Monsterbuck
Active Member
A little back story first. Buddy of mine shoots a buck this past fall and watches it run 50 yards or so and go down. It's head is up lolling a few times then down for good and motionless for several minutes. It is raining and begins to hail. He called me to come help and heads back to the truck to get his cart and meet me. We go back in and the deer is gone. Good blood from spot of hit to where he went down and a pool of blood there but not another drop. Nasty weather and location he was hunting makes it almost impossible that another hunter took it. We searched hours and never found it. After this search he Google searched for a blood tracking dog thinking he would hire one to help find the deer that we could not find. Unfortunately we found out that it is illegal in Iowa to track a wounded deer with a dog.
Fast forward to the Deer Classic and we saw there was a booth with blood trailing dogs. We spoke to them and they said they have been trying to get it legalized but that their biggest opposition has been the IBA. Additionally they said that most IBA members were not opposed to blood trailing dogs being legal but that certain members of leadership within the IBA was against it.
I am wondering what people on here's opinions are on this subject. Should we IBA members tell leadership that we support it?
The only argument I got from an IBA board member I asked about it was that in his opinion people would be taking all kinds of risky shots just to get an arrow in a deer then bring a dog in to track it down. Doesn't really sound like a good argument to me.
Anyway let's hear where you stand.
Fast forward to the Deer Classic and we saw there was a booth with blood trailing dogs. We spoke to them and they said they have been trying to get it legalized but that their biggest opposition has been the IBA. Additionally they said that most IBA members were not opposed to blood trailing dogs being legal but that certain members of leadership within the IBA was against it.
I am wondering what people on here's opinions are on this subject. Should we IBA members tell leadership that we support it?
The only argument I got from an IBA board member I asked about it was that in his opinion people would be taking all kinds of risky shots just to get an arrow in a deer then bring a dog in to track it down. Doesn't really sound like a good argument to me.
Anyway let's hear where you stand.