Ah right, yep, I see your point now, at last. You're that 'savvy' you deliberately laid a bait for me, because I've picked at a couple of your older post.
Only 'novice' lurcher owners think deerhounds would be any good on deer, no particular species, as you didn't specify.
And you also deliberately missed out the fact that you yourself have seen some decent deerhound crosses that were good on deer, even though you say people are fooling themselves if they think they've seen a good deer dog, just because it's got 'deerhound' in the name.
? hmmmmm I think I've got that right. Anyw