I can understand the frustration of the landowner. I grew up on a small farm in New England and we had a huge problem with trespassers. I caught one woman in our vegetable garden picking “wild tomatoes”. We had to keep the livestock in the barn during deer season after someone shot our horse while it was in a pasture within 50 yards of the house. I confronted a group of a dozen hunters once who were hunting together on our property and they told me to go to hell. They had hunted our land for 20 years and weren’t going to change. We even had a couple of cases were people cleared off the timber on part of our farm and started building a cabin. Some people have no respect for other people’s property.
Wow. Wild tomatoes? Free lumber? Just wow.
Opening of hunting season for at least the 1st 2 weeks can be extremely sketchy. The woods are full of morons who shoot at noise, movement, can't tell a cow from an elk etc.
When I was growing up the local paper always had hunters being hauled out of the woods shot either by other hunters, or themselves and sometimes ended up dead.
I remember one story where a hunter was on horseback and was shot by another hunter who fired at the noise and movement of the horse in the bush. The round hit the rider in the leg went through, shattered the stock of a rifle in a scabbard and killed the horse. The horse fell over pinning the rider as the elated hunter charged out of the bush to tag his “elk”. The horse rider was not amused and neither were the authorities.