Most dog leases are on timber property. I would say 50% or better of shots were not down a road, but across clear cuts when they run from head to head. Experienced dog hunters space trucks out appropriatley and will not shoot if they think it's dangerous. A lot of times the deer will step into the edge of the road and stop giving you a standing target, and you are shooting at an angle instead of laying a bullet out down the middle of a road. Dog hunting is very safe when everyone pays attention. I did it from the time I was 4 until about the age of 30-32 and we never had an accident. Only accident we ever had was when a kid that honestly needed to be on meds grabbed the trigger on his dads truck and shot the tranny out
Dog hunting is definitely a much faster paced style of doing things. Its sorta like watching a golf tournament and then turning on a hockey game
We routinely have shots up to 200 yds or more on straight main grade roads or clear cuts so a rifle is crucial. We don't hunt like elsewhere in the South with dropped-off standers/buckshot/stay in 1 position/etc. That's the old fashioned way that terribly sucks to me.
Time to break out the bar 308 I think :chainNacho- I've shot half a box of bullets from my 300wsm and only killed 2. It's an art shooting in a fast paced scenario.
Have to agree with you there bro. I hunted with my cousins years back for a weekend in their lease in GA and that's the way they rolled up there. I got put out and was told to stay put until I got picked up. I was out of the races the entire weekend. I got back to my lease in Fla(was lafayette HC at the time) as fast as my truck could take me, and I killed 2 in 2 days
We routinely have shots up to 200 yds or more on straight main grade roads or clear cuts so a rifle is crucial. We don't hunt like elsewhere in the South with dropped-off standers/buckshot/stay in 1 position/etc. That's the old fashioned way that terribly sucks to me.
Time to break out the bar 308 I think :chainNacho- I've shot half a box of bullets from my 300wsm and only killed 2. It's an art shooting in a fast paced scenario.
Have to agree with you there bro. I hunted with my cousins years back for a weekend in their lease in GA and that's the way they rolled up there. I got put out and was told to stay put until I got picked up. I was out of the races the entire weekend. I got back to my lease in Fla(was lafayette HC at the time) as fast as my truck could take me, and I killed 2 in 2 days
I guess it all depends upon the club, tract of land hunting and # of guys, trucks and dogs. My first experience hunting over dogs for deer and hogs was similiar, about 20-25 guys on three roads around 200-300 acres, four PU trucks with 2 guys each, and about 12 dogs let out in the middle of the tract. Morning and afternoon drive, sitters only shot like three aminals all day. The guys in the trucks killed about 10-12 deer and about 15 hogs. That was my first and last hunt with them as the guys on the trucks would follow the dogs and get the shots. At the end of the day whoever shot it got it.
I told a friend of mine who hunted another club my story and he said he'd take me with a real dog club on a hunt.
My next 5-6 hunts was with a different club with my buddy, that used a complete different logic and style. They did two drives in the morning and one in the afternoon. They put 30-35 guys on three dirt roads around a much much SMALLER tract of land like 50-75 acres. Two trucks let about 12 dogs out in the middle and the same two trucks patroled the roads for dogs. My buddy told me that once the first dogs barks you had better be ready.... I said to myself, ready for what????
Once that first dog barked, it was game on and you had better be watching your 100 or so yards each way down that road and into the woods in front of you. The animals knew the deal and immediately started slipping and moving out of the area, not being chased, the bark meant danger. That first drive 60% or 20 or so guys killed an animal. The drive only lasted 2 hours and we were picked up and moved for a second drive. Same deal. I killed a doe and hog on the first drive, a 7 PT and two hogs on the second drive and another doe on the third drive. At the end of the day all the kills were cleaned, quartered and distributed to the entire club so everyone got some pork and/or venison. They were a great group of dog hunters and I was invited 4 or 5 more times and had very similiar results everytime. It was as fun as could be. Only shot one deer/hog which was running, all the others were either slipping, trotting and walking or just walking outa the area because they knew the dogs meant "get out".
If I had to sit all day and listen to dogs and not see anything I can do that in my tree lounge and most any WMA surrounded by dog clubs....
if you have a bar in 308, I think you got your bases covered about as well as possible. a set of chaps to protect the wood,maybe. now the way I would do it is get like 50 guys with ar's/30 round mags, put them in a circle app 100 yds diameter, turn a hog loose in the middle and yell "ready aim fire", if anyone is left they get the meat.
