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Originally Posted by VelociMorte
Doc, while you were in S.C., did you happen to witness deer hunting with dogs? It's quite a sight. They use shotguns loaded with buckshot. A bunch of guys line up on a road, just within shotgun range of each other. They usually get dressed in camo, and then sit on a swivel chair in the back of their trucks parked along the side of the public roads. Another "hunter" releases the dogs some distance away, on the other side of the selected field. The dogs chase the deer towards the guys on the road. As the deer run across the road between the guys sitting on their trucks, they open fire. I actually participated in this once, but the buckshot whizzing by my head kinda scared me away from it. As a matter of fact, there are so many dumbass hunters here, I don't get into the woods during hunting season anymore, unless I'm on a private hunt club. Even then, stupidity abounds.
In one hunt club I belonged to a few years back, we were sitting around the fire after the day's hunt. One of the guys mentioned that he took a "good sound shot" . I asked him where his deer was. He said " I don't know if it was a deer". I said" I thought you made a sound shot?". He said, " I did. I heard a sound in the woods behind me and shot at it". I got up and left.
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Interesting post on a couple of fronts. I have driven by and seen people deer hunting with dogs in S.C. and N.C. I don't do that sort of thing but it's legal in some counties and to each his own. I was fortunate on this last trip. Three of us got to hunt by ourselves on 3500 acres of private land next to the Savannah River.
I will bow hunt on public land during the bow only season but not gun hunt on public lands due to safety concerns. I was almost shot by an O-3 years ago on Bragg and don't want to ever experience that sort of thing again.
I've heard of sound shots before and it's the most dangerous thing I've heard a "hunter" say in my life. You did the right thing by walking off from the individual that said that.
Doc