NOTHING warms my heart more than Trespassing Slob Hunters.......

[ultrarunner]

It must be awfully dam hard to respect someones property, TheMan419. The neighbor allows hunters - I have always allowed a few. The neighbor does not allow any type of motorized vehicle on his property. The hunters have been using my gate to access his property with pickups & ATVs. This presents several problems - many who are not "authorized" have come thru my gate and hunted the neighbors property. Many who ARE authorized drive thru my gate and drive their pickups/ATVs on the neighbors property. They all drive their pickups/ATVs thru my gate and drive on his property. My gate has alway had a large No Trespassing sign on it. Then to top it all off, the hunters will cause damage to my driveway and the neighbors property with their vehicles.

This year I gave up trying to control this situation. Starting a week before hunting season and until it ends, there is a large chain & lock on my gate.

It really chaps my hide that I have to lock my gate to control this situation. I can see by the "burn-out" marks outside the gate that it must irritate many who would prefer to tresspass. Both me & the neighbor have talked to the hunters and asked that they not use my gate to access his property with their vehicles - it has done absolutely no good. This is one of the reasons so much land is being closed to hunting.

Life goes on.........

I will be sure to call ahead... if you see someone at the gate with California plates don't shoot first... ;-)

 

[roadhunter]

Guess they took the hint, didn't show up today.

So question for the group, I want to know what you think of this:

Today, my wife talked to the neighbors and they said that after the early Oct. incident, they talked to the TSHs and told them to stay off my property (like that was going to do any good). The interesting thing they said was that the TSH said that after this year, they wouldn't be back next year.

Note that this was said at least two weeks before I implemented my Anti-Trespassing Policy (which started just yesterday).

So what conclusion(s) do you draw from that statement (underlined above)? After I hear from some people here, I'll tell you what I conclusions I draw from it.

And thanks for the supportive comments, I appreciate it!

My guess is it had little to do with what you did and had more to do with them not having a good hunt. I simply cannot understand how someone with such little land could possibly charge people to hunt. With such small pieces of land the deer must be really good at jumping fences every few hundred yards. I guess since they probably can't walk more than a hundred yards from the pickup or shoot more than a hundred yards it works for them.

My gripe is the lazy azz hunters who drive thier 4 wheelers in areas where they are not supposed to. Now all these hunters who don't exercise thing it is their god given right to drive a 4 wheeler anywhere they please. I know of a 4 wheeler that was back in a roadless area over the weekend. Next year I am going to put in a game camera and turn them in as they hunt the same place every year. The mean side of me thought about flattening tires when I drove by on my way out tonight after carrying a heavy pack out of the same area they illegally drove into.

Hunters are like contractors, loggers, and lawyers. There are a few good ones but for the most part they earn their reputation.

 

[bcp]

My gripe is the lazy azz hunters who drive thier 4 wheelers in areas where they are not supposed to. Now all these hunters who don't exercise thing it is their god given right to drive a 4 wheeler anywhere they please. I know of a 4 wheeler that was back in a roadless area over the weekend. Next year I am going to put in a game camera and turn them in as they hunt the same place every year. The mean side of me thought about flattening tires when I drove by on my way out tonight after carrying a heavy pack out of the same area they illegally drove into.

I read an article long ago in which a backback hunter ran across an ATV far into a roadless/wilderness area as far as it could go, with no one around, so he shot it.

Bruce

 

[roadhunter]

I read an article long ago in which a backback hunter ran across an ATV far into a roadless/wilderness area as far as it could go, with no one around, so he shot it.

Bruce

I love hearing stories like this. 4 wheelers have ruined the hunting in many places.

Hunters are out of control. Even trespassing to shed hunt has gotten out of control. It's just ridiculous.

 

[2ndhalf]

I love hearing stories like this. 4 wheelers have ruined the hunting in many places.

Hunters are out of control. Even trespassing to shed hunt has gotten out of control. It's just ridiculous.

That's one way to look at it.. but consider this. If the ATV belonged to an old man 70+ who rode it there because he couldn't even begin to walk it and you just disabled his only means of transportation out of there... you just bagged yourself an antlerless old guy.

I'm not sure that a death sentence is warranted here. I would think twice before doing something that radicle and equally illegal.. actually a lot more illegal.

 

[roadhunter]

That's one way to look at it.. but consider this. If the ATV belonged to an old man 70+ who rode it there because he couldn't even begin to walk it and you just disabled his only means of transportation out of there... you just bagged yourself an antlerless old guy.

I'm not sure that a death sentence is warranted here. I would think twice before doing something that radicle and equally illegal.. actually a lot more illegal.

LOL. Bagged an antlerless old guy???? He shot the 4 wheeler not the person driving the 4 wheeler.

There are plenty of legal places to go ride 4 wheelers. The age or mobility of the driver is not the issue. The issue is riding a 4 wheeler in a wilderness or roadless area where 4 wheelers are not allowed. That is illegal doesn't matter if you are 100+, disabled, handicapped, and a vet. It's still illegal.

How much wilderness do you have in Ohio?

 

[FTG-05]

My conclusion would be that you affectively altered the TSH's hunting location decision by not allowing them to be on your land. They only came all that way to hunt your land but used the other property as a front and a parking spot. Good riddens to them and good job!

Bingo!

The only thing that changed is that they can no longer trespass freely on my land.

Now, I hope to speed their decision up a couple months; like maybe this next weekend.

I just installed this last week with the help of a friend. I call it my "Taj Mahal".



And in this shot, you can pretty much see all the land that the TSH "hunt" on; it's the green area in the background; you can just barely see the neighbor's house upper right:

 

[2ndhalf]

LOL. Bagged an antlerless old guy???? He shot the 4 wheeler not the person driving the 4 wheeler.

There are plenty of legal places to go ride 4 wheelers. The age or mobility of the driver is not the issue. The issue is riding a 4 wheeler in a wilderness or roadless area where 4 wheelers are not allowed. That is illegal doesn't matter if you are 100+, disabled, handicapped, and a vet. It's still illegal.

How much wilderness do you have in Ohio?

Well I think you just missed my point. I'm saying if the old guy were on that quad, would you still shoot him for being there on a quad. Maybe a vet.. apparently doesn't matter to you?

If you shoot the quad of a guy that old that far into the wilderness you just killed him.

I don't mean any offense here I just picture my 75 year old dad who calls his quad his legs because he spent 40 years on a factory floor and his feet are shot. If he were even 5 miles in would probably not make it out without his quad.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I usually am not pro regulation as we have too many already but: My county is mixed urban and rural. I live in the rural part. It is nice to not have the problems you all are discussing. We have a law that bans firearm discharge on property less than 5 AC. Hunting therefore is limited to land plots over 5 AC and limited to bow and arrow and shotguns. My 20 AC backs up to 40 AC with no improvements on it for 30,000 feet over the hill. After my neighbor and I logged the 60 AC he made the mistake of allowing a gippo guy to collect firewood from the slash piles and had lots problems. The loggers and I discussed all the small non market trees and large limbs laying all over. Decided to leave it lay to deter the off-roaders. The next fall I had an ATV come roaring off the hillside and confronted him in my back yard. He said don't worry we will not be back here any more, too much stumps and logs hidden in the grass and brush. His ATV looked like it. Have never seen or heard one since.

 

[FTG-05]

My guess is it had little to do with what you did and had more to do with them not having a good hunt. I simply cannot understand how someone with such little land could possibly charge people to hunt. With such small pieces of land the deer must be really good at jumping fences every few hundred yards. I guess since they probably can't walk more than a hundred yards from the pickup or shoot more than a hundred yards it works for them.

My gripe is the lazy azz hunters who drive thier 4 wheelers in areas where they are not supposed to. Now all these hunters who don't exercise thing it is their god given right to drive a 4 wheeler anywhere they please. I know of a 4 wheeler that was back in a roadless area over the weekend. Next year I am going to put in a game camera and turn them in as they hunt the same place every year. The mean side of me thought about flattening tires when I drove by on my way out tonight after carrying a heavy pack out of the same area they illegally drove into.

Hunters are like contractors, loggers, and lawyers. There are a few good ones but for the most part they earn their reputation.

It had a lot to do with what I did: they can no longer freely trespass onto my land to either retrieve and/or hunt deer.

And the stupid thing is that they had a pretty good deal here: The owner didn't charge them (at least that's what they told us, don't know if it's true). There's tons of deer around, so much so they're nothing more than 100 lb rats. And they had their tree stand very well positioned; even from my house over 425 yards away, you can deer come out of the woods right near it.

The only two downsides was the $305 TN Non Resident Deer License (assuming they paid it) and of course, the 1 1/2 hour drive one way.

If they had been even half smart and respectful instead of trespassing (and violating TN state game laws (but that's another discussion)) and asked for permission, they could have ridden this gravy train for years.

Dummies!