Hunting deer with dogs in Georgia --- a tutorial

Fishin Rod

001 wrote: »

I swore I remember a post just like this a few years ago.

And just like "A Land Remembered", it is worth reading AGAIN....... Good job Magee, yankee skinnin' and all. But why didn't you take the big dawg, he was already pointing....

magot

001 wrote: »

I swore I remember a post just like this a few years ago.

Indeed you did, Zip, zip, uno. It is in archive heaven now. The original was in response to a forum argument between dog hunters and non-dog hunters. I resurrected it because another argument recently broke out.

Maybe I should come up with something like, "To corn, or not to corn? Hunting the wiley sambar."

publichunter

U should post these in the hunting section....most of those dudes could use a good laugh

magot

publichunter wrote: »

U should post these in the hunting section....most of those dudes could use a good laugh

Thanks, PH. But I think that's dis-legal.

ANUMBER1

Nice thread Magot, good thing it wasn't a big dark deer or the ACLU be all over ya!

flhunter65

Thank you for posting sir. I enjoyed reading it.

Fly Hooker

We were just talking about this thread during Rusty's Bash and it needed a new life for folks that do not know how to hunt Georgia!!

One of the funniest post I have ever seen. :grin

Good job!!!

MACD

Kygentleman wrote: »

just not the dog

Deer hunting with a mutt is metro.

Fly Hooker

Next year he is going to use the cat.........Its hard to train different hunting critters but Magot has it under control!!! :grin

WaterEngineer

nuclearfishn wrote: »

Using the Glenn Beck book for TP?

No, but anything that was written "by" BHO, Fat Al Gore or Billary will suffice for that duty.

Now back to the OP - nice post - I am sure you taught some young fellers a thing or five.

micci_man

I remember this thread. Classic!!! :beer

"beat the dog" :rotflmao

T-Daddy

As a kid growing up in Waycross we used to hunt deer with dogs in the swamps off the Altamaha river near Ludowici. It is an exciting way to do it. To hear the dogs tune change when they got close on the trail, the way their barking and howling changed when they got close to a deer, and then they are coming closer and closer to your position, and then all of a sudden they are on you and the deer erupts from the thick and you have a brief second or two to make the shot. We ran beagles and hunted with shotguns. Every now and then the dogs would actually catch a deer and you wouldn't think a sweet beagle had it in them, but they can turn savage!

Fly Hooker

T-Daddy wrote: »

As a kid growing up in Waycross we used to hunt deer with dogs in the swamps off the Altamaha river near Ludowici. It is an exciting way to do it. To hear the dogs tune change when they got close on the trail, the way their barking and howling changed when they got close to a deer, and then they are coming closer and closer to your position, and then all of a sudden they are on you and the deer erupts from the thick and you have a brief second or two to make the shot. We ran beagles and hunted with shotguns. Every now and then the dogs would actually catch a deer and you wouldn't think a sweet beagle had it in them, but they can turn savage!

Yep, grew up in S.C. in a farming community and at the time we had the longest deer season in the states. We used Walkers, and Blue Ticks on huge leases. The sounds of those dogs are something that I will never forget (just as you described).

When I got a little older would rather prefer to still or stalk hunt, I still have my 1960's version of the 870 and 700. We had so many private places (other local farms) to hunt it makes me sad now to think about it. The deer, turkeys, doves, squirrels were very plentiful.

BallaCoiPersici

Good job. And perfect shoot :wink.

Not sure to have understood how you use the dogs. The dog stays with you and he warns you when the deers are around ?

T-Daddy

BallaCoiPersici wrote: »

Good job. And perfect shoot :wink.

Not sure to have understood how you use the dogs. The dog stays with you and he warns you when the deers are around ?

We would have 1 or 2 guys that "ran" the dogs, usually 8-12 hounds. They would start off on one side of a swamp run, on a small dry ridge or hammock and run the dogs through the flooded swamp areas. The hunters lined up on the next dry ridge, sometimes a mile or more away, sometimes closer. The dogs and the runners crossed the swamp, flushing the deer towards the waiting hunters.

BallaCoiPersici

More or less like our "cacciarella" (the wild boar hunting).

http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?181446-Last-boars-of-the-season-(at-least-for-me)&p=2279316&viewfull=1#post2279316

Thanks for the explanation.

Fly Hooker

BallaCoiPersici wrote: »

More or less like our "cacciarella" (the wild boar hunting).

http://forums.floridasportsman.com/showthread.php?181446-Last-boars-of-the-season-(at-least-for-me)&p=2279316&viewfull=1#post2279316

Thanks for the explanation.

Yes, very similar!!