No, Troy; I didn't shoot a dog. I don't need an excuse to shoot a dog. I'm not even defending shooting the dogs. I have certainly been tempted, but just can't do it. I had a dog shot by a neighbor and wouldn't put anyone else through that. I do understand why someone else would, though.
Hogwild, I've never said that the dog hunters did something illegal. Where are you garnishing your information?
I have stated that I don't know for sure, but would be willing to bet that they turned the dogs loose knowing they wouldn't stay on the property. That would come from my own experience with dog hunting, as well as my experience with still hunting near other dog hunters. I've done both. I've never been fortunate enough to be on a dog hunt where there was enough property to contain the dogs and we all had a great hunt without any dogs getting on someone else's property. If you have, good for you. It was the exception and not the rule.
I also make the assumption based on this quote from the article, "Henderson said tensions had been heating up over property lines leading up to the shooting." Now, it is possible that the dog hunters were having trouble out of those pesky still hunting neighbors, I'm just going with the odds that that wasn't the case.
