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Post by thebellcompany on Sept 7, 2017 11:28:20 GMT -5
I saw a YouTube video today that made my blood boil. A fella was hunting private land, he was approached by a disabled guy on a 4-wheeler wanting to know who he was and what land owner gave him permission to hunt. He gave the appropriate information, and guy on the 4-wheeler leaves. Next thing about 10 min later he hears air horns, yelling and wild shooting going on. Now if I was just a guest on the property I probably wouldn't fuss much but if I was the land owner and hunting I'd be livid. Anything like this happen to you guys?
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Post by tynimiller on Sept 7, 2017 11:48:21 GMT -5
If intent can be proven or admitted it does qualify as harrassment...however that is extremely hard to prove and rarely happens. However, I personally am contacting a CO and asking if they could at minimum pay a visit although it may not go anywhere to the individual. I would also if my property file trespassing charges or discuss with landowner...part of the deal could be no more issues, charges drop...if not they proceed.
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Post by firstwd on Sept 7, 2017 11:53:01 GMT -5
I had it happen on one farm I hunted. My stand was at the top of a cliff where the field came quite close, excellent pinch point. The cliff was across a creek from a county road. The neighbors would see my orange and start yelling and blowing there horn back and forth on the road until I left. I learned real quick to hide my orange when I heard them coming. They didn't see me and didn't do their normal routine.
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Post by ajp12 on Sept 7, 2017 11:53:02 GMT -5
Yes. Have had problems to say the least. Someone cut down our 25' black walnut tree that had our deer stand on just this summer. It's the only tree on our field and had 2deer stands in. They left the stands. Very very angry to say the least.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Sept 7, 2017 12:10:50 GMT -5
The neighbors to my in-laws like to hunt for about 2 hours on opening day, then play music and shoot tannerite the rest of the weekend. They're not harassing anyone though, they're just idiots.
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Post by boonechaser on Sept 7, 2017 13:16:33 GMT -5
I solved my problem. My neighbor has let a group from city come down for year's and they party, shoot anything that walks, liter, trespass, etc and don't pay him a dime for using his property. SO I approached him about myself and a good friend leasing his property couple weeks ago. It's worth me spending $500 just to not have to deal with the group. Done deal. They gone.
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Post by throbak on Sept 7, 2017 15:23:31 GMT -5
I did that one time also Boone John Robers started leasing next to me I leased it that Problem solved then Adjacent property owner passed an heirs sold to McKitterick 21 manufacturered homes in less than 2years on 89 acres I left couldn't deal with that
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Post by boonechaser on Sept 7, 2017 16:32:18 GMT -5
It's unfortunate the way things happen's. Funny thing is I probably won't hardly hunt this farm but it's worth not having a bunch of idiots , well acting like idiots. My neighbor is a great guy and he gets some $$. ($1,000) for 75 acres woods and will help overall area greatly. Expect to hold onto it for awhile.
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Post by foamyflyer on Sept 11, 2017 7:24:26 GMT -5
A couple of years ago the private land I had permission to hunt I put in a lot of pre-season work clearing shooting lanes, camera and foot scouting, getting stands ready, stayed out till opening day of archery. Land owner rented farm house a couple of weeks prior to opening day and the renters had setup 4 wheeler track through the woods. They even were riding a different area when I was hunting it. I told the land owner and he got them to stop until after deer season. The trails went right by a couple of stands, so they had to realize the land was hunted. Interestingly though, we took a couple of does in the evening on 2nd day of firearms with the neighbors 1/4 mile to the east target shooting all afternoon. Go figure.
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Post by GS1 on Sept 11, 2017 8:19:50 GMT -5
I had a neighbor sit across the property line on a drive and read a book, her husband put out salt blocks across the property line (while I was sitting in a tree 50 yards away), walk down the fence and ask who I was hunting on and who gave me permission (then called the state police and thought I was a fugitive they had been looking for at the time) and just walk across the field (which they didn't own) to make sure I wasn't hunting on them.
They are no longer owners of the property. The new people just drive up and down the lane when they see someone turkey hunting during youth season (obviously a youth) until the guy that had my son decides to just leave.
I usually wish no ill will on anyone, but there are exceptions.
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Post by steiny on Sept 11, 2017 8:42:37 GMT -5
The neighbors to my in-laws like to hunt for about 2 hours on opening day, then play music and shoot tannerite the rest of the weekend. They're not harassing anyone though, they're just idiots. I've got some neighbors like this. Seems like they wait until the last hour before dark, then burn through every clip of ammunition they own. The Tannerite use has pretty much stopped, guessing one of the other neighbors called the law on them for disturbing the peace. I'd gladly buy those jokers membership at the gun club 3 miles away. |
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Post by subzero350 on Sept 13, 2017 0:09:11 GMT -5
My dad owned property for 25 years before I got into deer hunting (he was an avid rabbit / game bird hunter, but never hunted his property before at all). So when I became interested in deer hunting, we decided to scout that property to see if it would be suitable for deer hunting. Turns out it had an old tree stand on it (not his) and the neighbors were using the property as a dumping ground for their yard waste (where they were burning it also) as well as for "mushroom hunting". But it was a great piece of property right smack dab between water, farm fields, and a swamp thicket where the deer bed down.
Needless to say, dad was not too happy HIS land was being used without his permission, so he promptly kicked the neighbors off and we put up several no trespassing signs. We set up stands later on that year and decided to try our first year hunting deer on that properly. Well, the neighbor kid who liked to mushroom hunt dad's property without permission decided opening morning would be a great day to ride his ATV without a muffler up and down the property line while we were there. He proceeded to do so at random times throughout the 1st deer season we hunted that property - for periods not long enough to allow the CO to show up and cite him for hunter harassment, of course. Fortunately for us, the deer in that area were used to his ATV so we still got one off that property the 1st season we hunted it.
Since then, we've lost a tree stand to theft and had several no trespassing signs stolen - all up until about 4 years ago when it all suddenly stopped; which was right around the same time the ATV rider kid got arrested for dealing meth. How about that.
Some people are jerks and there's no way of getting around that. Best advice I can offer is get video evidence of the harassment and show it to the CO. The next best advice I can offer is to go into stealth mode and don't let the harassers know you are there. I've learned that bullies need to have a target, and if there's seemingly no one around for them to pick on, they quickly lose interest and move on to annoying someone else. Which is to say making arrangements to get dropped off near your entry point so no vehicle is parked there to signal your presence is a good idea. We've also found out the enclosure blinds we purchased for our tree stands are a great investment because you can close the "window" facing potential harassers so they don't know you are in there.
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