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From: ftpam1@acad3.alaska.edu (MUNTS PHILLIP A)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Dogs and Deer
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Date: 15 Mar 91 12:22:18 GMT
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From: ftpam1@acad3.alaska.edu (MUNTS PHILLIP A)
In article <331@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>, clochmul@nrambr.chem.duke.edu (C. H. Lochmueller) writes...
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>From: clochmul@nrambr.chem.duke.edu (C. H. Lochmueller)
>It is a long tradition here in the South dating before the war of Northern
>Agression to use dogs to hunt deer. The typical deer hound is a gentle dog
>and they are known to be so unlikely to fight that they are killed by wild
>dogs here. There seems to be some real prejudice about using dogs to hunt
>among northerners who move here and one even shoots them as they cross the
>back of her property beyond her property line! 
> 
>This isn't a moral question, dear moderator. Just a stimulus to discussion.

     One of the western Canadian provinces permits using dogs for big game
hunting, but it is a bit more structured than the traditional English stag
hunt.

     I like to pick up hunting regulations wherever I go and read through
them; variations on what is illegal in different places is pretty interesting.
For example, Idaho permits "hand thrown missiles" for grouse and British
Columbia permits crossbows during the archery seasons.  Alaska permits
using 25 ACP pocket pistols (centerfire) but not 56-56 Spencer rifles
(rimfire) on big game.

Philip Munts N7AHL
NRA Extremist, etc.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks