re: FYI for the few dog hunters left

Well, glad I can sleep tonight knowing the OB thinks I live my life to run high powered walker hounds across land I don’t have rights to infront of people who don’t want me there and yell “frick y’all these is my pappys deer” and run every deer out of the parish never to be seen again.

Where the hell do y’all find these people? I’ve hunted several different areas in my life and have never heard a first hand account of any of this kind of shite happening until I found the internet.

You'll be waiting a while. I hunt for meat, not trophies.

There's your first up vote ,
cuz I reckon I is.

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I’ve hunted several different areas in my life and have never heard a first hand account of any of this kind of shite happening until I found the internet.

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I’ve been running dogs since 1989 and never have hunted on public land or been confronted by a hunter who our dogs have run in their property.

I’m sorry all you fellas have had bad experiences with dog hunters, but I’ve never experienced it.

I’ve also hunted for 30 years in Lincoln Parish and have never ever had dogs come across our property while still hunting.

For two days after Thanksgiving I had to get down from a stand on my land to retrieve dogs that the owners couldn't get onto my land to collect. Another family friend had to end their hunt the same way while on our land. Dog owners give other hunters a bad name but simply don't care about trespassing while chasing their dogs across other people's property. It's not only maddening but sad that these people could give two craps about someone else hunting..on their own land.

Personally, I’m cool with having less deer and running dogs. Everybody hunting together was a whole lot more fun than everybody doing their own thing. It really kinda sucks now, when somebody killed a deer on a dog hunt that you were in you felt like a part of it. We had pictures of deer with 20 people in them. You never see that any more, because the extent of the group effort in it is the work on the property before the season.

I don’t buy that it affects the deer herd in any appreciable way, at least how we did it. It was usually 4-6 dogs far as I can remember, sometimes 8 if it was a big hunt. We still killed plenty deer still hunting and took tons of trail camera pictures at night like we still do. We had some super shitty years and some good years. This year we’re having a bad year and i think it’s been 6 years since we’ve turned a dog loose. Water level in the swamp has always had a far bigger influence on our luck than anything we’ve done.

Maybe so. I don’t enjoy still hunting anywhere near as much as hunting with dogs. Nowhere remotely close. I do it because that’s the only way I can hunt them now, but it’s not even in the same league of fun.

And, I don’t think it really affects anything. If the red dirt people are dumping 50 hounds a day out and leaving them in the woods then yea I guess I can see that being an issue. A handful of dogs 2 days a week for something like 6 weeks with damn near all of them coming out the woods every day after the hunt? No way.

Exactly, we run 3-4 dogs at a time and we don't make another drive until those 3-4 are caught and put in the box and you shoot a doe when it isn't legal in front of my dogs and you don't come back!! All this crap about killing the herd out with dogs is just that crap! On a good day we would kill 2-3 bucks most days none with 10-12 standers. Let me go and put those same 10-12 in a tree and let's see what we can kill. We have had a camp in Winn parish for about 10 years or so and I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt we would kill more deer in the first two weekends still hunting every year than we ever did running dogs all year.
The forestry in Winn doesn't have anywhere close to the deer herd it had 3-4 years ago and we haven't run a dog there in 4 years but every morning and every evening you will hear 15-30 rifle shots! All from these little corn hunting clubs. SC if you have a camp up there like you say you do then you know I'm telling the truth!

Years ago I hunted next to a lease that allowed dog hunting. Problem was never the dogs. It was their owners who ride though your food plot while you’re on the stand.

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fine. I bet you like hunting behind a high fence like busbice with the attitude you have.

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Ya see, this is why you can’t have a conversation with idiots.