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A few points to address here...
*Number of Dogs for the Pursuit of Feral Hogs: You are restricted to the use of a single dog while hunting in an area where the general deer season is open. For the remainder of the year, you are limited to three dogs per hunter.
*Method of Take: Dogs are not an authorized method of take for big game mammals. The use of a knife for the taking of big game is also illegal.
*Bowhunting Cripple Rates: The figure that bayedsolid mentioned is actually the exact statistical average borne from several studies taken from the 1940's to the 1990's. I am not going to provide fodder for the anti's here in this forum, but should any of you bowhunters be interested in the studies, please let me know.
*Number of Dogs for the Pursuit of Feral Hogs: You are restricted to the use of a single dog while hunting in an area where the general deer season is open. For the remainder of the year, you are limited to three dogs per hunter.
*Method of Take: Dogs are not an authorized method of take for big game mammals. The use of a knife for the taking of big game is also illegal.
*Bowhunting Cripple Rates: The figure that bayedsolid mentioned is actually the exact statistical average borne from several studies taken from the 1940's to the 1990's. I am not going to provide fodder for the anti's here in this forum, but should any of you bowhunters be interested in the studies, please let me know.
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The way I look at it, the majority of animals that are ultimately "finished" off with a knife would have never been in that position had they not been first hit with a legal weapon. If I shoot an animal with a gun or bow and finish it with a knife, the knife was secondary.
upper,
I would strongly discourage you from kniving the hogs with your catch dogs; I can guarantee you that Fish and Game will not interpret the law the same way you do. The catch dog is no more of a legal weapon in a statutory sense than the knife is, so Kentuck's reasonable theory about using a knife to finish off a crippled animal would not work in our case.
I would strongly discourage you from kniving the hogs with your catch dogs; I can guarantee you that Fish and Game will not interpret the law the same way you do. The catch dog is no more of a legal weapon in a statutory sense than the knife is, so Kentuck's reasonable theory about using a knife to finish off a crippled animal would not work in our case.
