Thread: Will pig dogs push deer out of an area?

The farm I'm on had a small population of 1/2 dozen fallow we were trying to get up in number. Lived in tiny patch of Bush, roamed the river edge and hill faces. Cattle dogs would push stock out the paddocks they ate from and the paddock that had the the Bush they hung out in. Barking and causing a commotion. They were still there... Until some one decided they had the right to cross onto private land from the river and shot one in the paddock. They were gone after that.
So my question would be is he using a knife or a gun?
As a foot note while sitting in clump of Bush shooting starlings 7 or 8 months back two ran across the top of hill down into gully. First I'd seen in about a year and were way up on farm, no where near where thier prefurred area had been.