Never had the misfortune to meet some of the ignorant buffoons that fancy themselves great white hunters in the NE portion of Alabama, huh?
I own some acreage, upon which reside some prime whitetail deer, both buck and doe. I put out mineral licks, cultivate feed plots and encourage mast production.
I once tried to allow some persons to hunt on my land.
Mistake. They would not follow my desires in culling the herd. Everybody wanted the trophy, but they would shoot at anything that moved, to include owls, skunks, raccoons. They spit wads of chewing tobacco on the ground, left the empty Red Man packs laying where they fell, one even left a six-pack of empty Dr. Pepper cans under the tree he was hunting from.
They would urinate and defecate indiscriminately and then wonder why the deer would not approach the area.
One fell from a tree and then threatened to sue me for medical expenses and for damages to his expensive rifle. I won only because he was the only one that I had failed to provide a written permission to hunt on my land. (A requirement in Alabama.) They did "whoopty-doos" on the terraced areas of a maintained pasture with ATV's. They refused to follow my established trails and insisted in driving their fat asses to their chosen hunting spot, ignoring my designated spots.
I put a stop to it and now am cursed repeatedly by those that abused it the most.
I allow no one to hunt my land, now.
I don't care if the deer resort to eating one another, I will not allow another ignorant so-called "hunter" to enter my land.
It is overpopulated, but I have decided to allow nature to take it's own course.
Enough of them wander to adjacent lands that are hunted heavily and thence killed, that I know it will not be a problem.
The main thing is that I no longer have to deal with the idiots.
Enough of them wander to adjacent lands that are hunted heavily and thence killed, that I know it will not be a problem.
The main thing is that I no longer have to deal with the idiots.
I don't blame you for banning the hunters you've had experience with. They were slob hunters and damage hunting for everyone. It always amazes me that anyone would go onto someone's land as a guest and then abuse the courtesy extended to them.
The big problem we have here (Kentucky) is a too short season. This results in too many hunters in the field at the same time, which I consider to be very dangerous. We need substantial modifications to the season length, rules to reduce the deer population (like two does before another buck can be taken) and create a safer hunting environment IMO.