He is a great guy but lives 40 miles away and my place is off the beaten path (helped get the bird feeders thru state funding in exchange for quail and eggs)
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Why Landowners Don’t Want “Help” With Their Hogs in one Simple Picture
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Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
Game Wardens are just like any other LE officers. Some good and some not worth spitting on.
Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
My last dealing with a game warden was over 15 years ago with trespassers that were setting up tree stands on my property on the bsck part close to where set up the targets the last yime you were here. He told me to call the sherriff's department.
Lonesome Dove
A man of vision but with no mission.
I had no problems securing a couple places to hunt and fish just by asking.
Then offering to work for it.
Recently gave up the 200 acre place due to lack of game with the exception of a few travelers coming thru.
If you never ask you'll definitely Never get!
Then offering to work for it.
Recently gave up the 200 acre place due to lack of game with the exception of a few travelers coming thru.
If you never ask you'll definitely Never get!
My favorite is the poacher in AZ who shoots a big cactus and it falls on them or their car. Seems to happen quite regularly.
Double Naught Spy
Well-Known
What amazes me are the number of hunters who are put out by landowners who don't want the help of strangers and often don't want the help with friends. I usually hear garbage like, "Landowners should not be allowed to complain about their hog problems if they won't let me hunt for free." So apparently, said hunters think that when people buy and own land, that they must either give up the right to complain about problems or give up the right to control access to their own lands.
I am a hunter on more than a dozen properties that I don't own and 3 that I do. I don't let strangers hunt my lands, either. I won't let most of my friends hunt my places without me present.
My first taste of self-entitled assholes came around 2005 when I bought my first land. A buddy wanted a place for his son to be able to get his first deer. Cool. I gave permission. Two weeks later and about 3 weeks before deer season, the guy calls and tells me that he has killed the largest bobcat he has ever seen - on my place. He didn't have permission to hunt on my property and didn't have my permission to hunt bobcats on my place, but he was sure to educate me on how I didn't want bobcats on my place and how bobcats were not my property, but the state's property and he had a hunting license. I politely let him know that his son would have to get his first deer somewhere else.
I am a hunter on more than a dozen properties that I don't own and 3 that I do. I don't let strangers hunt my lands, either. I won't let most of my friends hunt my places without me present.
My first taste of self-entitled assholes came around 2005 when I bought my first land. A buddy wanted a place for his son to be able to get his first deer. Cool. I gave permission. Two weeks later and about 3 weeks before deer season, the guy calls and tells me that he has killed the largest bobcat he has ever seen - on my place. He didn't have permission to hunt on my property and didn't have my permission to hunt bobcats on my place, but he was sure to educate me on how I didn't want bobcats on my place and how bobcats were not my property, but the state's property and he had a hunting license. I politely let him know that his son would have to get his first deer somewhere else.
That sucks. so You gave him permission to take his kid hunting and he thought that was blanket permission to go whenever he wanted? Damn..
I was (too old now) a hunter of many animals from dove, duck, goose, deer, redfish, speckled trout and flounder, but I would never kill something as beautiful as a bobcat.
Yes, I know they might kill your chickens, (build a better coop) but they're one of nature's absolute beauties, much like other predators like raptors, don't kill them for fk-s sake.
Yes, I know they might kill your chickens, (build a better coop) but they're one of nature's absolute beauties, much like other predators like raptors, don't kill them for fk-s sake.
If it poses a threat to my family, pets, livestock or me, it gets a bullet.
If it does not, and is just doing apex predator stuff in the wild, it gets a complete pass from this apex predator as a matter of professional courtesy.
Love it.
Perfectly stated.
In anything but a Robinson Helicopter!
Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
Exactly. I like your signature line: I'd rather have a hog problem than an asshole problem.
Double Naught Spy
Well-Known
Yes, and I see this quite a bit. Folks (hunters) rationalize in their own heads what permissions they were given. I had a buddy kicked off a huge ranch because he shot a coyote. The owner of the ranch did not want coyotes shot. It doesn't matter why, that was the rule. My buddy was granted access to the entire ranch and said he could kill every hog he saw and just leave them lay and the rancher would collect them. I think the place was 1500 or 2500 acres. My buddy shot a lot of hogs there. Then, he saw a coyote and shot it. He told us outright that there was no way that he would let a coyote walk and that he was doing the rancher a favor. The rancher found out and just that quick, he lost the best hunting place he ever had. Of course, he blamed the rancher for having unrealistic expectations, LOL.
I am continually amazed by how many hunters know better than the landowners about how the landowners want to manage their own properties.
I have known many a property own who granted privileges in exchange for help with the many chores that come with land.
Problem is then they find some shit eater couldn’t start a chain saw or tractor if his life depended on it. If someone ain’t willing to put something into it they are free shit army.
Problem is then they find some shit eater couldn’t start a chain saw or tractor if his life depended on it. If someone ain’t willing to put something into it they are free shit army.
All of the landowners I know have an “as needed” policy on coyotes. If you are shooting a lot of hogs , the coyotes are the most effective method of body disposal out there.
If the coyotes start to get brave and start creeping around living areas, chickens etc, usually shooting one will encourage the rest to go back in the woods and stay away.
Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
And usually if the coyoyes are getting an easy meal off the hogs,they usually nwont' bother going sfter livestock or pets.
