Yep, Id wait till the deer hunting cooled off, like maybe after Christmas. Treeing squirrels gets harder as the season goes on, esp. February.
Thanks, looking there too, trying to find options in the Mississippi floodplain where we won't have to mess with the deer hunts.
Thanks! I was gonna post about weekday hunting, I would steer clear on weekends for sure if deer season was open. What about the Mississippi, are those riverside of the levee? Flooded during winter?
Great River Rd sits on top of the levee. Anything east of it is protected to some degree.
Yep, I do the same, I try to work with them, I deer hunt too but nothing like I once did and know people get up early and look forward to going and all. In November I'll hunt mid day during the week some and start going earlier or later after about the first week of December. If you're gonna plan 100% around deer hunters you might as well sell your dogs. I hate to say it but this CWD thing might be a silver lining for small game hunters.
This confuses me somewhat, I dont do it, but why should anyone wait until others are done doing their thing on public land? They pay their license fees too, so why wait? I know it is courtesy, but should it be a requirement to lose 3 months of hunting because of someone else doing what they choose? Not trying to stir a pot, but I have never had a problem with people doing what they are allowed during season open to them. I have had squirrel hunters walk right by me in Ohio while I was bowhunting, they waved and gave me a wide berth while leaving. 30 minutes later I shot one of my biggest bucks ever. If they had happened by 30 minutes earlier, I may have a different attitude about it. I have also had beagles running rabbits in the fields a few hundred yards from me. Never bad experiences, but food for thought.
There are a lotta good people in this world and some bad ones, I don't trust the bad ones with a gun around my dogs in the woods. Plus it is just a courtesy thing, it's better to make friends than enemies.
Maybe with dogs that hunt wide, but beagles and squirrel dogs are usually in sight. For the most part any dog should be under control, to the point that you can see them. Unless it's all open terrain with bird dogs, which would be mostly absent of deer hunters, it should still be a personal choice rather than fear of losing a dog. With the recent law passed, it would be a real bad idea to shoot someone's dog while they were hunting. That's a stupid way to die.
I did not suggest it, just sharing what the squirrel/rabbit hunters I know do "most of the time". They bounce around on private and strategically select public lands and days of the week to run their dogs Nov/Dec.
I'm pretty sure it's a costly felony to shoot a hunting dog.
Plus new law went into effect that says you can shoot someone a using an animal. Crazy, but it's right there beside shooting an arsonist. Now I am not sure if it has to be on your property, but I wouldn't want to be the one who gets shot for a dog lol.
Yep, that November time is good and around Christmas with the squirrel rut going is good, I know we've got just as much right but some don't see it that way and some would shoot a dog.
Orange dog vest 100% of the time!
Definitely would have an accident while hunting.
"yup, shot hisself in the back three times. worst case of suicide i ever seen..."
Aw, I'm not shooting somebody over a dog, I'd be pissed for sure and get deep in their wallet if I could but I can buy another dog, I can't buy back years spent in prison.
I dont think I would either, but my wife would shoot you and set the body on fire.
i like to think that i wouldn't either...but i've had two in my life that it would be a close call, esp if i saw you hurt/kill them. i'd dang sure return fire though, just as i would if ever sprayed by an idiot while turkey hunting. been stalked too many times....
