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Post by mrlongbeard on Dec 28, 2007 17:57:56 GMT -4
pick one your out hunting small game and another hunter beagle runs a rabbit close by do you shoot. or another hunters pointer flushes a bird and he flies your way out of their reach do you shoot or let it go.
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Post by zodiakgsps on Dec 28, 2007 22:54:42 GMT -4
If the other hunters pointer flushes the bird, his dog needs to go back for more training on his pointing work!! ;D ;D In that scenerio, I won't shoot, I'm always out with my dogs & if I or my dog didn't bump it up & at least get a stop-to-flush from the dog, I won't shoot. I would instead watch where it lands, providing it lands PAST me & not closer to the other hunter. Then I'll work the dogs towards it. I don't like to shoot birds my dogs haven't had contact with. Most guys (at least I don't) won't chase after one bird, but just keep working the area they're in,(well, unless there aren't many birds...have seen guys run after them come to think of it) maybe then swinging the direction of a flown bird. Phez tend to hit the ground running & you won't usually find them where they went down anyway.
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Post by olewarden on Dec 29, 2007 17:05:53 GMT -4
You should never shoot a rabbit off of another mans beagle unless you are hunting with him or he tells you too. I remember one time when I was in high school a man was running a beagle and it ran a rabbit past my dad nd I three or fout times. The next time the dog and rabbit were heading toward us the man yelled out "shoot the rabbit, shoot the rabbit, mister please shoot the rabbit. We did and the guy came up to get his dog . We gave him the rabbit and he thanked us, he said his dog had been running that rabbit for a half hour and he couldn get a shot and he had to get home and he couldn't call,off his dog. We laughed about that untill my dad passed.
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Post by mrlongbeard on Dec 29, 2007 23:55:48 GMT -4
had the same thing happen to me and truegrit with our dog. she ran that thing for over an hour and we never got a shoot . wish somebody was there to shoot it. we called it the rabbit from hell.
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Post by pasteve on Mar 23, 2008 20:55:23 GMT -4
well i agree the right thing to do is not to shoot,i would probably stop and wait for the person to get to me and tell him where it went to try and boot it again. last thing i would want is someone else shooting a rabbit or bird that my beagle has worked hard at flushing.Its all about the other hunters ethics as to what they would do a true hunter wouldn't shoot it or even chase after it,he/she would wait for the other hunter and maybe try to gang up on the critter for a better chance for harvest...but hey thats just my opinion........
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Post by cmreed on Mar 24, 2008 9:01:33 GMT -4
I would agree I would not shoot. However I never had the chance to hunt with dogs That has to be a blast!
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Post by truegrit on Mar 24, 2008 21:36:33 GMT -4
It is a blast! me and mrlongbeard have been rabbit hunting for years, we even got Buckslayer in on hunting with our beagle now he loves it. We went hunting with zodiak in October with her GSP's and THAT was a lot of fun, her dogs are great on pointing birds.
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Post by archer131 on Mar 25, 2008 14:30:04 GMT -4
I would not shoot either way.....
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Post by Twowithone on Mar 25, 2008 21:36:27 GMT -4
Wouldnt shoot unless the other hunter said it was O.K. then its gametime.
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Post by starsnstripers on Mar 28, 2008 7:49:05 GMT -4
I was a long time member of the Mason Dixon Beagle Club. I still own beagles, but dont do the feild trial thing anymore, According to some of the members of the club, and myself included, you DO NOT shoot ANY game off another person dog, unless the dog is hunting for you also. Just step back and enjoy the show good dogs will give ya. And if your lucky, ya might get to see a dog catch a rabbitt, I got a dog, a 15 INCHER that was real fast, and good at that, when he was younger, he is 12 now, he still runs em, just not as fast. So I turned to huntin them with stick and string. THATS A BLAST
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Post by asinglearrow on Mar 28, 2008 12:07:55 GMT -4
I am also a long time beagle lover but dont field trial or judge much anymore but still love to run and hunt with them! You should not shoot anything from anothers beagle/pointer unless your a member/guest of that persons hunting party!
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Post by sluggun on Apr 2, 2008 18:53:43 GMT -4
I wouldn't shoot anything in front of an others dog.
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Post by cmchap on May 9, 2008 7:17:24 GMT -4
As a guy who has spent many hours running the beagles so they'd be ready for gun season, I do not appreciate anyone not in my hunting party shooting a rabbit we have up and running.
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Post by mrlongbeard on May 9, 2008 18:34:30 GMT -4
have to agree don't need anybody shooting over my dogs . unless their with us of course
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Post by bitlife39 on Jun 25, 2009 14:43:10 GMT -4
i agree with cmchap when you get a rabbit going you dont want anyone who isnt in your hunting party shooting it.
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