A good ol' fashioned Ontario deer hunt!

ninepointer

ninepointer

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As much as I enjoy crossbow hunting for farmland deer, it always seems more special to me when the hounds bring a deer to my rifle in the big northern woods :)
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Nothing like a traditional hunt in Eastern Ontario, love hounds. Nice deer and nice dogs, that one looks like a black and tan, are they both?
 
right on. if it was just a matter of killing a deer i could just stay home. my camp is north of cloyne, up 41 highway, and has been for 30 years, and i don't plan on leaving.i love to run my beagles and the 6 of us get more out of that kind of hunting. you're right , farm deer are great for bow hunting and muzzle loader.
 
Fox said:
Nothing like a traditional hunt in Eastern Ontario, love hounds. Nice deer and nice dogs, that one looks like a black and tan, are they both?
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Fox,

The near dog is a black & tan. The far dog is 1.5 year old "gonczy" that was brought over from Poland by one of our members. "Gonczy" translates into hound. It is very similar to a black & tan, although this one is mostly black. The dog has an excellant nose but its best characteristic is that it does not chase the deer to the end of the Earth. It will take a chase for 5 or 10 minutes (more than long enough to run the deer by a hunter) and then return. On the downside, its voice is not deep like the hounds we are used to, its more of a quiet bark, so the hunter does not tend to get advanced warning that the dog is running a deer his way. But all in all, the dog is a great addition to our camp.
 
Interesting dog. We run beagles and a beagle walker cross, mind you this year we hunted dogs about as much as deer, the guys do not understand what it means to grab the dogs when they hit the line.
 
you're right fox. sometimes we hunt for dogs more than deer and the guys always seem hesitant about grabbing the dogs. the fact is, that without hounds in the east forrests you're simply not going to see much in the way of deer. to those who haven't tried it, you're really missing the traditional eastern ontario deer hunt.
 
Fox said:
Interesting dog. We run beagles and a beagle walker cross, mind you this year we hunted dogs about as much as deer, the guys do not understand what it means to grab the dogs when they hit the line.
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Yeah we have that problem too... Dogs go forever and then get lost..... Most of the time they come back :(
 
Those new Garmin GPS dog collars look interesting, although a couple of guys I know have said they will wait a couple years to see if the price goes down and the technology improves. As I understand it, the collars have a 4 mile range but rely on line-of-sight transmission from the collar to the receiver. This isn't much good in hilly Canadian Shield country.
 
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Congrads ninepointer fine buck and I am sure it was a challange shooting him infront of dogs, we only hunt by pushing deer, they don't come out as fast as a dog puts them out, but some times they are moving right along.
Sure liked the way you covered blood on photo, classie picture well done.
 
manitou210 said:
Sure liked the way you covered blood on photo, classie picture well done.
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Thanks Manitou for noticing that we made an effort to clean up the deer for the photo:) The ritual of the branch on the wound and in the deer's mouth is an ancient one that is still fervently practiced in Germany and Eastern Europe; that's where my forefather's came from. Here's a quote from an article that helps to explain it:

"Hunters who shoot a deer or other animal are expected to pause in silence for at least a few minutes, Ergert told me. This is a time meant to contemplate the complex mixture of elation and sadness that comes with killing any animal. A downed deer is laid on its right side, with a small branch of fir or oak—known as Der letzte Biss (“the last bite”)—placed in its mouth as a mark of respect. A second branch is placed on the deer to show that the hunter has assumed ownership of the dead animal. Hunters who follow all the appropriate rules and traditions of the hunt are presented with a shooter’s branch, which is worn in the left side of the hatband until sunset on the day of the kill."

The entire article can be found at:
http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2003/HuntingGermany.htm
 
My first deer was shot over hounds. That was 19 years ago. It's difficult to explain the excitement of deer hunting with hounds but there is nothing quite like it. The problem that we have now is that nobody in the gang wants to take care of hounds for 51 weeks of the year. Does anyone know if we could rent some hounds for the first week of November next year? We're in the Sudbury area.

Best regards,

Slooshark1
 
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