weekends they spent on plots, scouting, and time value blown up by some person's pack of dogs roaming across their land.

Dog hunters have earned every bit of hate they receive, and then some.

People say, one bad apple can spoil the barrel...well dog hunters seem to be a barrel full of bad apples with one good one in it.

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And this is why dog hunters like yourself are thought poorly of.

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Exactly what about me wanting the same rules to apply to everyone make me a dick?

I was hunting on KNF when hunters took stands in the ditch, and waved to the game warden and cars as they passed by. No one was offended, and no one ever had an accident in 30+ years. Obviously that is not done now, but shooting down the road is one of the false concerns raised to shut it all down. Hunting is done in the woods, and if a still hunter was parked in a pulloff, we'd go to another block to run, as to not disturb him.

If I'm a dick for wanting the fairness to extend to everyone, then so be it.

ETA: We'll just have to agree to disagree. The fight will be over today, and I'll still be here enjoying the OB.
Sorry for being a trashy dick.