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This really is a good spot to hunt, there's a herd of about 15 that beds down in the smaller lots that surround this piece, just have to be careful about the direction you shoot and where you set up for different wind. It's only about 18 acres of huntable land but there's an access logging road, the homeowner will drag anything we get out with his tractor, and it's only 2 miles from my house! I also grew up with his kids and spent a lot of time in his farm when I was young. Don't think I could do better!
 
Those slobs that steal stands are everwhere. It is interesting to note that usually bird/bow hunters etc dont usually carry bolt.cable cutters, at least I dont. Cable cutters are carried by criminals and should be treated as such.
 
Back when I had the old family place near Austin, folks would ask me what I was going to do on opening morning. I told them that it would be "Hoo, deer!" day.

"What? What's that?"

"Aw, I just drive all around the place in my Jeep at first light and on into the morning, hollering as loud as I can, "Hoooooo, deer!". Messes up the poachers."

Sometimes during the season I'd go the back side of my woods real early and sit and wait. Sure enough, I'd hear a fence wire creak as some poacher climbed over. I'd position myself appropriately and wait. Have you any idea how high a poacher can levitate when right in his ear somebody screams out, "GOOD MORNING!"?

I found that poachers are trainable little critters. Slow learners, generally, but they gave up on pestering my deer. :D
 
"Aw, I just drive all around the place in my Jeep at first light and on into the morning, hollering as loud as I can, "Hoooooo, deer!". Messes up the poachers."
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I had a great uncle (dairy farmer) who had trouble with folks poaching on his land (one idiot shot a prize milker), He finally set up a loudspeaker on an ATV and would send his son(s) to drive around playing "The Ride Of The Valkyries" (a la Apocalypse Now) just before sundown.
 
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Yea, not a bunch of 'brain surgeons'. Matters-of-fact, the poachers/slob hunters I`ve dealt with, I don`t think their family tree`s consist of very many branch`s.

One year during late, pre-rut, bow season I heard what sounded to be a symphany of rattling, grunting,snorting and wheezing just over a ridge. It was 2hrs. of non-stop excruciating noise that sounded more like a continuous car wreck than rattling for a buck:rolleyes:.
I`m 20ft. up in my climbing stand and this was just one of those things to comical to get mad over.

I sit until dark and here these two idiots come, headed straight for me.

Not only were they trespassing but these two clowns had a full grown Rottweiler with them.:confused:

I let them get right under my stand and yelled as loud as I could.

Think the dog even pee`d himself:D.

After some questioning and finding out a bit about them, I had to ask if they normally take the dog with them while bow hunting.

One`s reply was "yes, its a good cover scent".

IMO, these are the kind of people that should NEVER be allowed to breed, handle pointy/sharp objects or own firearms.
 
We have a small group that rents a huge piece of property, by eastern standards anyway. Had a lot of probelms with trespassing, spotlighting, etc.

So, we got the local game warden who lives about a mile from it to join the club. Worked wonders.:)
 
Here are some cut and pastes. The locals here are still rippin mad about it. This case also caused a change in hunting times from half hour after sunset to sunset.


Also in 1998, a hunter fatally shot conservation officer Spignesi while Spignesi and another conservation officer were checking for hunting violations in Scotland. The shooter was charged with second-degree manslaughter. He was acquitted after a jury trial.


The sadly ironic hunting accident award perhaps should go to
the case of Kevin P. O’Connell, who fatally shot James
Spignesi, Jr., a Connecticut Department of Conservation
officer, who was investigating O’Connell for illegal hunting
practices. Wearing camouflage clothing so as to avoid
detection, Spignesi and his partner were mistaken for deer by
O’Connell. The defense attorney convinced the jury that the
agents’ clothing choice absolved O’Connell of any
responsibility for Spignesi’s death. The jury took less than two
hours to return the not-guilty verdict.
 
The biggest threat that poachers pose is that they don't know where we are and we don't know where they are, somebody could get shot.

The camp is central with a couple dozen stands around it. At night everybody picks their stand for the morning hunt, same at lunch. This way everybody knows which stands are occupied and not to shoot in that general direction. Poachers don't have that information thus much more liable to being shot or to shoot someone else.

If I ever screw up I want that defense atty! I have yet to see a deer dressed in camo.
 
Your correct getting the permission, and acting nice. No need for nothing bad to happen over game. I try to stay away from other folks for everyones benifit. I think my odds are better being alone, or in your case with your daughter which I think is great. When I am hunting and I happen to see someone the first thing I do is unload, and leave the action open. Just so they can see I am a safe hunter, and nothing will ever get that bad. Then we work it out. Like the prior post said those G.P.S. systems and cell phones are great tools.
 
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