re: It's time to ban dog deer hunting

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But it would damn sure get rid of most of the problem

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It sounds to me like most of the problem involves people who are already breaking laws.

Comparing dog hunting to spot lighting is comparing apples to diesel trucks.

If a game warden catches you in a field at night with a q-beam, a loaded rifle, and a dead deer, that's gonna be pretty tough to get out of.

However, if a game warden catches you in the woods with a rifle while some stray dogs are running around, he's not going to be able to do much. If he can do anything to that guy, than technically he can also do something to you for being in the woods while stray dogs are running around, whether you put them there or not.

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Perfect analogy and spot on

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It's a horrible analogy. Getting away with running dogs would be incredibly easy. Getting away with spotlighting is not.

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Does banning night hunting get rid of all the thugs who ride fields all night with spotlights? No. But it makes it pretty damn difficult for those that choose to break the law and gives stiff enough consequences that the vast majority of people are deterred by the law. Banning dog hunting would do the same, making my hunt being ruined by dogs every weekend the exception rather than the norm.

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That's a bad analogy, and incorrect. Spotlighting is a way bigger problem where I'm from than running dogs could ever hope to be. You're getting real close to the 'let's ban all guns so we won't have as much crime' train of thought.

Still better than the present situation.

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Would welcome the opportunity to worry about hunters with non collared dogs hunting in our area



You sure about that? You might start having dogs during bow season.

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That's interesting. Had to put down the first stray this year sometime during the last week of September. (Can't remember now exactly the day, but it was on a weekday before the granddaughters got off the school bus.) Guess when bow season opened up here this year? October 6

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I simply disagree we would dealing with it for longer periods of time

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I can respect that, but I think you have a case of wishful thinking.

This is one of those things where the ethical dog hunters had best propose a solution before the dumbasses kneejerk to the legislature for a ban.

I think a smart solution would be somehow, if you intend to hunt with a dog, you must mark it both visually and with an RFID tag, possibly registered with Wildlife and Fisheries. That way you can't say that's not your dog and you can only hunt with a registered dog.

This would do a couple of things. One, you could come up with a system like the guy was talking about earlier where if your dogs get caught on someone elses land, you get a progressive fine if it's turned in to law enforcement. And TWO, the hunter could have a measure of safety for both his dog and show he's trying to comply with the law as an ethical hunter.

No that wouldn't solve it. But if they got fined every time their dog got caught by someone other than them with that getting progressively worse every time, I'm thinking they'd find a place where that's not as likely to happen.

Because if this thread is any indication, the whole thing is going to be banned soon. We all hunt and this many people want it gone, and you know what the liberals want, that's it, it's toast.

Unfortunately, dog hunters are not normally the type to be proactive about this shite. Say what you will, but the view of them mostly being outlaws... that's earned.

Of course I can sympathize with the amount of bullshite you have to deal with. It's just that they will continue to be a pain in your arse no matter what you do.

I say this pretty often in response to lots of different things, the only effective solution is to outlaw being stupid.