| Have you ever enjoyed hunting deer with dogs? Did | | | | places here in Maine that are nearly as bad. I know |
| you enjoy the hunting sport? But some time it is not | | | | of one tract of several thousand acres where deer |
| possible to always spot the deer especially in the | | | | are plentiful, but hunters shun it. There is no visibility |
| Southern states. You will come across different | | | | and I often have been forced to crawl on hands and |
| terrains to locate the deer. Sometime to hunt one | | | | knees in order to make any progress. Such places |
| animal we use other animals like dogs for hunting the | | | | are better left as sanctuaries where deer will have a |
| deer. I have no experience of using them for hunting | | | | chance to live and increase. |
| but have seen them in action. But more than the dog | | | | The overflow from these areas would soon provide |
| hunter the foxhunters are considered a good sport. | | | | good hunting in neighboring sections. I believe that it |
| Another poacher of my acquaintance had a deer dog | | | | is better to do this than it is to use dogs to drive the |
| that was deer proof. So much so that the owner | | | | last deer out of the refuge, to be shot by a favored |
| offered a suspicious warden one hundred dollars if he | | | | few. The shooting of deer from trains, airplanes and |
| (the warden) could persuade the dog to chase a | | | | automobiles is illegal in most places, and rightly so. |
| deer. The warden was satisfied and the dog's owner | | | | Aside from the sporting angle, the use of a loaded |
| was perfectly safe in making the offer, but that dog | | | | gun in a confined space can be dangerous to anyone |
| was about the best aid that a poacher could wish. | | | | who may be with the shooter. |
| Healthy deer were perfectly safe from him. I saw a | | | | Accidents can happen and it is senseless to expose |
| deer run within a hundred feet of the dog and he | | | | any one to any unnecessary risks. From a sporting |
| never even looked at the deer. It was different | | | | standpoint, riding along a road with a gun stuck out |
| when his master used his gun. The dog would be off | | | | of the window of an automobile and shooting any |
| at the sound of the shot and, if the deer had been | | | | deer that might be seen, is about as sporting as |
| wounded and not killed, he would chase, catch and | | | | shooting fish in a barrel. Deer have not acquired a |
| hold the animal until the man could approach and | | | | fear of automobiles and will often feed in full view of |
| make the kill. | | | | a highway, to the delight of nature lovers. To take |
| Most of the legal deer hunting in which dogs are used | | | | advantage of the deer's lack of fear is, definitely, not |
| is done in some of the Southern States-in areas | | | | sporting. |
| where there are large private estates. It seems to | | | | Even though it is great fun to hunt the deer, I |
| be more a "gentleman's sport" than one the common | | | | believe that the more you take care in hunting the |
| people can enjoy-more a holdover of the English | | | | better you care safe from any unlawful or accidents. |
| nobility or southern aristocracy idea than a sport of | | | | Unfearful nature of deer can sometime be a delight |
| American democracy. | | | | to the nature's lovers and they are dangerous as well |
| The excuse is that the deer are in such inaccessible | | | | when you travel on the highways. There are some |
| places that the use of dogs is necessary in order to | | | | good dogs that could be of good help when going |
| have any success at all. I know that there are many | | | | for hunting deer. And there some dogs again that |
| places in the South which I would not want to enter | | | | does not like to hunt for deer. They are called deer |
| and where it would be almost impossible to see a | | | | proof. Deer hunting could earn you a good amount of |
| deer, let alone to shoot one, but we have a few | | | | money as well if you know how to trade it. |