Addicting
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I wonder, if I shoot the woodchuck eating all my beans and it dies on the neighbors property, would I care? Better put it on YouTube so everyone can tell me their options.
This is what's wrong with hunting.
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Honestly, didn't care either way with that decision. It was the subsequent behavior that was annoying, so I decided to criticize him just to see how he'd respond, and he played right into it. A professional would have reacted differently.
noharleyyet
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I do get what you're saying justin but it's called pig rasslin' for a reason...
I echo what everyone was saying here, but I have a question. Maybe I missed it, but do we know that the fence was the property line? Don't dogpile me for defending the guy as I am not on his side in any way, but if that wasn't the property line then maybe we all assumed wrong. If it was, just keeping piling on him!
leec270
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Thanks @devon deer for tagging me in,
I spend a lot of time travelling too and from the continent (Germany) to learn and work my dog, I also travel many many miles here on the UK to help other hunters if required.
I am one of only a handful of dog handlers with a qualified tracking dog (European recognised tracking tests)in England we have a big problem with boundary’s, you are on a track and you have blood for hair at the fence and without permission legally I can not cross. Last year 3 tracks all over 3km and I had to stop.
Now I don’t know how things go on the US, but if a beast crosses a fence wounded the first thing I would do is find the land owner and at least notify them of the situation, you never know you luck they might give you permission to continue your search.
The pictures below are from a young red stag shot close to a boundary fence, the hunter went for a neck shot and the bullet hit the throat, the animal ran with the herd almost 2km we tracked the next morning, once shot the animal crossed and the hunter gained permission for us to cross and start the search, one of the very few times this has happened!
In my opinion you don’t shoot 2 animals if you can’t find the first.
I spend a lot of time travelling too and from the continent (Germany) to learn and work my dog, I also travel many many miles here on the UK to help other hunters if required.
I am one of only a handful of dog handlers with a qualified tracking dog (European recognised tracking tests)in England we have a big problem with boundary’s, you are on a track and you have blood for hair at the fence and without permission legally I can not cross. Last year 3 tracks all over 3km and I had to stop.
Now I don’t know how things go on the US, but if a beast crosses a fence wounded the first thing I would do is find the land owner and at least notify them of the situation, you never know you luck they might give you permission to continue your search.
The pictures below are from a young red stag shot close to a boundary fence, the hunter went for a neck shot and the bullet hit the throat, the animal ran with the herd almost 2km we tracked the next morning, once shot the animal crossed and the hunter gained permission for us to cross and start the search, one of the very few times this has happened!
In my opinion you don’t shoot 2 animals if you can’t find the first.
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When I get a call for my dogs, it's become my policy that the hunter first secure permission from neighboring properties, and if the animal is shot near a border, depending on property size, I may ask that neighbors beyond neighbors be contacted. In Texas, where we track off leash I feel it's a necessity, I have a friend who had a really nice dog killed by a neighboring deer hunter...and that's just not something I'm willing to risk. I turn a lot of calls down on some of these really small tracks if significant permission can't be obtained before hand.
