Thread: Couple of mates and their dogs chasing the mighty sambar

Originally Posted by EeeBees

@Bavarian_Hunter, a friend of mine in Australia hunts the sambar with the hounds...that sounds like great sport?

Depends on the crew, on the whole quite a few people don't look upon them favourably because of a lot of ethics and illegal stuff that goes on with them.

There's stories of cars getting burnt out, cutting fences, hunting NP (which I've seen plenty of times), and lots use Gps trackers on the dogs for actually hunting the deer and just driving around the tracks to cut them off which is illegal according to the handbook (nearly every crew I've seen does this), whereas they're legal use is for finding dogs after the hunt that have run off. Just stuff like that.

I went with a crew one time and they were using vehicles and Gps to cut off the deer, one bloke shot a stag and held the radio receiver over it for a few minutes while it was moaning in pain and thought it was a right laugh. One bloke also laughingly told me how he keeps a big shifter down at the dog yards and clubs the heads in of any that aren't up to scratch. Left a bad taste in my mouth so I'd never be a part of it again but there are good crews out there that do the right thing.

a good mate of mine did it for 15 years and another for probably 20, both loved it but both are out of it now for aforementioned reasons. The older blokes mostly are the ones that did it the right way when the hunting was about the dogs and not just getting big annual tallies.

I'm not against it though by any means, serves a good purpose at managing the numbers and done right would be great fun I'm sure.

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