Trespasser pics
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I borrowed this topic from another forum, to which I have posted several pics to the topic over the years. Figured it would be nice to see what you guys have caught on your trail cameras.
This is what I found on one of my trail cams when I pulled the card yesterday.
We have no idea who this guy was. He showed up a couple time on the camera. My stand is in the tree behind him.
Walking with his finger on the trigger so I'm going to guess he never took a hunter safety class.
Must be a few grouse around Second Shot?
I just don't get people who do this. You know it's not your ground and you know you don't have permission. What in God's green earth would possess someone to go onto another person's property? I guess some of us were just raised differently.
After I escorted this guy off my property I endured a week of revving chainsaw noise, blowing horns, gunfire, and motorbikes. Then after the season , this pic.
With that kind of evidence, I would prosecute. That's for the first time. Come again at your own risk.
Bill be careful with that one yikes
season ticket wow get a new spot !!
That's nothing. I"ve got plenty, 100 acres all posted.Some people could just care less.
Season Ticket - What are your trespassing laws in MA? I would be giving these to the local law enforcement.
I can't believe they didn't take the camera's. Then again maybe they are to dumb to know what they are.
Plus we've found a few of these over the years.
as well as some of these...
Tried a camera on public land years ago. Had this guy come towards my camera....
And then try to steal it, while the camera took pictures and video!!
Wow...that really sucks!
Some go in under the "I ain't hurting nothin'," or "Well, I ain't hunting, just walking around." Kind of hard for the guys with the shotguns to claim that, though.
We have a problem on our land in Kansas, but I don't think it's as bad as you have it.
Good luck. Is there some place you can print and post the pictures?
A buddy had such a problem until he gave the local sheriff's deputy permission to do a few things on the property. It sure got patrolled a lot better after that.
Season Ticket, holy cow you must be right on the edge of town? I don't think I see that many people on the public land adjacent to my hunting property?
Non-hunting city people can be pretty.... ignorant... to trespassing laws. I have 2 wooded acres that my home is built on, not enough to hunt etc... but it's home. I kept seeing this little old lady walking her poodles thru the woods in my backyard so finally one day I confronted her about it. Her response was "these are woods, nobody owns the woods?!"
Unfortunately, it might take word of a trespassing conviction or two getting around before people realize your property is not the neighborhood nature walk/ATV park. You have a long road ahead of you, wow. Good Luck?!
BowSniper, that is exactly what I would picture a camera thief to look like. He's like the poster child of camera thieves.
Bowsniper, I can't get over the picture of that guy that tried to steal your camera. When I try to get a mental image of a person who would steal someone's trail camera, that's what I picture. Ratty old camo, pedo-stache, a bandana... It's almost like he read the script.
Holy cow Season Ticket! WOW.... Pretty popular piece of land you have there.
Not to mention the crossbow! I am sure many of your picture all camera thieves with crossbows. :)
And carrying a crossbow to boot... :)
Wow Season ticket, if that was happening on land I owned, I believe I'd sell it. No fun
Bowsniper. . . did you have your cam in a security housing or something? Locked on somehow?
Typical x-bow hunter. ;-)
Hey...zoom in on that guys face, the one with the crossbow....Looks like TBM!!
Crossbow hunters are so backwards they apparently can't figure out which direction a fanny pack goes either.
Is that guy out trying to high stick a deer?
Actually, if you look closely on his crossbow sling, you can see TBM embroidered on it. It's misspelled, of course, and so it says TMB, but it's there.
Looking at some of these guys...I'd be scared to hunt back there!
OK, not only is the hockey stick strange, but WTH is in the bucket? Those look like ears on a hat or mask. A bucket of body parts?
In my case, the ratty crossbow guy was just incredibly stupid. The camera was an old 1.3 Cuddeback, the type with the simple cable that is held under the cover with a wing nut, and a small lock on the case bottom. He just utterly baffled by the cable not being directly connected to the lock. And he was clueless that the camera was taking his video as he stared at the lens and looked all around the tree trying to unravel the cable mystery! Will try to post one of the video clips to BowhuntingTV...
I use to have problems with a few neighbors that trespassed.
But after I went on a couple of lunatic fringe tirades against them, they don't even come close to the property line now.
Word got back to me from another neighbor that when I went on my tirade the trespassers thought I had rabies. LOL LOL
Time to string out some barbed wire for the don't-belong-in-the-hunting - woods damn 4 wheelers. As for the ones on foot set up some sort of trap. Just sayin'
You don't want to do that... I could never forgive myself if I permanently disabled or killed someone just for trying to have some fun, even if they were trespassing on my property. It happens all the time around here. I have a creek that runs through my woods and 4 wheelers ride along the creek all the time. Not much I can do to stop it. It's mostly neighbor kids. It doesn't bother the deer. They're used to it. I've been hunting in my stand watching a deer that wasn't even 60 yards from the ditch. A kid came riding by on a 4 wheeler. The deer just watched him ride by and then went back to feeding like it never even happened. You don't want to hurt somebody over something like that. Especially if it's some 14 or 15 year old kid.
I understand what your saying buckeye the thought of booby trapping my hunting land has crossed my mind due to trespassers I didn't for the same reasons you mention.... But my house yard and shop are a diffrent story my shop hasn't been broken into since it was a pretty common occurance before that though turned out to be my cousins boyfriend deck screws through both feet taught him a powerful lesson.
Careful with the booby-traps. It's a good way to lose your property, or at least a truck-load of money or end up in Jail.
...and what if it's one of those kids following their trespassing dads in?
Looks like these trespassers would walk behind the camera.
You don't want to injure anyone. Where atvs are going through I would drop some trees across the trail. I'd get the police or sheriff involved. Once one or two get procedures word ought to get out. Its crazy how people get about someone else's property that they have trespassed on for years. They thinks its theirs and are incensed that anyone would stop them. Maybe a little booby trap that would spray them with skunk juice. That would be classic.
Wow! Just WOW!!! Just seeing these pictures makes my blood pressure sky-rocket. I hate trespassers as much as I hate poachers. I have had to deal with way too many of both.
There's a lot of people on here that get bent out of shape over people posting property so they can't hunt on that persons property. How'd these people in the picture like it if you drove up on there front yard to have lunch and listen to your radio cranked up? It's usually people that don't own property that are the biggest offenders.
I can't drop trees across the creek. The gov't requires that I keep it cleared. They also spray it for weeds twice a year. Besides, I ride my own quad along the creek. There are only 2 people that own the land on our whole square mile. Our families have been friends for decades since well before I was born. We'll never sell it either. It goes back to my great grandpa. We allow each other access to the creek to get from point A to point B. Nobody else should be riding the creek. We have a total of 140 continuous acres of woods between the 2 families. We hunt each other's woods as if they were our own. We always ask first to make sure we're not stepping on somebody's toes, but if we find a strange treestand, we call the neighbor. If it doesn't belong to him or somebody he knows, it gets taken down and put in the barn. If somebody wants to come claim their treestand, they'll have to talk to me first. It hasn't happened yet, but It wouldn't go well. I've acquired several nice treestands this way. Don't get me started on coon hunters. They think they own every woods. I'm yet to call a sheriff, but I've met them at their truck before. At first they're a little honked off when you're sitting in the bed of their truck on their dog boxes, but when you ask them what the hell they're doing in your woods and offer to call the sheriff to sort things out, they settle down real quick. Especially if you've already written down their plate #'s.
Part of the problem is years ago a kid could walk any woods they wanted. No permission needed. Nowdays things have changed. Might take a while for people to realize that.
Season ticket you have to tell us what this is near! train tracks,shopping mall? those pictures are scary!
How long does it take for a video to actually appear on bowhunting TV after being submitted??
No kidding?! A short cut to a pawn shop?
This sickens and angers me. People are so stupid to think that they can do anything they want.
Two words Gamo whisper pellet gun Ghille suit
"dang that hornet sting hurts"
badlander, Bake & Nick Muche , it's just on the edge of town. A piece that I lease from a good friend, only him and I hunt it. It's an 100 acre parcel, all posted.
DL & Knife2sharp, looks like a pair of ice skates in the bucket. There is a tiny pond on the property and I think it was one of the neighbors thinking it was frozen.
idacurt, it's bordered by a farm alongside a major divided highway as well as a cranberry bog, another farm and a rural road.
5/8" roofing nails will stop the atv's.
Season, put up a cable, more posted signs, then prosecute when you do get pictures. It is like your land is in a transit zone for town people.
Those guys on the atv's aren't innocent. Hit them in their pocket and they will go away.
There was a guy here that shot and killed a 15 year old boy 3 years ago. The boy had repeatedly been told to stop trespassing, running his atv through his pastures, tearing up his hay fields etc.. Instead of adhering to the advice, he progressed his intentional assault on the guys property, to only run from him when the man approached. No police agency wanted to deal with it. The boy's parents thought the man was being unreasonable. Everywhere this an turned for help, it fell on deaf ears until he shot the boy with a 243 as he tried to run from him.
There were many mixed feelings locally but, the bottom line is right, is right. While it is sad, some people don't listen until things get rough. Protect yourself and your property. Let someone get hurt on it and see who is responsible if you don't address this.
God Bless and good luck.
Most states have "berry picking" laws that protect landowners against trespassers being hurt while on landowners' property... That being said, it still is absolutely no excuse for trespassing on posted property where there is no excuse. I have a no tolerance rule whereas I prosecute anyone who I can catch. Once the word gets out, which it will, there will be a huge reduction... Good luck. Here's a tool I recently got on camera, but is still "at large" in more ways than one... Looks like he needs to focus more on mountain biking harder?!
Season Ticket, what town is this in MA? I would absolutely freak out and press charges. In MA you would definitely win in a court case if its private land.
"Part of the problem is years ago a kid could walk any woods they wanted. No permission needed."
The problem is the parents of those kids failing to teach right from wrong and how to ask for permission, and then suing the landowners when their trespassing kids get hurt on that property...
we had horrible trespassing problems for the first three years we leased until I posted these signs up! It was like overnight it stopped!!!
(SMILE YOUR ON CAMERA)
Seasonticket- Are you hunting behind a city park?
Why not post pictures of these tresspassers at the local diner asking patrons for help in identifying them? Perhaps shaming these tresspassers in public may help curb their wandering.
For those of you who advocate putting up cables, nails or other way of hurting someone or an ATV etc,be aware you are opening yourself up to some serious consequences. I certainly understand how you feel and those thoughts have gone through my mind.
Several years ago an older gentleman here in Kansas could not keep teenagers from riding ATVs and motorcycles on his property. He had contacted law enforcement, but the problem persisted. So he put up a cable. The next time the teenagers came onto his property one of the riders hit a cable that was strung at neck level and was killed. The landowner was convicted of a felony and did prison time. I assume he also had to live with knowledge that he caused a young man's death. The bottom line if you do something that causes injury to person or damage to property you could be in big trouble.
That one guy looks like a spooky Santa. YIKES!
Seasonticket, you should just put up a toll booth! Looks like you would rake in some serious dough!!!
"Is it me, or do some of you guys have illegal immigrants traipsing thru your property?"
Don't know. Never had one hold up their green card in front of my camera.
No such thing as "illegal immigrants." They are properly called "future voters for the Democratic Party!"
WV Mountaineer, we don't have a cable, but the owner and I put up a gate.
Perhaps it's my fault, I probably could have made it more visible and posted it better? :)
Season ticket,
If you are not the owner, not really your issue.
I see this often, someone leases or otherwise gains permission for some activity then annoys everyone, including the landowner about the activity of others. Many landowners do not care. If they do, let them deal with it.
First of, the owner hunts there with me. I help him post it, and maintain it every year. This Spring someone cut down about 100' of barb wire along one of the boundaries and pulled down all the POSTED signs. I helped him re-post it and string up some new wire. he doesn't want them there anymore than I do.
And as far is it not being my issue, it's my stands and my cameras that are at risk.
Here is what I posted on the other forum to give you an idea what we put up with around here:
"When I walked West up the South boundary to look for sign and set up a couple of more cameras for hunting season, I was beginning to think I was loosing my mind, as I couldn't find the barb wire fence. I know the woods are thick this time of year, but I was pretty certain I was in the right place. Much to my surprise, I found that someone had cut the 50+ year old barb wire down and removed all the POSTED signs! I immediately called the land owner and he wasn't very happy for some strange reason.
So, we spent most of today running new barbwire through the thick chit, re-posted it all, put up multi-color ribbons (really makes it visible 360* all times of the year) and then sprayed the barbwire orange, Curious to see what happens and if I get anyone on camera. I don't get it, some people are phucked. I am amazed that some one would actually cut down all that barbwire and remove the signs on top."
It wasn't an easy job, but hopefully someone gets the message, but I highly doubt it.
Here is a pic of what it looks like from last hunting season. You can see the old barb wire in the bottom of the pic.
Trust me, it's frustrating.
There is a you tube video of a trespasser triggering a trip wire, and getting blasted with a large dose of blue paint....it got his face, glasses, clothes, and gun. I Wouldn't want to deal with the potential legal fallout, but one helluva video to watch!!!!
ST, just a thought. Maybe a sign stating that trail camera pictures will be used to prosecute, or something like that, may be better than posted signs?
Whoever is doing this really does not care.
My fear there, is that they will now look for the cameras and either steal them or destroy them.
I had a neighbor who's kids rode dirt bikes through my yard, I asked him nicely twice if he would put a stop to it. One day I had enough and drove my ranger down to his house and spun a couple doughnuts in his yard, surprisingly that ended the problem. I have no use for people that do not respect other people's property.
Sureshot..had a little chuckle at that one...
sdbowhunter its a shame folks still didnt have to wear their license on their back you could have busted several folks for trespassing and poaching
In south Dakota we don't have to wear our licenses on our back. The shame is that we don't pheasant hunt on our property where we bow hunt but others seem to take it on their selves to go ahead and do it for us romping thru all our stuff around our stands an cover for us. If I could find out who they are I would be more than happy and on the phone so fast to the authorities with the evidence and pressing charges.
SD,
As these people trespass, how close are they walking to one of your posted signs?
Someone found my camera... at least they didn`t steal or damage it. I moved it just in case they came back...
walk right by it maybe 2-5 feet to enter into the trees
This would give me a heart attack!
That was an hilarious video. God Bless
I keep watching that video. My face is tired from smiling.
The sense of entitlment these folks have is staggering.
Thanks for the link. That was awesome!
I read about that last year and was surprised to see this about the incident:
I wish I could get some pictures of the people trespassing on our family plot. But they are wiping our memory cards clear and then smashing our cameras. Why they don't just take them I don't know. But they all end up face down smashed to hell and zero pictures on our cards which never happens. We have had this place for 20 years and never had problems until this last year.
That sucks!I hope you catch the bastards. Use one of your damaged cameras as a trap and set up a camera to take pics of them destroying the dummy camera. Move them higher up and conceal them better. Bring a cordless and screw branches to the tree around them if you have to. Holly trees and pines work well as you can cut a hole thru the branches for the camera.
Unfortunately we are pretty much all brush. No real trees. A few here and there but not many. I'll catch them sooner or later. I have my suspicions but so far they have been very slippery. I do have some cameras set up in out of the way spots trying to get pics of them walking around. Trying to figure out where they are crossing our fence as they are not doing it at the gates.
That video doesn't look hilarious at all. After reading the article, it looks like a dick move on the part of the guy who set the trap. You're really going to use an explosive device to blast paint in the face of an elderly man that's walking down a logging road that he's been using for decades that's 8ft on your property? Even if he was trespassing, there are better ways of going about stopping it than that.
To sum it all up: 
Than I'm an a**hole and I'm okay with that. Makes me believe your one of those who thinks because it's always been that way it's yours to use. Had those problems for years on my properties. Used many methods to deal with it. This one is one of the best I've seen. Stay off my property. This guy admits he's been doing this and it's OK! Bu##sh##!!! He got just what he deserved an less. Like our government just taking our rights. Trespassers are criminals.
Than I'm an a**hole and I'm okay with that. Makes me believe your one of those who thinks because it's always been that way it's yours to use. Had those problems for years on my properties. Used many methods to deal with it. This one is one of the best I've seen. Stay off my property. This guy admits he's been doing this and it's OK! Bu##sh##!!! He got just what he deserved an less. Like our government just taking our rights. Trespassers are criminals.
my guess is that guy in the video wouldn't think twice about shooting a deer that's well onto the other persons property while he's helping himself to the convenience of a road that he has no legal right to be on....there's lots of scary stuff in the woods that makes your heart race when you get surprised by it, if he's that fragile maybe he shouldn't be out hunting.
Trevore - if they are smashing your cameras I would say try one of those cellular cams that instantly send the picture to a website and your phone. That way so matter what happens to the camera, you get the last images of the criminal. Then prosecute.
For guys who choose a more active deterrent, a good triggering device is a spring clothespin. Put bare wire around both ends of the clothespin, and separate the wires with a loose wood shim. The tripwire (fishing line) goes to the wood shim. When trip wire is hit, it pulls the wood shim away and allows the wires on the clothespin to touch, completing the circuit. Triggers whatever electronic device you connect (lights, horn, etc.). I suppose you could also connect those Estes Rocket motor fuses, to launch a signal rocket... or whatever...
IF the old guy was told not to do it I can't be very concerned for him. The only thing I would have done is load the bomb with permanent dye, that way when I confronted him there would be no denying it. Around here we don't have much trouble, but a few like to think they can go wherever they want until they are prosecuted. Cost 1 fella over $400 and he won't be back.
I have no problem with it, but then again, if it's POSTED, I don't trespass either.
What does it being POSTED have to do with anything? I have never understood that mentality.
If property is POSTED, it's a DO NOT ENTER SIGN. What does "mentality" have to do with it?
I think his thought was no property, whether posted with signs or not, should be entered onto by anyone unless permission has been granted. I have had issues with people coming onto my wife's and my property to fish our private pond. When confronted, they always respond with something along the lines of, "Well we didn't see any signs saying we couldn't." This even though the signs are there.
Whatever the case, trespassers are scum!
If you watch the video again you will see the sign in it. The old guy never paid attention to it. It is about 10 feet before the "trap".
That fella complains the landowner never told him he couldn't walk the road. However, I just wander if he is dense. Isn't a posted sign the warning you need not to do as you wish without the landowners permission? Bottom line is, the guy that got painted just didn't acknowledge the landowners right. 8 feet today, become 300 yards by next year with most people. I have ZERO remorse for the fella. None. He KNEW he was trespassing against the owner's wish and decided to do it anyway.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about these landowner disputes. I own land and allow fellow owners to hunt through and use it as there's. As they do for me. As time has gone by, new owners have come and gone on one side. They don't feel the same about free use for all. It kinda irritates me to see a great thing of come and go as you will, destroyed for a lot of people because one person is content to lock themselves away from being neighborly but, it is their's to do as they wish. So, we all honor it but enforce that boundary stringently. If that's the way they want it, that's the way they get it.
God Bless
NEBuck, my apologies to TurkeyFoot if that is what he meant. WVMountainer, it used to be that way around here, but the privilege has been abused over the years. With the advent of charging to dispose at local dumps, people use the small amount of wooded areas to dispose of their junk, anything from tires, to couches to remodeling debris from their homes. Add to that all the littering of beer cans and bottles, people riding dirt bikes through food plots, (look back at some of my pics)cutting down barb wire fences for access, removing sections of stone wall so they can get their Quad in so they don't have to drag their deer, destroying personal property, stealing game cams and tree stands, etc, etc, etc. I had another piece of property locally that I had permission to hunt with a friend and we caught a guy hunting on Sundays(illegal in MA, he was up in a tree stand as we were cutting some new shooting lanes)as well hunting with a handgun during archery season!
No problem, thanks Pat, much appreciated.
I showed the pic to the landowner and he recognized one of the group as a neighbor down the road. He was going to talk to them and then after a few minutes, he opted not too. Figured it would be a waste of time. He has had problems with them in the past and he said they will deny it to the end. He said that if he showed them the pics they would still say that it isn't them and then they would go looking for the cameras as well as stands and any other property and vandalize it. If you notice to the left of that pic, my stand is in the back.as of now, they haven't noticed them or the cameras and I prefer to leave it that way. He proceeded to tell me how he caught a couple of the neighbors hunting on his land and after a serious confrontation they left. When he arrived the next morning, there was a Doe's head on his gatepost. What i would like to know, is what are they doing heading into the woods at that time when sunset is less than 30 minutes away? Here they are on another camera the same afternoon:
Ankle height fishing line with a flash bang grenade in a can on the end of it.
Sounds like the penalty for trespassing should be really stiff to detour this kind of behavior. First time a big fine, second time jail?
String this across trails where they cross for quite a distance on both sides. If need be tape a smooth wire to it to keep it in place. Then put up cameras to photo them tearing it down. Take pictures to police showing them vandalizing private property. The more I'm reading the more pissed it makes me.
"Part of the problem is years ago a kid could walk any woods they wanted. No permission needed."
Forty years ago when things were this way, my dad was one of the few asking permission. Because of his actions I have access to 2000 acres that noone else does, that I wouldn't otherwise. I have had land owners tell me " you can always hunt, your dad would ask permission every year even when he knew he didn't have too". I am reaping the reward of my dads common courtesy that wasn't all that common. I hope my kids can say the same of me one of these days.
Don K, when my stuff was stolen the Sunday before opening day I was more than pissed. I went back and put signs up on the trees where my stuff was, and every single sign has my name number and a neutral place to meet to get my stuff back. I only wish I had. 3rd camera they missed........ And could ID him/her.
One reason I no longer own land. AND the reason I no longer have anywhere to hunt ! Everything is now off limits to EVERYONE!.... well except I guess the trespassers.... they still hunt wherever they want and never get more than a slap on the wrist for it when prosecuted!
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My dad did the same thing. We even asked permission from the farmers that my brothers and I worked for during the summer. We did this just so they knew who was on their land and didn't have to go check.
Here is a pic of my ex wife of 7 years with her Lawyer and auctioneer to put a price tag on everything I own. She got over half and the Lawyer is driving a new Lincoln Navigator!
This should always be brought back to the top---just in case somebody recognizes these trespassing scum. Surely there are more examples than this.
Trespassing is wrong, no excuse. But to build a bomb? You have to be kidding me! That landowner needs a visit from the ATF. What if a child walked by and lost a eye or hearing possibly got killed. did he get what he deserved? Some of you guys that agree with this need to think about it.
OK Aaron, you win. That's the scariest pic yet!!!
Trust me, I feel your pain.
My friend was hunting public land near an Indian Reservation. He found an old trip wire booby trap. 3/4 inch pipe mounted on a piece of wood attached to a tree. The 6' pipe had a screw in cap with a hole drilled in it. A shotgun shell was put in the pipe and cap screwed on. A cut off nail was put in the cap hole and a rat trap was attached to fire the round. A trip wire was attached to the trigger and the bail would strike the nail when the trap was set off. It was live when he found it. Didn't know if there was pot growing nearby or if it was meant to kill an animal. He took it and got out of there.
eddie bauer,
if a child lost an eye? it wasn't a bomb, it was an airbag device.
I love the idea. stay off my land don't get painted.
"Patrolled by Sherwin Williams!" lol that's classic
mn archer, A air bag is a explosive device. Look into it you might learn something.
try signs that say GO BACK AREA infected with LYMES Disease or Anthrax Or a sign that says FORGET ABOUT IT !!!! this land owned by the Gambino's Crew
To c rete a trP to induce harm to a trespasser is a felony in almost every state.
Countries is going to HE##. Laws to protect the criminals and to heck with law abiding citizens that are trying to protect whats theirs. People used to understand that trespassers were the criminals. People no longer have right to protect whats theirs. Shame what this country has come to and where it is going. Feel bad for my children and grandchildren. By the way nice sympathy try with a kid could lose an eye or hearing. Right away typical liberal ploy, show pictures of kids or puppies. Lame!
AaronShort> A good reason to transfer ownership of your possessions if a divorce is eminent. Worked for me; ex didn't get anything but a few dollars I left in a joint bank account.
I never imagined the Judge would hand her half value of every deer, elk,hog,ect I have on my wall. Plus every item I own. She also claimed I was hiding $200K from a word of mouth/ cash only taxidermy business. For the first time being honest didn't pay off. I guess I will give her and her lawyer one thing, they both are good thieves.
Get a drone helicopter. Chase them out with this.
That's hilarious DL. I bet it would work too.
However, according to a few here, children don't deserve to be scared.
My Dad put a trailcam next to our driveway at his hunting cabin in NH. Posted and No Trespassing signs and have pics of several cars and a bowhunter walking through our yard. Will be sharing pics of that jackwagon soon.
Just glad he didn't take the camera! Obviously he saw it!
Just came back from Maine and this is what I found on the cameras: :(
I have fences cut and people on 4 wheelers etc and sometimes they show up on cam. It is absurd what some people will do and how they justify it.. Found one guy in my blind once.
2 years ago a guy cut my fence and then drove past my cam. I followed his tracks to the fence once I saw the pic and then I followed those tracks 2 miles right near his house. He fired up that 4 wheeler and I knew right where he lived then and walked over and sure enough it was the same guy with his GF. He claimed he thought it was the gas companies fence. LMAO. I was like really dude? WTH difference does it make who's fence you thought it was? He agreed to fix it and the only reason I didn't call the cops was only because before he knew that I knew it was him he openly admitted it. I guess there is something to be said for the truth. In the end I was given permanent rights as long as he lives there to hunt that 20 acres he owns if I want to. I don't because it sucks and I can barley hunt the area I hunt now.
I will say there should be a law on some things though. If you shoot a deer and it hops the fence and dies just off your land the owner of said land should not be able to prevent you from recovering your deer in a reasonable and non-destructive way. I have had 2 occasions I have seen where deer were not allowed to be recovered after the deer hopped the fence on its death run. IMO that's an Jerk hunter or property owner that acts that way.
Matt Anderson - Someone needs to show that guy how to pack up his climber.
haha I'd like to show him the bottom of my size 12!
Season Ticket, you must live in a highly populated area were the neighbors feel they have free right to roam your property, can't you prosecute any of them? I would if it was possible. Pic's should be used to do so.
Season Ticket,
Looks like in the 2nd picture she is looking up at your stand?
I live in a highly populated area on a 150 farm that has been in the family for many generations. My family has always been extremely friendly with neighbors using the farm, but as the area has built up and neighbors change every few years it gets ridiculous. The property is posted. I run into trespassers just about every time I hunt, it blows. Were in an area with a bunch of horse farms around, this past year we realized that one neighbor, a horse boarding farm that is only on about 13 acres was advertising "abundant trail riding" and caught them giving riding lessons on our farm several times. Then there's the dozen or so "neighbors" that walk their dogs several times a week off leash. And another dozen or so that ride their horses whenever they please. And another two or 3 that go jogging/running. Then they wonder why I get so pissed when they "just want to walk my dog in your woods"
It's the suburbs... so people travel to open public land and then sneak around gates and fences on private posted property like it's their own.
Yeah, she is looking at my stand as well as a drag that was forgotten in a tree the previous afternoon.
We had a major issue with trespassers this year. Back in July they cut the latch off the only access gate. They must have had a portable cutting torch or a high powered saws all. They stole 7 stands, a pop-up blind and a couple of feeders. They also stole a pickup truck from somewhere, drove it to a big pond in the center of the property and stripped it. We found the frame sitting on blocks. Our landowner doesn't allow us on the property until August. It's off limits to us from the end of deer season, Jan. 15th, until Sept. 30th. One of the guys on our lease drove past the gate in July on his way to a job site. He advised the landowner and the landowner did nothing for 3 weeks. He just left the gate open. Landowner had no cattle in that area of the ranch so he just didn't care. Finally, we called the landowner and offered to fix the gate and he agreed. We did this out of our own pocket. These a-hole thieves spent A LOT of time on the property. Some of the stands they stole they had to really search for and were only accessible via 4wheeler. At the end of deer season this year, we are going to put up multiple trail cameras at the gate in hopes of catching these slugs. Last year, they cut a fence where the property meets the county road at a big electrical transmission power line right of way. They drove heavy equipment onto the property and stole 5 old oil field pumping units. This was no easy task and took a lot of time. I guess they wanted them for the scrap metal. To get this stuff, they had to know right where it was. Since this equipment had been abandoned for a long time, it had become the property of the landowner. It had value but the landowner but he didn't seem to care. They did it twice, they will likely do it again when we are not out there. Thieves should be hanged!
I agree Stinkbait, hang 'em all. I hate phukin thieves!
Sometimes landowners know the thieves are relatives or friends and do not want LE involved. As a non landowner, not much you can do without backing other than not lease it.
