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[Ronnyg]

I hunt deer with bow and gun and LOVE it! This will be my first full season of beagling. I got into beagles midway through last rabbit season and after I had already filled a couple of deer tags. Therefore I will have to wait and see which one wins out this season. I know I LOVE beagling whether I am hunting or running so it should make for an interesting season. Just hope the wife is still here when it ends

[SilverZuk]

I bow hunt a couple times a year.
I got burned out on it a few years back.

I still rifle hunt, but look at it like going to the grocery store.
I put 3 in the freezer each year, and that is about all my wife and I will eat. Sometimes I will shoot one for someone else.

After I get my 3, I usually continue to help others deer hunt as the designated dog. I take my shotgun to squirrel hunt while trying to push deer to others.

[blackrunbeagler]

Well here in the ONCE deer rich state of PA, deer hunting used to be a big deal. I used to not be able to sleep the night before buck season. Then the PAGC made it into an either sex sseason, that removed the tradition. Coupled with too many does being shot, and I am guilty along with many others for not realizing what we were doing to the herd. Anyway, deer hunting SUCKS in PA now. But I love to run dogs and try to take a kid once in awhile, and I shoot a few too. Beagling is my passion, seems that this is all I want to do now. I,m counting down the days till trial season and rabbit season start!

[blackrunbeagler]

Wow, you can tell I don't proofread I meant I shoot a few rabbits too!

[richard g harker]

EVERY YEAR I THINK I AM GOING TO DEER HUNT MORE , EVEN TAKE UP BOW HUNTING , THEN I LOOK AT THOSE DOGS IN MY PEN
AND THERE IS NO WAY I GOING OUT WITH OUT THEM, SO I GUN HUNT FOR ABOUT 5 DAYS . THEN CANT WAIT TILL GUN SEASON IS OVER TO START RUNNING DOGS AGAIN.
I DONT THINK IT WILL EVER RAIN HERE AGAIN

[deerfield]

I love to bow hunt and then shotgun hunt with my family. I run the beagles at night during that time. While we cut deer up the dogs run outside the shop.The majority of my rabbit hunting is usually in the the snow which is my favorite time to run the dogs.

[NC rabbit hunter]

We run deer with dogs october thru Jan 1. Might as well because you cant rabbit hunt anywhere because of people deer hunting. But after that we get on with it!!! We run year round!!! Rabbit dogs are my passion and has been for 35 years!!! I believe it gets worse the older I get,just gotta get after something!!!!!!!!

[jonnyringo]

I hunt deer during shotgun and muzzleloader season. Hunt rabbits the rest of the season.
Here is one I shot on my property a few years ago. I missed his Uncle and Grandpa.

[Jr Walker]

I love deer hunting and have skipped a trial or 2 for deer hunting but not planning on doing that unless the bucks are chaseing does would be the only reason im skipping trials this year or for some reason i havent got the dogs ready to be put in one...due to school i only deer hunt on weekends or use to...i learnt last season that i can still get in a little deer hunting if i head out he door soon as i get in from school mainly cause i seen around one of the nicest racks i have yet to see on our farm last year in the 2week break when i went to check for yotes...hope to bust him this year with the 30-06 if he makes the mistake to walk out in the open field dureing season Sometmes unless im to tired on morning hunts i might run the dogs alittle after i get back if i didnt have any luck

[arkyhunter]

In the zone i live in here in Ark. there are only two times a year you can hunt with a gun, one weekend around Thanksgiving and a weekend in Dec. and then only with shotgun and slug. Which is fine with me, i don't deer hunt anymore and don't want anything stopping me from rabbit hunting. I used to hunt with a recurve/traditional bow, and still have mine, i might shoot it in the yard every great now and then. Our bow season is probably about like the rest of the state. Most of the land here is open farmland except for a small ridge of hills that run through here and a few river bottomland areas, which the game and fish floods for duck hunters (don't get me started on that!!!!) so the competition for hunting ground is enormous. Last time i had a guy ride his 4 wheeler under my stand!~ I said then and there that was all the deer hunting i was doing, at least around here.

[CHRIS WHITT]

You guys need to make a trip over my way ,we don't worry about trying to fit little things in our schedule.When we hunt we hunt ,if the dogs go in the brush and out bounces a rabbit thats great but if it is a deer then I just saved some gas money traveling to my deer lease.

[coolbrze]

Our deer season goes from 15 Sept. to 29 March here in Northern VA and I'll usually shoot 1/2 doz. in that time.

[Drop_tine]

You live in the city Steve?

We can bow hunt in town those dates but it's doe only over half the season.

[brawlin beagle]

i am giong to fill my tags right away and then start running the as much as i can

[Ryan]

I used to love deer hunting,even when I had a beagle.now I look at it this way- with rabbit hunting I can sleep in a little longer,dont have to worry about my scent,and ya dont have to sit still waiting for hours on end,
rabbit hunting is much more action packed,& laid back, and overall just a good ol time.yep thats me hooked on beagles,and down with the rabbit fever.
I'll probably never go out of my way to deer hunt again,unless I know where there is one standing about sundown,so I can just walk up and drop him LOL.