South Carolina Deer Hunting

[John Marscher]

Some of yall expressed interest in dog driving in South Carolina so I thought I should put up some pictures. Sorry about the Ithaca 10 ga, please move to another forum if necessary.

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[scott kittredge]

boy that looks like fun, i like to try that with my 10 ga hammer gun:)

[Dean Romig]

That's a nice looking Ithaca.

Definitely a different way of deer hunting from the way I do it.

After the dogs roust the deer do you run them down with the horses?

[charlie cleveland]

i ve hunted deer a lot with dogs but never off a horse...looks to be a lot of fun but i bet you need a good horse...id probably get a gun shy horse....is every body hunting with shotguns...do yall use buckshot or slugs or both...i like buckshot myself hard to beat a load of oo buck....looks like yall had a 100 percent ratio.... charlie

[John Marscher]

only buckshot is used. There are standers that surround a certain tract of land and then there are the drivers on horseback that go in with the dogs to jump deer. No they do not try to chase them on horse, if a deer jumps in front of them and they have a safe shot they will take it, otherwise a stander will get the shot. There is nothing like hearing dogs chasing a deer or hearing a driver yelling "LOOKOUT .... BIG BUCK" as a deer is being jumped.

[Richard Flanders]

THAT looks like big fun!

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Nice

Just like Robert Ruark used to do it down that way.


DLH

[Angel Cruz]

Man, that beats sitting in a tree stand any day!!

[charlie cleveland]

you got that rite ANGEL.... charlie

[CraigThompson]

I dunno if it beats a treestand for me personally , but I sure whouldn't mind trying it :bigbye:

And I have the Ithaca 10 gauge to do it with although I think I'd rather use my W&C Scott 10 gauge !

[Mills Morrison]

Cool photos. Is that at Cheeha Combahee?

[Mills Morrison]

Just ordered a DH 10 gauge to add to the herd today. Would love to try it out on driven deer.