You need to have these in your Vest!!!!!!!

[BCBeagles]

Bunnyblaster you are correct. we will NOT be back in there. Safe hunting to all again, I know I just get a little to comfortable and this one made me think a bit how quickly things can go horribly wrong.

[Bunnyblaster]

And to be honest I'd never even considered it before we saw that fox.

I've never really thought about one getting stuck in a fence until today either.......just reminds me of all the things I still don't know.

[Kenny VanHoose]

I had a young male cought in a snare about 3 weeks ago and when i got to him it was very tight! I was lucky that he had been kept on a chain a lot like Crabby's and he didnt fight it to bad. I had no idea anyone was trapping there and it wasn't tagged. I was VERY mad about it!!! Its a good thing for me that I saw no one at that time.

[Ky. Hunter]

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if you cut a fence be sure and fix it and let the owners know why it was cut,thats the main reason landowners around here have stopped letting people hunt

I agree 100%. I would only cut a fence as a last resort.

[warddog]

Guys, I wasn't advocating cutting a fence just to let the dogs through but rather in an emergency situation as I described. I have seen dogs bound up in old torn down fence as well. In the situation I described the fence was at the top of a huge hill in Ohio which I would have called a mountian from where I live in southern Indiana. This thing seemed to be nearly straight up and why a fence was up there I don't know as it was in the middle of an all wooded area that the guide, who had hunted there for years didn't even know was there. I suppose it may have been a boundry fence but a much better man than me must have built it as the spaghetti dinner I had wasn't nearly as good when I got to the top of that hill (mountain to me). Dogs getting through fences is just a part of hunting and I would NEVER even think of cutting a fence, snare or remove anothers trap unless it was an emergency. If my dogs couldn't get through a fence they would get a quick lesson of under, over through or around.
Being a land owner I know about the cutting of fences and a hole smack in the middle is not what I am alluding too. Now beings some folks have brought this up how about those who cross a fence in the middle of the posts and mash the height down? I see that all the time, is there a difference?

[mjd]

your getting worked up for nothing,no one said anything about advocating cutting fences,just pointing it out to those that have never been in the fence situation to do the right thing if they have to cut a fence

Guys, I wasn't advocating cutting a fence just to let the dogs through but rather in an emergency situation as I described. I have seen dogs bound up in old torn down fence as well. In the situation I described the fence was at the top of a huge hill in Ohio which I would have called a mountian from where I live in southern Indiana. This thing seemed to be nearly straight up and why a fence was up there I don't know as it was in the middle of an all wooded area that the guide, who had hunted there for years didn't even know was there. I suppose it may have been a boundry fence but a much better man than me must have built it as the spaghetti dinner I had wasn't nearly as good when I got to the top of that hill (mountain to me). Dogs getting through fences is just a part of hunting and I would NEVER even think of cutting a fence, snare or remove anothers trap unless it was an emergency. If my dogs couldn't get through a fence they would get a quick lesson of under, over through or around.
Being a land owner I know about the cutting of fences and a hole smack in the middle is not what I am alluding too. Now beings some folks have brought this up how about those who cross a fence in the middle of the posts and mash the height down? I see that all the time, is there a difference?

[warddog]

Not getting worked up at all but merely explaining further as to the situation I encountered over the years and beings there was some dialog to elaborate on those who may not have had fence situations I added another one that ticks land owners off.