Only ‘true southerners’ agree with you Fred? I sincerely hope that is not your position.
I am well aware of the unethical practice of hunting deer with dogs and I do indeed have a clue about it, as I have been a witness to it, in one of my family member’s club. It is no more sporting than dog or cock fighting is sporting, and in my opinion, it is equally as unethical…particularly in our time period.
I am also witness to the unethical treatment of dogs that is rampant in the supposedly honorable tradition of dog hunting. Most ‘true southerners’ are witness to it also when thay see abandoned and starving dogs with no veterinary care abandoned and wondering on any given rural road in the fall, and especially after deer season. Perhaps you’ll acknowledge it when dog hunting is dealt with and all these ‘cared for’ dogs are turned out to fend for themselves when they are no longer useful to the honorable traditional southern men who cage them up when they’re not chasing deer for them.
Or maybe you don’t notice the sudden increase in wandering strays at the end of every deer season?
“Let’s be honest. If you read the New Testament, you wouldn’t be Catholic.”…SkinneeJ
The only trouble I have with dog hunting is SORRY AZZ hunters. By Sorry AZZ, I mean the guys that take a collar off a dog that doesn’t hunt as well as they think it should. They then drive off and leave it in the woods. You can always tell when it is deer season in the state. Just drive up any interstate and count the dead dogs on the side of the road! They come out of the woods to eat road kill to keep from starving, after their owner left them. My 2 cents!
If all doggers could learn to behave like Middleton Hunt Club,then we would have something.Enough documentation from concerned/pissed off neighbors is finally working by hitting doggers in the pocket.Several big lawsuits against timber companies have just about shut down leasing to them.
Middleton is pure tradition with ties,jackets,horses,and hounds.Those members know they have something special,and they work hard to keep it going.Others,I cant say the same,and they are some of the lowest forms of life.
Personally I like to hear the hounds in a good race,knowing they are chasing deer constantly over my fence and into my property.
Although there are some dog hunters out there who are disrespectful assholes, it is unfair to think of all dog hunters as the same, just like it would be unfair for one to say just because they met some still hunters that were azzholes, that they all are or to say all catholics are like Chris Caudle… Dog hunting is going away simply because large tracks tracts</font id=“green”> of land are slowly disappearing to development, but Still hunting is close behind… Hunters are the endangered species…
Thanks Flyinghigh, next time, can you proofread before I post?
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… Dog hunting is going away simply because large tracks of land are slowly disappearing to development, but Still hunting is close behind… Hunters are the endangered …
You could not be more wrong here. Dog hunting is going away in SC because the majority of people who hunt deer with dogs are unethical, disrespectful, and remarkably disrespectful to the dogs they use to hunt. This not the exception to the rule…it is the rule, and Middleton is the exception.
Don’t believe me? Call your representative and see what they are hearing from landowners, or call Sen. Chip Campsen, chair of. Game and Forestry committee.
It is a matter of time, and it is not because the majority of dog hunters are the gentlemen and sportsmen they fancy themselves to be.
“Let’s be honest. If you read the New Testament, you wouldn’t be Catholic.”…SkinneeJ
You can’t replace that feeling of standing on the white rock rd first thing in the morning waiting for them to release the hounds. You hear over the radio that they released the dogs and you start to here the faint sound of barking . As the barking gets louder and closer your heartbeat speeds up, your hands get sweaty in attecipation of that buck you know the dogs are chasing. “Will he come my way” you think to yourself. Just then, he bust out of the woods, crosses 20 feet from you and is gone in a flash. You missed your chance. He is gone in a flash. He was like lightning.
Nothing says getting back to nature and enjoying the beauty of the woods like standing on the side of the road with a radio waiting for ‘the announcement’ and the barking dogs. They used to do that at Kmart with the blue light special, but even those people realized what they were a part of.
“Let’s be honest. If you read the New Testament, you wouldn’t be Catholic.”…SkinneeJ
Chris Caudle must be another yankee transplant. I’ve run dogs for thirty years and I have no plans to stop. It’s a great tradition, and any true Southerner recognizes that.
Chris Caudle must be another yankee transplant. I’ve run dogs for thirty years and I have no plans to stop. It’s a great tradition, and any true Southerner recognizes that.
why do you think he is a yankee transplant?what he said was absolutely true.
Chris Caudle must be another yankee transplant. I’ve run dogs for thirty years and I have no plans to stop. It’s a great tradition, and any true Southerner recognizes that.
Now let’s not insult the Yankees… Don’t know where he is from, but just another liberal dumb azz running his trap… Hiding behind a keyboard at that… A useless POS and a catholic embarrassment!!!
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Chris Caudle must be another yankee transplant. I’ve run dogs for thirty years and I have no plans to stop. It’s a great tradition, and any true Southerner recognizes that.
why do you think he is a yankee transplant?what he said was absolutely true.
Nothing says getting back to nature and enjoying the beauty of the woods like standing on the side of the road with a radio waiting for ‘the announcement’ and the barking dogs. They used to do that at Kmart with the blue light special, but even those people realized what they were a part of.
“Let’s be honest. If you read the New Testament, you wouldn’t be Catholic.”…SkinneeJ
You assume too much. I’ve never run dogs standing on a road, when I do hunt with dogs I stay away from all county roads as a lot of dog hunters do. You think you know all about dog hunting, but you don’t.
I don’t get the correlation to the “blue light” special?
… Dog hunting is going away simply because large tracks of land are slowly disappearing to development, but Still hunting is close behind… Hunters are the endangered …
You could not be more wrong here. Dog hunting is going away in SC because the majority of people who hunt deer with dogs are unethical, disrespectful, and remarkably disrespectful to the dogs they use to hunt. This not the exception to the rule…it is the rule, and Middleton is the exception.</font id=“red”>
Don’t believe me? Call your representative and see what they are hearing from landowners, or call Sen. Chip Campsen, chair of. Game and Forestry committee.
It is a matter of time, and it is not because the majority of dog hunters are the gentlemen and sportsmen they fancy themselves to be.
“Let’s be honest. If you read the New Testament, you wouldn’t be Catholic.”…SkinneeJ
Dude, you are really full of your self. I take it you must be young, never hunted much, or new to the lowcountry. Pitviper is spot on. Back in the day the Rural country side was rural and owned by only a few family’s and when you had a hunt everyone was invited and the meat was shared. Land owners were told about running dogs and pretty much all the farmers enjoyed the heck out of it as most hated deer due to them destroying crops. Not as many farms today and as the old folks are dying out the land is getting split in many directions. Now you have a small group of hunters trying to run dogs on 100 acre tracts.
I only know my personal experience. Dog hunters did stand on road, many sitting on tailgate. They certainly surrounded my property and put dogs on one side and waited on the other side. They were basically hunting my prop without setting foot on it.
I consider dog hunting. shooting, not hunting. Same thing with doves.
However, I could care less if that is what they do on their land. It is when they interfere with my land that creates the reason why dog hunting is coming to an end.
Hunting, fishing, and poker are my sports. Work when necessary.
