Only more reason to just get the law.
Has it come to this?
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Only more reason to just get the law.
BleuBijou
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I get stopped by unknown people when I am out in Kansas and they ask if I have permission to be there and I tell them I do. I am wondering if they are hunting there , without permission??? One gentlemen stopped me and asked if I had permission and when I said I did and if he was coming over for the land owners B-day party that night , he gave me permission to hunt his ground too without me even asking. Hopefully they are just looking out for one another!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toad
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That is terrible, Prof. I have heard of these kinds of situations happening before, but fortunately I haven't ever had a face-to-face confrontation. I did once mangle a very nice deer stand with a sledge hammer and throw it into a creek.
I would guess every landowner has a situation like that happen at some point though...
As others suggested, the law needs to get involved if these people will ever change their ways. When they trespass, they expect to get a butt-chewing if they get caught. If that's all that happens, then they consider it a victory and continue to trespass. There has to be a greater consequence than a tongue-lashing, or they will never learn.
I would guess every landowner has a situation like that happen at some point though...As others suggested, the law needs to get involved if these people will ever change their ways. When they trespass, they expect to get a butt-chewing if they get caught. If that's all that happens, then they consider it a victory and continue to trespass. There has to be a greater consequence than a tongue-lashing, or they will never learn.
Posted areas
Last year we had permission to hunt a posted area. We arrived just as a State Trooper was going on shift who lived down the road. He stopped because we had out of state plates and were just entering the field. Lucklly the local Police chief who had permission for that posted area was with us. Written permission is the best answer to problems in this day and age.
Last year we had permission to hunt a posted area. We arrived just as a State Trooper was going on shift who lived down the road. He stopped because we had out of state plates and were just entering the field. Lucklly the local Police chief who had permission for that posted area was with us. Written permission is the best answer to problems in this day and age.
labsnslabs
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Will the law actually do something about it if you call them or will they just blow it off? I've never met anyone or heard of anyone that has prosecuted someone for trespassing or been prosecuted themselves.
This is the type of situation that really makes it difficult for honest sportsmen. We have 180 acres in NE Oklahomathat has a lot of deer on it, and it happens to us alot b/c of an old highway the runs by the west edge of our property. Here it is shoot them off of the road and then come back later at night to get it. This is why I am finding it more difficult to head up to S. Dakota to bird hunt. The owners are having to charge people for land access because they can't trust anyone. I get it. I think I would be the same way. I think the best way to stop it would be to call the law or game warden, let them get their kill, and then have the law arrest them for illegal harvesting. They would lose everything. In Kansas if you get caught with an animal you took off of someones property without permission, they take your gun and your vehicle, you get a huge fine, and you get the pleasure of calling your spouse and telling her you were stupid and lost everything.
I was told by a SD resident that they invented PAY TO HUNT and that the locals hunted the road ditches if they didn't have a good friend with land.
The law will do its part when contacted! Several years ago in ND a farmer called on a group hunting around his cattle and grove without permission and within 15 minutes a twin engine DOW plane was circling his farm spotting cars for the oncoming ground DOW.
The law will do its part when contacted! Several years ago in ND a farmer called on a group hunting around his cattle and grove without permission and within 15 minutes a twin engine DOW plane was circling his farm spotting cars for the oncoming ground DOW.