Exactly right!!! Great Post

Mr. Wallace, after 10 years of dogs being released from the road onto our posted property, our electric fence being manipulated so the dogs could get under it or the fence getting cut by the hunters( I set up cameras that showed the activities) we spent 18,000.00 to have a mesh wire fence put up. This year the first year after we fenced around 30 acres the hunters went to the wooded end of the property and released the dogs again on posted property, and they still ended up at the barn endangering us, the stock and destroying the hunt of the tree stand hunters that we rent the property to each year. If you think that we should bear the cost of fencing our property because you want to not take responsibility for where the dogs go, you are wrong. You need to bear the responsibility of hunting not poaching. Joyce Miller

It seems to me that you have a cultural issue as well in your area if you have pictures of the criminals invading your land have you taken legal action to help in stopping those at fault, or are you just typing a fairy tale story on a dog hunting forum hoping someone will respond in a rude and unprofessional way so you can feel better about your self and your ideas on dog hunting. I hope you can understand my stand point on your comments while much of what you say could very well happen it is in my experience that much of these types of stories are often exaggerated or made up completely to paint a picture to help sway opinions of others in to thinking in the way of the one telling the story. Now if you truly have these issues and can provide the proof I would be interested in see it and I myself would do what ever I could to help solve the issue you are having with hound hunters in your area because that is not the actions we promote out of our fellow hunters.



Thanks,
Bobby Newman

What happen to the land of the free. This day in time, it's everything a average person does is wrong in somebody else's eyes. You cant even turn on the tv, radio or internet because it's always something negative about some peoples way of life or enjoyment in life. I love the outdoors, hunting, fishing and all sports. I have been a houndsmen also. It's know telling the field trials I have ran in or judged, also the money I have spent at a benefit field trial for someone that was sick, a benefit for church youth group, on an on. The look on there faces is priceless when a lady sitting over there crying and receives a donated gift from a hound field trial. It's sad to read all the post about hounds on here. The money the houndsmen spend in a year puts a lot of food on the table for someone trying to make a living in life. You know its the same going on with firearms, now it's dogs running thru the woods or across a field. If we keep going down the path we are going the United States is going to have nothing it's ALL going to be gone because we the people aren't as one and trying to work as one to make EVERYBODY happy so life would be better so we can enjoy what the good lord has gave us. There's always a answer and away to make life simple but the people behind the desk needs to step up a find away to make both sides happy so they want take everything away from the tax payer, because it's not the hounds fault. I think all hunting clubs needs to work with the landowner to make them safe and happy so we can enjoy there land and we the houndsmen can still enjoy the hobby for another 100 years and also the landowner work with the houndsmen also but it takes two and IT CAN BE DONE.....

You are right Bryan, the American people this day in time aren't as one like many years ago. I'm a land owner an lease three farm for my crop and there is a local dog running club that have been hunting on my land and they treat me and the land with respect, they know not to drive in the field, if it's wet stay put and don't keep driving back and forth. This is also told at the local outside hound field trial that is done around my farm, respect my land and have fun. Also I'm a big turkey hunter and my nephew love to bow hunt, the clubs know to stay off the land (with hounds) that part of the season because thats what we do for enjoyment. They all do it and I still get my bird for the next thanksgiving and he gets has deer harvest with the bow to, when dog running season comes in they run there game like they want on my land, everything goes as plan. The VLA or land owners needs to work with the dog hunting club to set rules on hunting there land. Really when they turn the hounds out they smell the scent an just run where the game goes, when they loose the scent they stop running and with the knew tracking systems they have today (the money houndsmen spend on the GPS is thousands of dollar to the economy along with feed and etc.) you can retrieve them off your land in 15 minutes an be gone. But anyway hope both sides can come together and work out the problems so they want just take dog running away because that just will be unbelievable.