FL hunters question

[Sailfish_WC]

[please don’t turn this into a anti/pro dog issue]

What are y’alls experience with the deer ...post them running the dogs?

We have a few hunts that they allow the hog/dog hunt right before the archery (other) hunts.

Have you noticed if all the dogs, hunters and activity in the wood etc change the deer pattern?

Push them out of their normal bedding to new bedding?
Permanently?
Temporarily (if so, how long)
Not at all?

General thoughts

[Rich M]

Hog dogs shouldn't bother the deer too much. They aren't running deer, they are catching hogs.

The guys who run deer with dogs often find them in the same spots time after time.

[Twenty Up]

I’d imagine it depends on how often the dogs are running the deer. There’s no shortage of cover down here so it would take some serious hunting pressure to force those deer out, long term.

I’d wager that a remote swamp island would be the spot right after these hunts.

[Sailfish_WC]

Hog dogs shouldn't bother the deer too much. They aren't running deer, they are catching hogs.

The guys who run deer with dogs often find them in the same spots time after time.

Right.
I wanted to be clear they weren’t running the deer

But dogs, their handlers etc cover lots of ground. Just always wondered what others may or may not have noticed from the deer post a weekend hunt on the public land

[Bogle]

I think it does bother them. I've hog hunted with dogs and even bear hunted with dogs (out of state) and it creates a lot of commotion in an area. If you're a deer and everything has been quiet for several months and all of a sudden all breaks loose I think it does affect an area. In addition, once the hog dogs get turned loose every weekend from then on out the pressure builds till we peak during gun season. I think a deer that has been around for a little while knows when the pressure starts to pick up in an area.