goin to go crazy

[dswish]

Coon season just went out here in the western part of VA. I guess in goin to have to lay the dogs up until the end of August. What does everybody else do when everything thing small and big is out of season?

[Bo wood]

Never had that problem ga u can run bear or hogs year round and fl u can hog hunt year round

[black and tans boy]

thats when you travel to a diferent state like a camping trip, i didnt know that they had season on coons, canrt you still tree them if u dont shoot them

[dswish]

on my side of the state we can coon hunt year round on private property but I only have access to 2 different pieces of property that are about an hour to 1.5 hours away and I don't have the time or gas some nights to take that kind of trip and get up at 5am for work the next day. Its pretty ridiculous that if you go to the eastern side of the state you can coon hunt all year on private or national forest land. Bear chase season doesn't come back in til the end of August. Where I live i've got national forest land right in my backyard for the most part.

[us veteran wv]

Travel a short way up too WV. You can run bear year round here. And there is lot's of coal and gas property that is accesible as long as it is not posted.

[bearhuntermatt]

It would be nice if non-residents of WV could run year round as well. Non-residents are only allowed to train in WV from early September till the end of Febuary which is the small game season for residents. If I was able to run over there now id be going every chance I got.

[dswish]

i thought that was the wv law but after i read that post i went back to the wv dnr website just to check. The 2 private pieces of land that I have access are actually not to awful far from wv at all. I'd love to be able to road my dogs like some folks out west are able to do, but I won't do that without tracking equipment on and if an officer would see me doing that I can gaurantee I'd be slapped with a big fat ticket.

[bearhuntermatt]

Yeah I like to run mine to get them in shape before training season starts. What I have been doing is just going to a forest service road and hooking them to the truck and run them about a mile or so depending on weather at about 10 miles an hour. Have carry basket that as holes in the side to hook the lead into. So hook them up one at a time on the left side to watch in the mirror. Works fairly good for me and helps get the gained wait off of them. Been thinking about getting a tread mill to run them on with the rising gas prices. Also I checked with a game warden about how i was running them and was told that was legal as long as they werent turned loose I was not doing anything wrong. Just dont have tracking equipment on them.

Matt

[dswish]

yeah i may have to do that back behind my house is miles of natl forest rds. I remember a couple years ago I was talking to a guy with curs that he squirrel hunted who had a run in with an officer who threatened to give him a ticket for even having the tracking equipment in his truck while the dogs were in the box.