The most popular form of hunting where I am from is by force of dogs. When I was about 12/13 years old all of my friends had dogs and we would often hunt kangaroos in the afternoons after school or on weekends. I didnt realize it at the time but the way we hunted was very much like the way people hunted in medieval times - par force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_hunting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_hunting
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We do have some deers in Australia here and there but there arent any within walking distance of where I grew up but a kangaroo is actually quite similar to a deer if you look at them - kangaroos are almost like a deer that decided to jump rather than run. My friends and I hunted the Eastern Grey kangaroo which are not as large as the Red Kangaroo but they can get pretty big and you often come across an Eastern Grey buck that stands as tall as a man and if you have ever seen them fight each other you know that they have a powerful kick that could kill you. So a kangaroo is certainly worthy of hunting par force.
So where I grew up was a small town and behind the town is bushland that is actually Crown Land which is funny because that was always where we assembled to begin the hunt. Its funny because the idea of Crown Land here in Australia basically comes from the Normans that invaded England and then took all the hunting land for themselves and forbid the peasant Saxons from hunting on it. All these friends I hunted with lived in town so we were basically peasants hunting on land owned by the Crown which is still illegal. Ha. Anyway we would assemble on this Crown Land which everyone calls The Common which is also funny.
I am actually a Norman myself but even though these guys I hunted with were peasants they were a pretty exclusive group and it was a great honour to be invited to join the hunt. I didnt own a dog myself but I was always welcome to join the hunt. My friends mostly used Australian staghounds which was originally a greyhound and Scottish deerhound hybrid - these dogs are ideal for hunting in the Australian conditions but where I live guys take great pride in creating their own hybrids and will generally breed a staghound with a larger dog hoping to retain the speed but increase the power. So most of my friends had staghound hybrids like these that were staghound cross mastiff or whatever.
So after assembling at the Crown Land or The Common we would set out on foot for what would be the moving. We had no relays obviously - we would just walk through the bushland with the dogs on leads and we were hunting mostly by sight but the dogs would often pick up the scent of kangaroos and we would follow them. So you had to be quiet because the idea is to sneak up on a kangaroo or a group of them without them knowing you are there so they dont have too much of a head start on the dogs - it would happen quite a bit that a kangaroo we let the dogs off to chase down would escape because the dogs werent close enough to run it down. So when you did sight some kangaroos you sneak up as close as you can without getting spotted and you would split up a little so the dogs are coming from different angles. So when you are all in position you let the dogs off their leads and the chase begins.
So since we didnt have horses we had to sprint as fast as we could behind the dogs - the motivation was that you wanted to be as close to the dogs as possible when they had exhausted the kangaroo and it turned to defend itself - or was 'at bay'. This was the fun part - the baying. So when the kangaroo is at bay it will lean back on its tail and kick at the dogs - and its common for a dog to get injured and possible for them to be killed. But yeah this is the part you want to witness as the hunter. So my friends and I would sprint up behind and then crowd around to watch the fight. If you got a big buck then its likely it will put up a decent fight so the baying can last quite a while at times. Every now and then the buck will actually get the better of the dogs and they will be unable to kill it so you have to intervene. We wouldnt take knives because it would be unsafe to get within stabbing distance of a kangaroo at bay - especially a large buck standing as tall as a man - so what we would do if need be is pick up a goodly sized stick and hit the kangaroo in the head with it. If kangaroos have a weak spot it is their heads - they have pretty soft skulls. One time I saw a guy that couldnt find a stick and had to intervene so his dog didnt get killed run up and punch a big kangaroo in the head and he killed it. With one punch. Another time we had chased a big kangaroo into a dam - they often head for a dam if one is around because a kangaroo has a great advantage over the dogs when its in water and will push the dogs under and drown them - so this big kangaroo is in the dam and the dogs have gone in to get it but the roo keeps dunking them - and they cant be called off at this stage so we are all throwing rocks at the roo - and everyone is missing. I pick up a rock the size of a brick and I throw it and it hits the kangaroo right in the head and its head explodes - and as it sinks leaving a pool of red where it was my friends all let out a scream of - AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my friends had a rottweiler and it was big and slow so no good for the chase but when it finally caught up it was a real killer when a kangaroo was at bay. His name was Brutus. Every now and then we would come out of The Common to some farmland that was owned by this guy Greenie - and he had sheep in these paddocks - and since Brutus had a taste for blood from kangaroo hunting it wanted to kill any animal it saw so sometimes we chase a kangaroo into one of Greenies paddocks and they head for this mountain he had - so the dogs are chasing but Brutus sees the sheep and splits off and ends up killing a sheep instead of the kangaroo. It used to get out of my friends yard and kill cats - once I remember it got into a guys chicken coop and killed all his chickens - and eventually my friend had to move the dog because the police were going to shoot it. So he moved it to another town to stay with his sister but it ended up biting a poodles head off and after that the police did shoot it. RIP Brutus.
But yeah - often you go out for a few afternoons in a row and dont even see a kangaroo - or you chase one but it gets away. So when you do get one there is great excitement and a collective bloodlust comes over the hunting party. This bloodlust is impossible to describe and I have never experienced anything like it.
After the kangaroo was dead we didnt bother with any 'unmaking'. We would go from kill to 'curee'. We would let the dogs eat some of the dead kangaroo but we would leave most of it.
So thats how modern hunting by force of dogs goes in modern times. This kind of thing was illegal back then but even more so these days. I often see in the news a story about killing a kangaroo with a dog and going to jail for it - but it is still quite common. Unless someone is stupid enough to video the baying and post it to facebook who is going to know? For the most part guys hunt pigs by force of dog and they will kill the pig with a knife after the dogs have chased it down - Medieval style - but there are still some people hunting kangaroos this way. If you are on a farm or some Crown Land who is going to see you?
I dont hunt anymore but I did enjoy it as a kid. I did some shooting as a kid too which involved some friends and I getting into the back of a ute at night with rifles and driving around a farm 'spotlighting' but I always found that to be boring as hell compared to hunting by force of dogs. And certainly less noble.
Do you guys agree? Hunting by force of dogs is more noble than by bow and stable right? Or guns.
edit - I forgot to mention. When a kangaroo is at bay it will let out a haunting scream.