The chase, sometimes lasting for miles, calls for unlimited stamina from both dogs and men, and ends with the hog at bay, slashing at the hounds with razor tusks that will rip an unwary dog to ribbons. Smaller game animals are abundant in the State. For those who like to shoot cottontail rabbits the near woodlands and back pastures afford good hunting ground. To 'coon hunters nothing quite equals the night chase under a harvest moon, when two eyes glowing like embers high up in a basswood crotch mean that the game is treed. The One-Gallus Fox Hunters, Association, composed of farmers and casual fox hunters who maintain no kennels, meets at various places in Middle Tennessee.
Wild turkeys are plentiful, and are hunted in open season.
These fine game birds and bobwhite quail are raised at the State Buffalo Springs Game Farm, near Rutledge, and released on protected land. In the eastern uplands the ruffed grouse, skyrocketing from cover with a startling thunder of wings, is game worthy of any hunter's gun. Ring-necked pheasants are becoming a popular game bird, taking the place of grouse in the lowlands. Game technicians are experimenting with the propagation of chukar and Hungarian partridges. For the average man, who does not go far afield, bobwhites and doves form the bulk of the daily bag, and hundreds of hunters take to the open with bird dogs and shotguns every season.