Dog hunting in eastern central Georgia is not quite what some of you folks have in mind. Like I said you can't use CB's and you can't hunt from roads. So it's not rednecks tearing around in monster trucks. You can't trespass with dogs and continue hunting the deer.
So only clubs with very large leases have dog hunts and usually only a certain small number a year. The rest of the season is limited to stand and still hunting on these clubs.
They place the hunters in a line in known, assigned locations for safety purposes along one edge of the property-several thousand acres. The dog packs start at the other side and attempt to drive the deer toward the line of hunters. The deer are moving rather rapidly when you spot them, I'm told.
The two clubs I know of that have dog hunts are large acreage, exclusive, and expensive. I don't think their membership is quite the image some of you seem to hold.
Maybe in your states, redneck hunters can use dogs, radios, and trucks to tear up and down the highways and through the woods as they desire. Hope they don't try it here. Our game wardens love writing tickets.
Oh, I knew a guy that tried the jumping on a deer with a knife thingy. He got the deer. Before it bled out it almost got him.
And the claim that the .44 is more "merciful" than a knife. I've seen a pig die from blood loss after being hit with a thrown knife in the lungs. When the knife hit it, it jumped about two feet and then looked around for a while. Then it went to munching acorns again. About three minutes later it died...peacefully. I've shot a pig with a .44 Magnum that hit the same area. It died in about thirty seconds...squealing, convulsing, biting the ground, and flopping like a fish out of water. If you think a bullet in a vital area not instantly fatal is more merciful than a knife wound in like circumstances then you do not know what you are talking about and have obviously never witnessed it.