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I arrive at my hunting spot, park, get out, begin to get my hunting gear on and start to hear footsteps across the way.
I stop, pull out my rifle and prepare for coyotes.
The noises get closer
I raise up, ready.
It's the neighbors blood hound [emoji49]

Must be a mix between a Great Dane and a bloodhound cause he's enormous.

Thankfully, he's a pleasant dog and proceeds to lick my hand.

Then a second dog come up...awesome. I love dogs but not while I'm deer hunting.

Now I'm thinking, if there were deer in this non-pressured land, they aren't anywhere near these dogs!

Is there any point in heading to my stand? Surely they'll just follow me, which would effectively ruin the hunt


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Whoop em, throw rocks at them. Let them know they are not wanted there. They should leave you alone. I'd still hunt.

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The deer won't leave the area unless they are actually chased by the dogs. Those dogs may not be deer chasing dogs.
I've even seen a doe chase my dog away from her fawn this summer. She wasn't messing around.
 
I was hunting Wednesday morning on public land and when it got light I heard the commotion and knew it sounded bigger than squirrels or birds in the thickets. Stand with my bow and see two hound dogs. I could still see where the grass was disturbed by my foot steps and these two dogs were on top of my tracks. Had GPS collars on and were apparently squirrel/rabbit dogs. Got to the base of my tree and just howled forever. I hooked my bow rope to my bow sling and shook it down and they finally got off my tree but commenced to chasing rabbits zig zagging back and forth, so I gave up.

Didn't get mad though. I saw the sunrise from a tree on a Wednesday and the small game hunters paid as much for that land as I did.
 
Last year I had a relative's dog follow me into the woods. No getting rid of it, so I hunted from the ground with it asleep in front of me. Fired right over it's head and shot a nice buck. All I saw a black streak and the dog was GONE. Yesterday I had a pack of domestic dogs playing on the hillside across from me. Not long after they left two deer came in on the same trail.
 
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Where i grew up we had about 30 acres behind our house that the neighbor let us hunt on. Got in the blind one morning and heard something running from the direction i walked in. Ended up being my chocolate lab. No way i was walking it back to the house so i just picked him up and walked him up the ladder and into the blind. He slept all morning lol.
 
Last year I asked an in-law if I could hunt one of his stands. He said sure.

I drove 1.75 hrs and climbed into the stand. I had been in the stand for probably 10 mins when I heard a dog barking near by followed by a couple of shots. As the minutes clicked on, the same dog would bark followed by shots but this time closer. Finally, the dog barked again and I could hear voices and out steps the in law with a friend and their squirrel dog. I climbed down from the stand and went home.

Seems he forgot I asked to hunt that stand that very same morning. So I drove 3.5 hrs to sit in a stand for 20 mins top.
 

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