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Laws of Deer Hunting

There are laws to protect the deer butdeer dogs and who use them occasionally,
some of them are not implementedbut as the penalty is usually death to
properly. In Maine it is allowed to takethe dog and a fine to the owner, no man
a deer for so that the herds arewho values a dog will use him for this
prospered. There are some laws thatpurpose.
already banned the hunting of these deerI have watched a few of these dogs in
so that their populations areaction and I can see where there would
maintained.be a certain amount of sport in this
We had no regular hunter as some of thetype of hunting, if it were legal and if
camps had, but one of the men had made athe dogs were properly trained.
salt lick a short distance from campSlow-trailing dogs that do not drive the
and, as he worked all day, the only timedeer out of the country would seem to be
that he could visit the lick was atthe best deer dogs. The deer circle
night. I went with him one night when heahead of these slow dogs arid the sport
killed a deer. We were equipped with awould be similar to fox hunting. Most
miner's acetylene lamp and a .45-90every one will admit that fox hunting is
rifle. We waited on a platform in a treeconsidered a good sport.
until a deer showed up and then he shotI knew of one poacher who owned two dogs
the animal. There was no pretense ofthat he had trained to hunt deer. They
sport in the killing. It was simply thewere very fast dogs and they were
killing of an animal for its meat in thetrained to drive deer to the man's house
surest and easiest way. Since then Iwhere he waited to shoot them. This
have seen many refinements added to thisman's boys would take the dogs by a
type of hunting. The acetylene lamp hascircular route to a point some distance
been re placed by the electricfrom the house and then turn them loose.
spotlight. The tree platform has beenIf there was a deer between the dogs and
replaced by the mobile, cushioned seatthe man's house, that deer had very
of a car and the old .45-90 is only alittle chance of turning back past the
relic beside the guns of today. Only thedogs and it usually ended up hanging in
poor bewildered deer is the same as itthe man's shed. He didn't consider this
stands in the light, waiting to beas sport, only an easy way to obtain
butchered.meat for his family and to supplement
The use of dogs as an aid to deerhis income during the deer season when
hunting, while permitted in some areas,he sold a few deer to unsuccessful
is forbidden in most states. Here insportsmen.
Maine, the use of dogs has been outlawedWhen a hunter goes for hunting, he has
for a long time and as a result I haveto use the equipments for his safety.
had little experience with this type ofNowadays the equipments used in hunting
hunting. We have a few poachers who havehave so much improvement.



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