stagpanther
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I agree--seeing the target helps a lot.Jeff Cooper wrote a few times that a scope doesn't help you shoot, it helps you see
I agree--seeing the target helps a lot.Jeff Cooper wrote a few times that a scope doesn't help you shoot, it helps you see
Isn't shooting someone's dog risky if that dog is not attacking you or someone else?
I wouldn't have a mean dog; and I wouldn't have a dog that I had to chain up. My property is fenced in, and my Lab runs free. She barks at everyone who walks down the street; but she just wants attention. Once someone reaches over the fence & pets her, she's good to go. Some grandma was walking with a toddler & the kid stuck her arm through the chain link fence. The dog gave her arm a serious slurping; saliva flying everywhere. The grandma nearly had a stroke. I take her to the range & she loves to watch the ducks at the dam. I haven't taken her hunting; but I know she has the instinct to drag back whatever I shoot. At the range, she once brought one of the ducks to me; alive & well, & not a scratch; but it had to be day that the duck will tell it's grandchildren about. I would say, the very best hunting dog I ever had, as far as beating the brush, was my Jack Russell. If he went in, you knew a bird or rabbit was coming out. His ears had splits from being caught on brush chasing out game. I often carried him in the game pocket of my hunting vest. Maybe he weighed 12 or 14 pounds.Absolutely;
Confrontation in such matters often go hay wire or sideways in a heart beat. Than again country folks differ from towns folk. With country folks: Neighborly Rules are observed. #1._ Best their dog/s not be seen chasing deer on another's property in the Spring or especially during State wide deer hunting season. Given that the mutts owner was so informed of his dogs behaviour shortly before hand.
That mutt's disorder be it instinctive_ accidental release_ broken chain_ whatever? Unlike a deer. Seldom
did a observed chasing dog for a second or third time deserve a "Go free Pass" in the neighborhood where I was raised.
Game Wardens and Peace Officers would have a difference of opinion Oh I'm sure. But Neighborly Rules are still rules whether agreed to or not._ So to speak__ ["know'ed & "Set in stone."]
It's easy to go off on tangents. JimNo. More. Dogs.