Guest TennesseeTurkey Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 I went to my spot where "Ted" has been hanging out and on the walk in.... 2 sets of 4 wheeler lights on the other side of the property.... not only was there other people hunting on our land without permission, my turkey wasnt anywhere to be found..... I caught up with the guys and asked them if they knew the land owners and they said no, so I told them that as far as I knew I was the only one allowed ot hunt on that property and they needed to leave, and they did without a fuss thankfully... (two of them one of me and guns in each nand couldnt have went too well)..... Im absolutely appaled that people will just blatantly drive their 4 wheelers all over other peoples property, I finally fully understand other peoples grievences (spelling?) on this matter.... simply put.... it isnt cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA_Spike_King Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Yep, we have had that problem at our camp in turkey and in deer season...AND there are only two roads into our lease and they are marked no driving beyond this point but the same thing happens at least once a year. So I feel your pain KT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wobbly_Alaska Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 oh guys! it is even worse up here. Everyone thinks large tracks of land are state land and anything on it is theirs. i have 310 acres about 100 miles S of Fairbanks and another 160 acers of mining tracts 26 miles off road from there.. i have found people camped in my yard, using my equipment, and sleeping in my cots on the claim. any fuel left out will get used ( if the bears don't eat first) and there have been years i have picked up 50 gallon trash bags of beer cans off my trail through my land. State law says i have to post it every 50 foot and i leave my cell phone number on the signs.. that say PRIVATE PROPERTY... please ask to enter. one year i let a couple guys hunt there and they did okay for the most part... except that 15 days later the place stunk to HIGH HEAVEN and bears were in my yard every night... turns out they spent the evenings shooting the hare that run every where there and tossed them into the woods to rot. was nearly 35 dead Bunny's rotting and bringing bears into my yard where the kids play. out on the claim when we put in trails... Moose season destroys them for the ATV traffic ripping up and down. and camping less then 100 yards from our tents and equipment. (60,000 square miles of wilderness in this sub unit) here in town if there is a trail... you will never stop ATV from ripping through once they find it. i dont mind the folks that just pass through that FOUND them selfs in the yard... but the ones that pull up and expect to unload in my yard because there is a trail through it get sent packing. it never used to be this way... but every year it gets worse. and i hate to say it... but it is all the URBAN minded folks that think because they drove 6 hours to get out of Anchorage... or those new up here that don know any better that think just because they can't see a house it is a free for all do all... good thing i am patient with folks and rather educate them then make enimies... never had a "confrontation" yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Greed/selfishness is at the heart of everything...at least most it seems. Hope your bird comes back. Make sure you let the landowner know what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamond Archer 01 Posted April 11, 2010 Report Share Posted April 11, 2010 Sorry to hear that. Hope your turkey comes back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griz Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 I no how you fill and what your sayin'... I put up with the same thing here every year... People don't care who's land they hunt on as long as they can hunt... I tell ya...It's getting worst every year... Griz... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted April 12, 2010 Report Share Posted April 12, 2010 OK, let me get this straight...... you named a turkey TED?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TennesseeTurkey Posted April 13, 2010 Report Share Posted April 13, 2010 OK, let me get this straight...... you named a turkey TED?!? you got a better name? :clown: Ted's dead now anyways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Around here, it seems that everyone thinks when they buy an ATV they get a license to trespass. I've found about all a landowner can do is put the word out that he will do something fairly irrational should he catch trespassers. It's worked quite well for me. :ninja: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goinghuntin Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 I've found about all a landowner can do is put the word out that he will do something fairly irrational should he catch trespassers. It's worked quite well for me. :ninja: Like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3seasons Posted April 14, 2010 Report Share Posted April 14, 2010 Bitter Sweet Kinda long sorry. To start off our season here in MS has been one of the strangest and hardest seasons to date.(for me and a lot of others that I know) The turkeys are not acting right at all. Some places they are gobbling, most they are not for some reason. My dad quit hunting and started playing golf after 3 weeks of straight hunting without sitting down on a bird. Another guy I work with has hunted everyday this season and also gone to TX and still doesn’t have a bird to show for it and he is a dang good turkey hunter. That’s the season we have been having. Needless to say I have been in a small state of depression with the way the season has been going. Everywhere i hunt that is private I’m having to deal with poachers which doesn’t help matters. I get up sat morning (April 10) and wind up calling up 5 jakes, that’s been the highlight of my season, I was so happy that I called in a bird even though they weren’t legal. Seems like I’ve had things to do the whole season so I haven’t got to hunt like I normally do, I had to leave early on this day also. So sat night my wife said to go hunting Sunday morning and to stay. So I said I would think about it but I would be home for Church if I did go. This may sound crazy but I’m telling it anyway. Sat night I dreamed that I flipped a coin and it landed on tails twice which meant I was going to my south property. Not the north where I saw all the jakes. I turned the alarm clock off Sunday morning, basically sick of going with not even hearing a bird. I wake up a few minutes later and figured what the heck its a beautiful morning I’m going to give it a try. I get to a place where a bird has been roosting in the prior weeks well before daybreak, while sitting there in the dark I start to hear someone hooting on the east side of the property. As day breaks (6am) I’m still hearing him hoot and i hear a faint gobble as far as I can hear. While this is going on I haven’t heard a sound around me. This goes on till about 6:45 and I cant stand it any more, so I break and run to the east end of our land to see if I can hear the poacher or hear the bird gobbling. It was about 5min later the bird gobbled down in a bottom from me. So if figured what the heck I’m going after him. I made a semicircle and got on a ridge to the side of where I thought he was. I called and he gobbled. I hit the deck and got ready, I called again and then i heard another call to my left. It want a hen but it was another hunter that was set up about 70yds to my left. I was the only person that day hunting so i knew he was poaching. The bird kept gobbling and I started to cut, the other hunter called back, this goes on for 30min until I see the bird fly down off the roost at 4:40( he was roosted in a tree that was in the bottom so it sounded like he was on the next ridge) He lit 40yds from me, when he hit the ground the other hunter started to call more, i just started purring, the bird walked on a line to me and started to go into strut. I wanted to watch him for a little while but I didn’t want my intruder to mess me up either so I shot the bird. I broke and ran on the shot and as I ran up the next ridge I see a decoy and a hunter sitting beside a tree. BUSTED again. I caught him last year also. Some people. We had a nice long talk and I finally got him to understand that it is not a good thing to keep poaching. We will see, I don’t know what all the land owner is going to do to him. I got him to take a pic of me with the bird, that’s why it is a little blurry, he was shaking a little. The bitter sweet part is, While I was able to call in and take a truly beautiful Red barred bird First I’ve ever taken with these colors. My taxidermist said the colors were rare. Ill get some better pics with more detail later. I wasn’t able to fully enjoy the hunt because of some bonehead that crossed the line. And on the other hand I know that’s one less bird that ill be able to chase in the future. I love hunting these birds but they are getting harder and harder to find. God blessed me on this hunt and I am forever grateful I said my prayers and got home in time for Sunday School. HAHA after it was all said and done, the poacher asked if I thought he could get in our club. Yea right. 18lbs 9.5'beard 1"spurs Bronze fan red bars on half of his wing feathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckbuster01 Posted April 15, 2010 Report Share Posted April 15, 2010 "Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12-point Posted April 19, 2010 Report Share Posted April 19, 2010 sounds like my luck the very first morning. You know how you feel when you sit down and its all just starting for the season the crows are calling and the gobblers are tore up. Your emotions are high and all of a sudden you see the toms coming then boom boom boom. Three guys walk out tresspassing and shoot at your birds. Yeah thats my season so far and im fueming. P.Od bad! But they got to meet our local game warden haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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