If you are just wanting to kill a few deer each year for the freezer and don’t care how, you can still do it with dog hunters near you. If you enjoy the peace, quiet, and no drama of still hunting your own place, I can 100% guarantee you won’t find that bordering a dog club. Every big group of dog hunters I have ever dealt with were mostly good people individually but turned into a gang/bully mentality collectively with zero regard for anyone else trying to enjoy their own property. Even the game wardens gave up on trying to enforce trespass and road hunting laws with them which is why it is banned nearly everywhere.

What is an ethical dog hunter?

The first place we had by Georgiana was surrounded by big dog clubs. This was a detail left out in the description of the property. The first year we worked every possible day off to get the property ready for opening weekend. Fast forward to opening weekend. We get in the stands with the kids and about an hour in we hear dogs barking. A little while later here comes a big pack of dogs running through our place chasing deer. We’re all like what the he’ll was that? The same thing happened every Friday-Sunday until January. But it didn’t take us long to figure out what was happening. We had a County road that split our property and the club to the north of us would drop the dogs to run through our property and would stand the north line. Some strategically place big bowls of food scraps fixed that problem. They’d drop the dogs and the dogs would run straight to the food. They got mad at me and told us to please stop putting food out for the dogs. I told them I put it out for the neighbors old barn dog. It wasn’t my fault their dogs came on our property and ate the food. Everytime the dogs would come eat, we’d catch them and go tie them to our gate next to the county road and call them to come get their dogs. They eventually stopped turning them lose anywhere close to our property.

Trust me it’s a pain in the ass. I would not recommend leasing next to a dog club unless you like getting them turned out on you and have dogs all over your property every weekend and some week days. Have standers line your property waiting to see what their dogs run off your property on to theirs. Worst part is the gw has said and I quote “ well it sucks but it’s just something you’ll have to put up with because there’s really nothing you can do”. We he was right about one thing. It does suck.

Or you could just go join the Dog Club, and have a Good Time.

It took us several years to get the dog hunting curtailed around us by going to the CAB. Hunting improved immediately and has only gotten better. The deer are still mostly nocturnal after several years. They might keep the dogs off you if they wanted to. The excuse given to us was “ dogs can’t see property lines.”