Road Signs and WMA Signs

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John Singer

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A couple of days ago, a friend and I ran his dog on a WMA. As we pulled into a recently mowed parking area, we noted that the metal signs marking the location had been shot several times.

I have never looked at a road sign or WMA sign and thought: "That is a target and I need to shoot it."

What is the attraction of shooting these signs?
 
This is the sort of behavior that makes other hunters look bad. Either that or they are drunk, which is a terrible idea when firearms are involved.
 
All it takes is one idiot, to ruin a hunting spot. I've seen it happen, and it happened on a ranch that I used to hunt on, some idiot was littering out there, and started a fire. That guy will not let any hunters on again ever.
 
I once read:

An infinite number of rednecks shooting shotguns at an infinite number of road signs could eventually reproduce all the great works of Shakespeare...in Braille.
 
I took this picture 10 years ago. It may not have been a hunter that shot the sign but hunters were blamed for it.IMG_0340.jpeg
 
Yesterday while doing some scouting I drove by a field that was recently enrolled in Nebraska's CRP-MAP program. Last week it had new signs on the perimeter but yesterday they were missing! The steel posts they were attached to were still there but the signs are missing. I'm guessing someone who didn't want others to hunt there removed those signs because if it had been pulled by the Game and Parks I'm sure they would have removed the steel posts.
 
airmedic1 said:
Yesterday while doing some scouting I drove by a field that was recently enrolled in Nebraska's CRP-MAP program. Last week it had new signs on the perimeter but yesterday they were missing! The steel posts they were attached to were still there but the signs are missing. I'm guessing someone who didn't want others to hunt there removed those signs because if it had been pulled by the Game and Parks I'm sure they would have removed the steel posts.
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I saw the same thing in Kansas a few years ago. It was a WIHA spot and someone had taken the white signs off the posts.
 
Or the land owner decided to remove the property from the program. I’ve seen that here in Colorado. The t-post is there but the sign is gone. I’ve asked parks and wildlife about it and they said that if the sign is gone you can’t hunt the property regardless of what the walk in map says.
 
airmedic1 said:
Yesterday while doing some scouting I drove by a field that was recently enrolled in Nebraska's CRP-MAP program. Last week it had new signs on the perimeter but yesterday they were missing! The steel posts they were attached to were still there but the signs are missing. I'm guessing someone who didn't want others to hunt there removed those signs because if it had been pulled by the Game and Parks I'm sure they would have removed the steel posts.
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Yeah that happened on a place north of Lewistown, Montana, some idiot took down all of these block management signs that this guy posted on his land.
 
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