Shooting the Rabbit in front of YOUR Dog

Ricko · Post by **Ricko** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:19 pm

Here's a question for consideration. Have you ever been out hunting, you've got a rabbit going, and now you're waiting for the rabbit to make it's circle, and all of a sudden you hear a POW! Some other hunters entered the woods or swamp from the opposite side and one of them shoots the rabbit that your dog was running? Now what did ya do??????

merv · Post by **merv** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:27 pm

I would go over and talk to them. For one you dont want your dog getting shot and you dont know them guys from adam. Then I would get my dog and just leave. If someone is dumb enough to shoot a rabbit that someone elses dog is running then I wouldnt want to be around them at all.

warddog · Post by **warddog** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:06 pm

If it was a 22 they were shooting, I'd gather my dogs and run outta there.

MIKE · Post by **MIKE** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:08 pm

BUNNYBUSTER

Robert W. Mccoy Jr · Post by **Robert W. Mccoy Jr** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:15 pm

This has happend to me on state land several times.

The only thing you can do is get your dogs and move on.

Jaz · Post by **Jaz** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:06 pm

There probably would be a fight or at the very least some harsh words. No body invited them and even on public land they should have not even attempted to come into the area. Its first come first serve! there is no excuse it not only a matter of safty but also of hunting ethics! I have had someone let there dog in on my running before and me and the boys use radios and we scrambled to find the owner and I caught the dog and put It on my lead and brought the dog to him. He said that he didn't hear our dogs ( which is impossable since they were only 100 yds from his truck) and asked to join. I told him to beat it and didn't want his dog to drag mine off on a deer or mess up our running. I than told him if he just asked he could have hunted with us but still would have to keep his dog in the truck. I told him to go up the road a mile ( the spot we were going to move to next) and he left. not more than an hour his dog was back in my pack so we picked up our dogs. his dog was out there playing hit and miss with the hare. we all went back out in the woods and waited for him. he never showed up. we drove up the road and there he was about 400 yards up the road sitting in his truck drinking a beer. we all stopped to have a word. He had the nerve to tell me (behind a half rolled down window) that it was not posted and his buddy was out there hunting but he wouldn't go back out because we had the spot first and were rite for being mad. we stayed and talked with him and he turned out to be an ok guy. His friend that was out there was a real jerk and was some one we knew and was a dog thief that got into my buddies kennel and took his dog a few year before. He was a well known local man who was also finaly caught jacking deer that year and wasnt even licenced. My buddy( the one who had his dog stolen) had a cell phone and phoned the warden as we drove off laughing hard that he finaly got revenge on that guy. It was a good thing he didnt poke his head out of the brush when my buddy was there!! It is just an unwritten rule that you dont do something like that. Poeple who dont know the beagling game think its like deer hunting where it is exceptable to be in the same woods hunting. That is the closest thing that happened to me like that.
People should know that beagles dont run wild and run rabbits there is people in the woods that are hunting over this dog. It is just ethics!