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I am sick and tired of this...lets do something

2245 Views 32 Replies 25 Participants Last post by  Africanbowhunter
This was a rant in response to a Gents question. The rant was not against the Gent, but just a opinion why hunting grounds are smaller, and why I let no-one hunt my land what is your take? :

I think (just guessing here), the problem lies not in the accuracy of the hunters out there, but the moral responsibility to stay within the laws. No trespassing. No shooting turkeys and deer without permits. No chasing with vehicles. No tearing up land that is not theirs. No asking friends to hunt when its wrong to do so. And to get permissioni EVERY year from land owner.

I no longer have *any* faith in *any* of the hunters out there. and THAT is @#$#@ sad to say. I get fed up, @#[email protected] off, and tired of jackasses that ruin my land by running 4WD, ATV's and shooting up guns all over the place. They hunt without my permission, they go on without my permission, and I have wardens and sheriffs out all the time. I can't catch the suckers. Thus, i turn down every hunter now... for the past 5 years. What is sad?? one of the very hunters I turned down, I caught 2 years later. Yeah... I ticketed him and one of his buddies.

Personally... you really want to solve hunting problems and landowner problems???? TURN IN EVERYONE that can't show permission on the land you are hunting. If it is your best friend... TURN HIM IN!!... No friend of mine breaks laws... If he does wrong to others, he will do wrong to you.

This @#$# stops with the hunters.... it stops with the ethical and law abiding hunters. It will NOT stop with hunters that do not take action to protect the very grounds they hunt.

My rant is over <g>. Maybe others will read this... Maybe they will agree... maybe not...that is fine. But I have to pay taxes on 1000 acres of land... they don't. Shouldn't I be able to walk out to my own land and hunt a deer without seeing tracks all over the place, missing tree stands, gut piles, and ran over crops?
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You bet! I've had this problem on my property too! It gets better! They stopped and ask, I told them no because of hunting and they did it anyhow! One of the young guys dad is a cop! Gets better! A landowner who has ingress and egress rights to my lane to his property keeps telling all his pals he owns the lane and go ahead. But watch out for Jack because he can be a #%$! Lawyers sent him papers stating that I own it! His property doesn't even touch mine. Anyhow, I agree 100%.
I know what you're saying. I like it when they tell me they got permission from the owner. I even have folks tell me I don't own it and blah,blah,blah. Fine, you pay my taxes. I feel your pain! I've been going for walks everyday trying to catch 2 clowns! The cops help but it's hard. I've actually thought about selling my property and moving away! Maybe Kansas :D . My lawyers told me, and you try to explain this to people, I can get sued by a trespasser if they get hurt! They would hope that a judge would throw it out but he said you know how that goes. I bought this land so I had a place to hunt and it has become a bigger pain! But I smile when I'm hanging in a tree!!
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