Posted on 12/16/2015 1:13:37 PM PST by w1n1
There isn't a clear answer on deterring poachers. The subject itself brings a sharp pain to every landownerâs asses. The right way to handle this is to let the authorities handle this. The following is an excerpt from a landowner on this ordeal and how he handled it.
David was a proud new landowner. He bought his 640-acre place in the rural South and started fixing up the old farm house. His land had a garden, fields for planting, built wood duck boxes, and stocked two lakes with bass and pan fish.
Life was good for the new country landlord until one morning he heard a gunshot, then two, three, five and more. They were closeâon his property. No one had permission to hunt, so David got in his truck and took off for the back of his square mile of paradise, while his wife nervously watched him drive away.
Ten minutes later David spotted a pickup truck alongside a county road that abutted his land. Three men were near it, two of them across a fence on Davidâs property. A lifelong hunter, David sensed trouble, but he purposefully was unarmed as he drove up beside the men, stunned at what he saw.
Five wild hogs were dead on the ground, shot on David's land from a public roadway. The hogs were wild, but in Florida they are classified not as game animals, but private livestock, so penalties for shooting them are even more severe than illegally shooting wild game.
"Fellows, those are my hogs you got there," David said calmly.
"Them's wild pigs, no season, no limit," one of the men said fast and nervous. "Seen 'em cross the road, we pulled over and shot 'em 'fore they got to the fence - they jus' died on your side. We're fixin to load 'em and take 'em home."
"Well, shootin from a public road right-of-way isn't legal, and I sure didn't give you permission to shoot 'em on my land," David continued as he stepped out of his truck. "We better let the game warden sort this out."
One of the threesome got into his truck, and David watched the man carefully. Then David dialed his cell phone for the local warden. Read the rest of the story here, what's your experiences with this?
Or shared the savings in deer corn. I figured i have lost about $200 of corn to those thieving basterds.
I don't hunt, not because I have any objections but because I think it's too much work. However, I do make use of the target ranges.
I lived on a 110 acre fallow farm. On the edge of the Cuyahoga Valley Reservation. Lots of deer turkeys, etc.. More than I could ever use. If someone came to my door, and struck in the right way, I usually let them hunt. But there was a price! I demanded some meat for my freezer. I also let them know that 5 of my friends also hunted there, and that they were Park Rangers.
But one time I found a deer stand from someone who didn’t have permission. I shat in it.
“Businessmen, they dig my herbs...”
How very Margaret Kinnons Rawling.
Don’t know what the picture has to do with poaching looks like a standard legal deer camp to me.
Buddy Hackett duck hunting story...
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=buddy+hackett+duck+hunting+story&view=detail&mid=04404CA9D993F3B6F75F04404CA9D993F3B6F75F&FORM=VIRE2
Yes you can get your butt shot really quick here in Dixie with that stuff. I would never go on posted private property without permission. If you get your azz shot don’t call and cry to the sheriff about it.
Yeah your average deer camp has 24 kills hung up. /s
[[How do you deal with Poachers?]]
I tell them I like my eggs sunny side up
RKO must not have been able to afford proof readers. Double quote at the beginning, single quote at the end.
[[We have angry bison who do a pretty good job of deterring pretty much everyone.]]
You aitn just a kiddin- I worked on a bison ranch- They be meeeeean!
Many close calls- (I even fell 2 1/2 stories off the barn roof [tarring the roof] into their pen- couldn’t feel my legs for a bit- thought my back was broke- no one was around- I thought my days were numbered- incredibly, only the young bison came over to sniff my face- a female investigated- but fortunately not too close- Was I glad to get out under the fence- had to crawl through bison poo- but didn’t care- )
Yep- wild times on the ranch
Scary, if you are on the wrong side. My dog slept beside my bed for 11 years. He understood me, not a word had to be uttered. Changed my whole attitude about that breed of dogs...oh, none of the boys ever got a spanking in his presence...:)
Except they ain’t letting their bucks get older than 3 years...
Do you tell them that they have a purty mouth?
Sounds amenable. OR, post signs and shoot violators. Bury them deeeeeeeeeeeeep. Problem solved. Yes, I understand that this seems extreme however, it would solve the problem. The article poster asked, he has my answer. Things have changed in this Country since the ‘70’s-’80’s - I have EVOLVED with them. Touchy topic with me and MY FREEKIN’ PROPERTY. Oh and GET OFF MY LAWN !
Love To All & Merry Christmas !
Snoot ;o)
Bury them.
Well said. To the degree your post contradicts mine, I defer to your position.
I didn’t notice that. I’m thinking they laid out the poster with the text first, and then decided to add the blown up face in the top right corner afterwards, and didn’t notice that they covered up a quote.
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>> “wild hogs are very nasty and destructive” <<
So are people that hunt without permission.
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