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I hunt two farms in Alabama my family owns and I am a member of a hunting club a couple of miles down the road from the house I catch someone one one farm nearly every time I hunt it. We have had several treestands stolen I even caught one guy hunting out of a stand that was my dads stand that got stolen a couple of years back. The fine for tresspassing is so cheap these guys can pay it cheaper than they can lease or buy land and if they dont get caught they hunt for free. I want the lawmakers to slap about a 5000.00 fine on hunting without permission. It would have to help if a few of these Worthless [email]B@^%$%d's[/email] wages were garnished.

Tried calling the game warden?

tried that like a said they dont mind paying the fine

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ya gotta get some stuff going like we have here. Kid shot a buck in Sept supposedly. Illegal and all. He can loose his truck, gear in it, gun, license, and pay a fine. On top of that the restitution for the buck, due to size, is 10,800.00 dollars alone.
Jeff

Does your state DNR have a "hot-line" to report that sort of thing?

We prosecute the survivors.

With a little use of the imagination, I think one could make life quite uncomfortable for trespassers. We have a famous local who holds his privacy in high regard on some prime (private) elk ground. His practice involves blind siding the trespassers, sticking a 45 firmly in their ear, relieving them of their firearms,inviting them to leave, and placing the guns at his front gate for recovery. The ground is well signed, although that's not truly required here in Oregon. A few complaints have been voiced, but he's well within his rights, and has virtually no trespassing issues now.

Another tangent might be just solitarily walking past while loudly delivering an emotional lecture on how the Germanic tribes were screwed out of their lands during the early iron age. Then fire a shot or two into the trees each time a precisely delivered expletive seems appropriate. Your might do a few tight circles from time to time, bang your head on a tree or two, walk backwards, then scratch you head and go forward again, and dig a couple of holes and bury a couple of fist sized rocks. Never lock eyes with the individual or acknowledge his presence. Just pass on by and clear the next horizon as the lecture continues. One or two similar encounters will convince them you're a few bricks short of a full load and few will venture onto your property again as the word gets around. Disgusting nudity and big mean or big friendly dogs can work too. 1Minute

Poison all the deer, no deer no poachers..........

They got there by vehicle almost certainly. It would be a shame and a tragedy if anything were to happen to that vehicle.

You reminded me of friend who enlisted my help a few years ago.

Called me on the phone, asking if I would help him drag a calf to a hole he had dug in the woods with his tractor scoop.

Without getting into the rehearsal he had me do, he had a dead calf wrapped in a tarp. Seems he had been out that morning and spotted a pickup parked he knew belonged to some guys that he already knew about. Did a little scouting, found where they were hunting deer, without them being aware of him.

He slipped out, and went back to the house and called me. In the meantime he went out and tied some old gum boots he had to the legs of the calf so they wouldn't come off.

Our job was too drive back through field where the trespassers were, and dig a hole (the one he already had dug) where one of them would be sure to see and watch. I was to help him drag the tarp covered body to the hole and bury it. Should mention he fired his '06 in the ground at the garage while I was on the way to his house. We had hauled the "body" out on tractor and flat bed trailer down the edge of woods. Hoping of course the one guy would get a good look at tarp and the boots flopping around on the trailer.

We got it done, body buried, escape good and my last instructions were to drive as hard I could on the gravel road by the woods "making my escape".

He called me when got home, and told me he hauled large round bale back there on tractor and sit on top of the grave, in case they got nosy and poked around. Course I was laughing on the way home, and laughing harder when he told about the bale thing.

Now neither of us course got no real idea of the impression the episode really made. But my friend told me he never seen that truck around the neighborhood after that. We were kind of hoping some cops would show up checking it out, but never did.

Ain't it awful what some people will do to others, NOT, LOL!!!

We had an incident on public land with a local guy who didn't understand the meaning of PUBLIC land. He cut down a tree stand that we had taken several deer out of and built a stand of his own 15 feet away! We ran into him the night before deer season and he told us he knew nothing about it, and questioned what we were doing on his property. The funny thing about this was that we were standing on a well marked public access trail at the time. We let him hunt it that year, and paid him a little visit the following fall. We bought 100 of those cheap car air fresheners and thouroughly contaminated the area around his stand. We did it very late on the night before the opener, and I'm sure you could smell those things for miles around. We went back the weekend after deer season and taped a can of black powder mixed with ball bearings to the underside of the deck of the stand. You'd be surprised how much damage that does to 2x4's. It took out the whole deck, and 2 of the three trees the stand was nailed to. We neve saw him in that woods again.

Depends on how bad you want them gone. You might have to hire a lawyer and pursue a civil suit.
Here in Texas there are several statutes that cover trespass. Simple trespass is a fairly benign misdemeanor. Criminal trespass (which includes carrying a firearm while trespassing) can get to be a really big (read expensive) deal. You'll have to have some law enforcement involved, be it Sheriff's deputy, conservation officer, or whatever. Just prosecute to the fullest extent possible. Make sure your LEO knows you are serious, and you will do all you can to keep these cretins away. I'll bet you can make it "not worth it" to these creeps. Good Luck!

I'd think that a couple of well placed rounds from a 30-06 fired about 12 feet over their heads would get their attention.
It's been known to happen up here, and it works.

Don

Post you porperty well, as in "there is no question it is posted" Then have fun and get creative...no one can really tell you what you can and can't do on your own property...

Pokin' .45s in ears and shootin' over the heads of folks that you wished weren't there could be powerful good ways of gettin' one's self into something far beyond what one had planned for the day.

These are potentially life altering/ending actions. If you're willing to start the dance, you better be willing to finish it.

nah.........that'll never happen........

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can you say "ass-whooping"

Many can say it, few can deliver it......