Originally Posted by Out back
Originally Posted by Fishduck
I hunted with guys that did it right. Was a lot of fun and often very productive. The outlaws ended the practice in my county.

Growing up in Chilton County, we had 2 choices, run dogs with the criminals or fight the dog running criminals.
Not all of them, but the great majority of dog runners were a bunch of reckless drunk poachers who thought they owned all the deer in the county. If you dared try to stop them farm equipment got vandalized, barns burned, cattle shot, gates destroyed, etc.
People who come to Chilton county and lease hunting land today have no idea how hard we fought to put a lid on the rampant organized crime syndicate of dog hunters.


100% except that was the same story in every county. I'm sure there were a few good groups here or there with several thousand acres, but the vast majority in the 1990's and early 2000's were exactly as you describe. And they have only themselves to blame for it ending. I can't tell you how many times I heard the phrase "I can't control where the dogs go."