Guest SRA Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 be honest................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo_buck Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yep, Accidentally crossed a property line once, without knowing it. Til the landowner rode up on us, and told us to leave...... Humble experience to say the least..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palssonater Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Nope. There's so much crown land here, there's no need. And it is very easy to get permission from everyone. As long as you ask, they have no problem. We had a different truck one day, and our friend came racing up to find out who the heck we were, to find my dad and I finishing our coffee. I guess we should have told him we were borrowing a cousin's truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Strictly by the law, yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Never as an adult that I can remember or that I was aware of. As a kid, Im sure at one time or another but do not remember any specific instances though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronS Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? No. How is the hunt going on the trespasser you caught? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newarcher Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yep, had to go get a deer that I shot that crossed the boundary. I waited until after dark so as to not disturb any other hunters, was only about 50 yards over, and was there less than ten minutes. Had no choice as I didn't know the other landowner and had no way of finding them to ask permission. I picked up some trash on the way out so I left it in better shape than I found it and didn't gut her on their property. I would never knowingly hunt someone else's land, regardless. New Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Nope....all our neighbors get along. I don't hunt their land, but can be on it anytime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horst Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Legally speaking yes I have hunted property without getting permission first. Ethically speaking no, I know everyone around here and quite a few of em simply dont care as long as your shooting the deer that are eating thier crops.The ones that Im unsure of Ive aleways stopped and asked first though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayman Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Almost. We were goose hunting in Manitoba. The farmer said we were on his property, when in fact we were hunting on a public road allowance that the farmer had plowed under. We were with a local who knew the old roads, and new the law about hunting on "public" road allowances. The farmer called the game warden, and we waited patiently for him to show up and make our case. The Game Warden actually agreed with us, but because this particular farmer is always raising a stink about hunters, the Warden issued us an "unofficial warning ticket" because he needed it to appear to the farmer that we were all getting the book thrown at us. The game warden said that this farmer was a real a-hole (in fact he used those exact words), but said that they have to live with him 12 months out of the year, and giving us a fake ticket was the only way to keep him off their backs. You should have seen the look on his face, when the farmer accused us of being on his side of the fence. Our "local" friend said "Keith (that was the farmer's first name), since when have you ever known any farmer to put a fence on his own property?" The game wardens (there were two of them) just about lost it laughing. The look on the farmer's face was, as they say, "Priceless". We heard that within the next year, that same land owner was arrested and convicted for catching one of his neighbor's stray dogs, tying it up in one of his pole barns and severely beating it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutchies Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yep but by mistake. I got lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailtrax Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? I have crossed a couple fences way back in the woods that I wasn't 100% sure of, but have never intentionally trespassed onto land that I knew was off limits. As a Wildlife Biologist, the very last thing in this world that I can afford is a fish & game violation of any kind including trespassing - it's potentially career ending in my profession. I'm heading out tomorrow on an archery antelope hunt and the first thing I will go over with the landowner is his property boundaries to make sure I don't wander onto adjacent land where I don't have permission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggs Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yeah, when I was younger and didn't really know better I'd still hunt through land adjacent to where I had permission to hunt. With maturity, I realized that it was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAhardwoods Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? what about you SRA???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SRA Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? [ QUOTE ] what about you SRA???? [/ QUOTE ] lol..........unfortunately i have .....longer ago.....i try to be very careful nowadays i can't stand trespassers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billygoat Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Honestly, I would have to say yes. When I was younger I would jump a fence to "get a better approach", at a piece of property I was trying to drive, or hunt. As I have gotten older, and grown a greater respect for the sport, I am much more concious of the properties I hunt, and I do obtain permission for properties before entering them. I have, however, in the last 5 years, shot a deer, and tracked it, only to find that it had gone onto property that I did not have permission for. 1 time the landowner gave me permission to track, the second time a landowner wasn't home, so I took it upon myself to track the deer (don't know what the responsible thing to do, would have been, but I never like to leave a wounded or down deer). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyderpancake Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? To be honest, yes i have. I actually got caught last spring turkey hunting. I have permission to hunt a bunch of land right across from my house, and the landowner told me his land goes to a certain field. Well the one he told me and his actual boundary is a little bit different, and i honestly thought i was hunting his land. When the real owner drove up i had nothing to hide b/c i had no idea. I told him that so-and-so let me hunt his land and i thought this field was his, but that i sincerely appologized, and he was very nice about it. Now i know to get exact boundaries of land i get permission to hunt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkoholic Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Trespassing is an interesting subject and I would bet almost all hunters have made this transgression a few times, and I am no exception. In my adult life, while in the pursuit of game, I have not knowingly done so, but with the often obscure boundary lines between public and private land here in Montana I am sure it happens. On the other hand, there are fences and no trespassing signs on land that I am 100% positive is national forest service land as there are people who like to claim adjacent public land as their own. Often, boundary markers are pulled up or destroyed as land owners try to prevent access to public lands adjoining their property. In other areas of the country, where there is mostly private property with more evident boundaries incidental trespassing is less likely to happen, but, even then, I suspect there are boundary disputes. Without readily apparent property boundaries with proper (legal) postings things can get kind of murky. Here in Montana if you are on private property while hunting you had better have permission if confronted and you are responsible for knowing property boundaries. I do not agree that when you are miles from the nearest road on a heavily timbered ridge you should "know" when you crossed some invisible boundary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMSD5 Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? yep i have but it was not intended, i rented a farm from a certian guy but he never owned it ....unfortunelly i met the real owner or should i say his 12 ga. at the base of my neck...yes i marched to the road with him behind me ...i went and found a game warden and he went back with me (as i had the signed lease agreement with me) and of course the real landowner showed up again but not as crazy this time(he saw the warden's badge) we did get things settled i found the person that leased me the ground he was charged and sentanced ...got my lease back and still got to hunt half the farm i had tresspassed on for the rest of that season...got an appolige and gave one to the real land owner..and i did get a couple nice deer that season.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathews4life Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? well of course i have...but it wasn't intentional!!!!! lol....it happens when u get turned around in the woods at times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad dryden Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? Yes becouse our neighbor steaks on our place and squirill hunts and somtimes turkey hunt on our place and they used to hunt on our place everyday during deer season until we found out so when I find out they hunted on the farm I sneak over along the property line if I have a better chance of scoring on a deer or turkey It basicaly an eye for an eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? [ QUOTE ] Yep, had to go get a deer that I shot that crossed the boundary. I waited until after dark so as to not disturb any other hunters, was only about 50 yards over, and was there less than ten minutes. Had no choice as I didn't know the other landowner and had no way of finding them to ask permission. I picked up some trash on the way out so I left it in better shape than I found it and didn't gut her on their property. I would never knowingly hunt someone else's land, regardless. New [/ QUOTE ] This pretty much sums it up for me also....I make every effort to retrieve any game that I shot....PERIOD !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preacherman Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? nope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvertip_co Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Re: Have you ever trespassed while hunting? NO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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