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smokepolehall

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I watched 6 Doe's come running by me this morning so fast i couldn't get on them in the brush. I was sitting on my bucket and less than a min. and 4 dogs came thru. 2 started growling at me baring their teeth and hair on back standing up!. I flipped my safety off, was abit afraid they were going to jump on me. Only had one shot being the ground and 4 of them. They finally left me fer the deer. I will put up my ladder stand, i just found those trails and was watching to see if deer were active there.
 
I started carrying pepper spray a few years ago because of dogs. If you hit thier eyes ,butt ,or any sensitive area it will burn em.They won't come back.I haven't needed to use it on a person yet. With all the poachers ,trespassers and crazy people out there I figure some back up won't hurt.
 
smokepolehall said:
2 started growling at me baring their teeth and hair on back standing up!.
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I am not and have never been an advocate of shooting dogs, however that right there would have equated to at least one dead dog. :mad:
 
Well it was repeat today, only there were 7 dogs. They ran a big Doe by me, i was up in my stand. Glad i put it up yesterday afternoon. They were running fast and silent. I waited and about 10 min. later another smaller Doe came running by. It stopped and i got myself a deer. Reloaded got down tracked deer and found her. Drug her to my 3 wheeler up in the field and got out of there in case those dogs came back.
 
The pepper spray is good to have with you, but as an x-animal control officer, many dogs react differently to pepper spray. I've seen some that it didn't even phase them and just seem to piss them off even more. Others would roll over and give up.
One thing is for sure, if you feel yourself is in danger, shoot that dog, you are within your rights. But I understand your delimma with the one shot smokepole.
 
Darkthirty II said:
One thing is for sure, if you feel yourself is in danger, shoot that dog, you are within your rights. But I understand your delimma with the one shot smokepole.
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That is why I'm an ACTIVE advocate of having a backup.
 
I don't kill dogs that have a collar or I know belong to nearby owners with or without the collar. All others are fair game. I suspect that was a wild pack. We took a dog to the vet that had been running with a pack of c-yotes. They killed his Great Pyrenees adult male. He had been ripped to pieces. I think the wild dog took most of the damage from the Great Pyrenees. The vet put him to sleep.
 

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