Dog deer hunting typically involves putting GPS tracking devices on a group of dogs and then releasing them onto property that has a deer path. Since deer typically run the same paths, hunters can anticipate where the deer will emerge from the woods onto a road. They follow the roads in pickup trucks, tracking the dogs' progress through the GPS.
"The purpose of the dogs is to chase the deer through the woods and across the fields and ultimately into the road," said Steve Graf, Cedar Grove resident. "When the deer jump across the road, they shoot at them."
THE DOGGING LINE
In the 1940s, the state Legislature created the dogging line, which banned dog deer hunting in counties south and west of I-85, including south Orange County.
Alamance County banned dog hunting in the 1960s, and Durham County made the practice illegal around 2001.
