A general forum for the discussion of hunting with beagles, guns, clothing and other equipment and just talking dawgs! (Tall tales on hunting allowed, but remember, first liar doesn't stand a chance)
SB since there is only one like you and 999 million of the other kind (read the personals) who want you to sit by the fireplace and sip wine and go to the opera and PETA meetings and poetry readings I'll just put off all that a while. Like the two little boys having fun behind the barn, one says you know we will go blind if we don't stop doing this. The other said well let's just do it till we need glasses.
LMAO LarryG I don't know anyone that does the opra thing. Most of the gals I know would rather drink a cold beer than a glass of wine,
Just off the top of my head I can think of several ladies that deer hunt, fish, and beagle and live the "good life". Quit looking on Babe.com for a girlfriend LMAO.
Oakhill,
JC
Bev,
Swampgirl,
Amy Brewer (brewer mo's wife
Lyn (samlyn)
Lynn Jones (AKC Judge)
Amber (alswampers wife)
Beagler282,
It isn't the DNR that scare me. The DNR up here are good people. Several like to rabbit hunt. It is the public opinion based on a bias
news "investigator" that scares the hell out of me. The public gets a distorted version of a scent hount and training in an enclosure and spin the reality into a blood bath. He lead the public to believe the chase ended in a kill. The public is outraged. Fact is he reported the crimes of a few and led the public to believe this was the norm. THIS is how things start. The ignorant public has a voice louder than ours and if we don't watch our butts and fight our fight and stand WITH these fox hunters that are doing things the right way, rabbit hunting will be a thing of the past iin the not so distant future.
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They went to fox pens because you can't fox hunt outside in the south any more, not so the dogs could catch a fox and kill it. They don't want the fox killed anyway, that is just something the news nuts made up to stir up a fuss which is how they make a living. They will keep on until it gets so you can't kill a rat. Some nut will say it has the same rights as a human.
Here's the problem... generations have been brought up in the city. They have never hunted, raised cattle, farmed or fished. They don't see the need for such foolishness themselves, and they want to make all others stop being mean to animals which they consider barbaric and bloodthirsty.... the amusement of uneducated, subnormal redneck rustics. They have the resources to scare the government into doing just that. Flying disc dogs, anyone?
I live in the country where people still wave at you when you pass them on the road. About 6 months ago I went to the cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul). On the way, in an area that was rural farm land just a few years ago i passed miles and miles of townhomes. They stretched off into the distance as far as you could see in any direction. They all looked the same to me. For some reason that scared the crap out of me.
These are the people sitting in front of their TV's watching these reports and they will decide the future of hunting in this country. I doubt you could find a single person in this sea of townhomes that ever followed a hound or would even noticed if we went away.
I went back to the outskirts of Charlotte a few weeks ago to the 150 acre pasture I rented to keep my horses 35 years ago. It was the same as you said, now it is all townhomes that look alike and just go on and on. My old friend who owned it, Mr. Sam Knox, had died I was told and his family sold the land I suppose to developers. I didn't like it any more than you did. It's JMHO that we were lucky enough to have gotten in on the tail end of a time when a common man could have a decent life. I wouldn't call living in those homes and working in the city a decent life. But that's JMHO.
and PETA meetings 
and poetry readings 
I'll just put off all that a while. Like the two little boys having fun behind the barn, one says you know we will go blind if we don't stop doing this. The other said well let's just do it till we need glasses. 
