I was in a dog hunting club for one year. I dog hunted with some buddys for a couple years after that, but wasn't in a club. I had good dogs, I was popular. haha We had 5000 acres leased, and we ran dogs on our 5000 acres, nobody elses. If a dog crossed the line, it was left to come out on it's own, but we did everything possible to keep that from happening. I would have stayed in the club but the folks in charge tried to keep some kind of drama going all the time.
I had 8 beagles that would push a deer just hard enough to keep them moving. There were 15 bucks killed in front of them the year I was in the dog club.
That's one reason I want another beagle.
It's the guys that lease 100 acres and dog hunt that give dog hunting a bad name.