around here its a little different, the hunting club next to me has about 50 members or more, and the club on the other side has around 20 members and one big pack of beagles. In the big club about half the guys have 5 to 10 hounds each and all the dogs have them gps tracking collars so when the hunt ends they go right to them. Most of the land the clubs have is timber company land mixed with a hand full of private land owners and its almost all thick planted pine timber you can't even see through. Me and my buddy that lives across from me have a little over 800 acres with a 125 acre water shed lake right in the middle and in the back of the lake is a 100 acre swamp, all of our land lays right between these two clubs. The hunting clubs turns out a hand full of dogs at a time on their land and it takes a few minutes and the deer head straight for my swamp, the deer that make it past me head across the road onto kerrys land then he gets a few shots. All the time this is going on the other club on the other side is doing the same thing. All day long its the same thing dogs and deer and a few hogs going back and forth all day. Its not uncommon to see 20 to 100 deer a day. Most of the club hunters use short legged beagles so they dont travel to far. Deer hunting on opening day by my house is so fast that its sorty like shooting doves on a bad windy day on a baited field, you better not set down and by time you hear the deer coming 4 or 5 will already run by before you can shoot. You can shoot a couple doe's or so then pick out a buck,you can only bag one buck a day but we don't have a daily bag limit on doe's. So if you wanted to you could use all your doe tags in one day, that is if they made you use tags. You got to be patient and dont get to excited and shoot the first legal buck unless hes a good'un .
