Fair chase?

[Catskin]

What is your definition of fair chase with hounds? With all of the new gps systems, vehicles and gadgets where does a fella draw the line? By no means am i a treehugger i like to kill my fair share, just wonder what others think is cheating? Personally if my hounds cant stop the game or intersept on foot its "gettin greedy". Didnt have all this fancy stuff in the "ol days". A truck onout the roads is a must, ya gotta k eep up! Haha

[Jkohnke]

I think that's for every man to define himself. I run coyote / fox and don't ever kill one. Not ever. Don't even carry a gun. But I also run whitetail deer with dogs and we have tracking collars ,GPS collars , cb radios and 4wd trucks and I can tell you it's still fair chase even then because we let way more get away than we kill. Lots anti hound people just using dogs are not fair chase. I say it gives an animal a heads up when he hears a hound trailing him. Unlike someone hid in a tree waiting on a critter to come out and eat bait and then shoot him. Is that fair chase ? Not for me to decide. I don't care if a man hunts animals naked with a spear if he thinks that's his fair chase but he shouldn't tell me my way of hunting isn't fair. Just my thoughts

[cowgurl_up01]

I agree with alot of points that jkohnke makes.But To me I think the gps makes it a "fairer" you can use the gps to get to the treed/bayed up animal quicker and ends their stress wither it be to take your hounds off or kill. And also should things go wrong you can get to your dogs a whole helluva lot faster. We've hunted just about any way with telemetry collars with gps with a mix of the two hell we've even had to run the dogs with nothing on but I stand by the gps and telemetry 100% the first thing I learned from my husband when I met him (before him the closest I came to hound hunting was watching where the red fern grows) was your number one job is to make sure you get to your dogs! And anything that helps me do that im all for