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Post by bsutravis on Nov 23, 2009 13:02:27 GMT -5
First the salt-block fiasco, now this! I've got a ground blind that's brushed in very well where Kyle and I have been hunting on the edge of a corn field..... I'm leaving a $150 blind in the woods so I've really been keeping an eye on the area to make sure nobody is nosing around it. The farmer took 95% of the corn out the other day, but he left probably 2 acres worth of standing corn on the opposite side of the field from where we hunt. It's been that way since Friday and I've wondered why they left it......... Fastforward to this morning. I go to get Morgan from Kindergarten and drive by the field....and there's a Sheriff's cruiser parked at the field with his lights on. "Uh Oh..." I thought. I look back and see a truck, but no people or deputy. I go and get my daughter from school and come back, and the Sheriff cruiser is gone, but the farmer is driving out of the field. I stop and get out to go talk to him...and he asks me to drive out in the field with him. We go out, and he shows me where someone has taken a quad and totally FLATTENED over an acre of corn! Not a stalk still standing, totally on the ground! "CRAP," I'm thinking.... He was NOT happy, but luckily the idiot that did it is going to get BUSTED. There was a trail of corn stalks that fell from the quad all the way through the woods and led right up to the back of a house that sits 1/4 mile away from the damage! I was freaking inside thinking that he thought that I did it.... SCHEW!!!! The bad news for the farmer is that the corn is resistant to Roundup, so next year when he puts in his beans, all that corn laying on the ground is going to come up!!! He said he was getting 160 bushels/acre from that field...so hopefully he can get back some of his lost revenue! I told him that I walked the entire field edge after he gave me permission, and the corn was not like that....so it had to have happened over the past 3 weeks or so. Why do people do crap like that? ?
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Post by hoosiernavy29 on Nov 23, 2009 13:34:46 GMT -5
No one has any respect for there neighbor anymore. Glad the farmer can bust whoever done it.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Nov 23, 2009 13:34:48 GMT -5
Wow what a winner that guy is! How'd your son do on the deer this year Travis and what ever happened to the salt block guy? Did the CO catch him?
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Post by tickman1961 on Nov 23, 2009 14:43:22 GMT -5
I doubt seriously between the birds and the mammals that the "farmer" will have to worry about too much volunteer corn...
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Post by wileyonetoo on Nov 23, 2009 15:51:04 GMT -5
... the wildlife will be well fed. Still shows the stupidity of some people. Tresspassing and then leaving a trail to your house....yeah, he'll be on the World's Dumbest Criminals show. That's like leaving your wallet at the bank when you rob it. We dealt with a trespasser on opening day. He was back last weekend with his dad and they were both hanging from a 2-man buddy stand with no blaze orange on. I told him opening day that he needed to read the regs and start following them. What a putz...
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Post by indianahick on Nov 23, 2009 16:12:51 GMT -5
Several years ago I watched a guy drive a Toyota Land Rover type vehicle thru a mans corn field. Since I knew who that farmer was I went and told him what I had seen. Now here is a surprise he knew that vehicle and the driver. Seems as though he had given him permission to hunt the woods at the edge of the corn field. Now while it was probably a 1/4 mile or more walk to the woods there was plenty of edge to walk down. Me I didn't even get permission to hunt there the next year.
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Post by bsutravis on Nov 23, 2009 16:37:53 GMT -5
Wow what a winner that guy is! How'd your son do on the deer this year Travis and what ever happened to the salt block guy? Did the CO catch him? I'm supposed to call the CO after gun season to see if he was able to nail anyone over the salt.... that's at a different farm than where this corn crushing incident took place. My son is still holding out for a buck. He took a doe in the youth season...now he's wanting to hold some antlers! We get our first chance to do a morning hunt on Wednesday, so he's really looking forward to that.
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Post by jgrimm on Nov 23, 2009 17:34:52 GMT -5
That is why people will not give permission to hunt and fish on their ground, one person can spoil it for everyone!
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Post by Greenedog on Nov 23, 2009 19:50:36 GMT -5
Sounds like your having about the same kind of luck as me this year Travis! I went to one of my stands last week I hadn't hunted since hanging about a month ago and found this: Someone hung a sign on my tree! The first thing I did was to start checking the straps and make sure nothing had been tampered with. I couldn't find any tampering, so I went ahead and hunted. After setting there stewing for a few hours, I couldn't take it anymore and had to go make some phone calls. I talked to both the landowner and the farmer who leases the land and neither one knew anything about the sign. They both told me to call them if anyone ever gives me any trouble on that land. The funny thing is that both thought is was probably the same people putting up the signs; the "outfitter" who leases all the old Peabody mine land around us. If it's true, it's pretty pathetic. They lease 2,000 acres then trespass to run people off the land around the lease? I'm not accusing them, because I have no idea right now who put the signs up, but I'll find out.
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Post by bsutravis on Nov 23, 2009 21:50:20 GMT -5
WOW! Yeah, that sign would have went through me like a knife! Too bad they didn't have the gonads to leave a phone number on it!
At least they didn't swipe your stand like a lot of people would!
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Post by cambygsp on Nov 24, 2009 7:56:53 GMT -5
Travis, I think you will be darn lucky if that guy allows ANY hunting next season!
Greendog,
Are you DOUBLE SURE you are on the ground you are suposed to be on?
WOW, I can't beleive they went to the trouble to hang the sign and left your stand alone?
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Post by dbd870 on Nov 24, 2009 8:14:48 GMT -5
Terrible; People are having enough trouble finding hunting ground without nonsense like this.
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Post by huntingchick19 on Nov 24, 2009 8:48:50 GMT -5
i feel for ya guys. got a problem with people like this myself. Got rid of the farmer we had a few years back. Well when he couldn't hunt our land he decided to lease my aunts land that sits right next to ours. Well now he sets himself up 15 yards across the boundry and shots onto my property. Allready talked to DNR about this. Was told that untill I actualy see them shot a deer that is on my land there isn't anything I can do about it. Just makes ya wonder what happend to sportsmanship or if its a no exsiting thing now a days.
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Post by Greenedog on Nov 24, 2009 11:15:22 GMT -5
Are you DOUBLE SURE you are on the ground you are suposed to be on? WOW, I can't beleive they went to the trouble to hang the sign and left your stand alone? Yeah, I'm quite a ways from the property lines. The signs have been put up all over the property, even along the road where the farmer enters the field. My Dad actually seen someone driving around the field putting up the signs but assumed it was someone who had the right to. I hunted the stand last night and wrote a friendly little note on the sign with my name and number. I was thankful that my stand had been left alone. Of course, if it had been someone who actualy had the right to run me off, they could have just called. I write my name and number in sharpie up and down my steps and on my stands.
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Post by Greenedog on Aug 17, 2011 19:42:30 GMT -5
Sounds like your having about the same kind of luck as me this year Travis! I went to one of my stands last week I hadn't hunted since hanging about a month ago and found this: Someone hung a sign on my tree! The first thing I did was to start checking the straps and make sure nothing had been tampered with. I couldn't find any tampering, so I went ahead and hunted. After setting there stewing for a few hours, I couldn't take it anymore and had to go make some phone calls. I talked to both the landowner and the farmer who leases the land and neither one knew anything about the sign. They both told me to call them if anyone ever gives me any trouble on that land. The funny thing is that both thought is was probably the same people putting up the signs; the "outfitter" who leases all the old Peabody mine land around us. If it's true, it's pretty pathetic. They lease 2,000 acres then trespass to run people off the land around the lease? I'm not accusing them, because I have no idea right now who put the signs up, but I'll find out. Hmmmmmmmm........and this is the outfitter I spoke of back in '09. Seems they've made the local news..... gcdailyworld.com/story/1753696.html
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Post by lugnutz on Aug 17, 2011 19:56:54 GMT -5
Granted they broke the law, but gimme a break. All that time and money spent by our state for these kinda charges??? Selling a few rolls of sausage?? Seriously??
With all the BS hunters/landowners have to deal with, and they spend three years to arrest someone for selling friggin Sausage?
Almost seems like a friggin joke!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 20:53:47 GMT -5
Humm....:...looks like the illegal hunters need to be charged, not the outfitters. They killed the deer, and are responsible for it from that point on, till its consumed. Entrapment at the least. I bet they get off on most of these bogus charges.
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Post by gobblerstopper on Aug 17, 2011 21:41:17 GMT -5
Are you guys really defending the guys who illegally tagged the deer, illegally checked deer in, illegally sold the processed deer and lied about where they had shot does to not get over the county limit?
Would you also defend them if all these charges involved bucks? What if they took hunters who shot bucks to the check station and let them tell the station they had shot does since the deer was not with them and already being processed?
Is it ok then for a guy to shoot a buck and check it in as being killed in an urban zone and continue hunting for another buck?
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Post by lugnutz on Aug 17, 2011 22:30:35 GMT -5
Are you guys really defending the guys who illegally tagged the deer, illegally checked deer in, illegally sold the processed deer and lied about where they had shot does to not get over the county limit? [glow=red,2,300]The officers illegally tagged the deer, illegally checked the deer in. But are really concerned about someone processing a deer and selling it? Or selling rolls of Sausage? You are trying to make it sound like they had a meth lab and selling dope. [/glow] Would you also defend them if all these charges involved bucks? What if they took hunters who shot bucks to the check station and let them tell the station they had shot does since the deer was not with them and already being processed?[glow=red,2,300]No i wouldn't defend them, bucks are of importance, hence the 1 bag limit, hence the higher price. If the hunters lied about what they killed its their problem, not the outfitters. [/glow] Is it ok then for a guy to shoot a buck and check it in as being killed in an urban zone and continue hunting for another buck? [glow=red,2,300]Not ok, but not worth spending three years to bring down someone for doing so, when their are bigger issues to hunters/landowners.[/glow]
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Post by LongHunter on Aug 17, 2011 22:45:13 GMT -5
Calm Down people do not get your panties in a wad it will be o.k. maybe the guy on the quad lost control of the quad or the accelerator stuck it could have just been an accident ...GEESH
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