Have you been the victim of theft, vandalism or trespassing while hunting?

Have you been the victim of theft, vandalism &/or trespassing while hunting?

  • No, lucky for us it's never been an issue.

    Votes: 115 44.4%

  • Yes, we have had property stolen. Stands/Cameras/Equipment etc.

    Votes: 75 29.0%

  • Yes, we have had problems with vandalism.

    Votes: 44 17.0%

  • Yes, we have had problems with trespassing.

    Votes: 96 37.1%
  • Total voters
    259
Hard to hunt is SW Ontario without dealing with trespassers. One Saturday last spring I attended no less than 6 farms in one morning to find trespassers on every one. Local cops do nothing so I tracked down and found each one or group and gave them the personal experience. Lotta ugly going on when all I set out to do was hunt Saturday morning
Everyone claimed to have permission but took to packing gear when I gave them a personal invite to hop in my truck and go see the landowner and if they didn't have permission the next stop would be the local police station.
Simply put the many new hunters have no respect for property or the effort some of us go to get permission to access private land or the fact that gear left in the bush is not finders keepers. I believe many trail cam thefts are a result of people getting caught and trying to destroy evidence
 
Had our camp robbed b y a couple of buttwipes yeas ago, They stole our rum and beer and the steaks for that night's supper. Also our cigarettes. Worst of it was that It was my bosses son and his buddy. Got ev en with him tho, karma is a ##### Brian.
 
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I have ongoing trespassing and vandalism issues on a property. The police and CO's have written permission to arrest and charge anyone found on the property without written approval.
 
I have had one trail camera stolen by some local kids over the last decade on my property, but a visit to their dad seemed to sort out that problem. They denied it and I never got my camera back, but haven't had any problems since. I still get trespassers on my land occasionally. The guys I like are the ones that tell me that they have permission from the owner and still cling to their stories as they leave after I tell them I am the owner. I also like the guys that tell me they have been hunting there for twenty years, when I have owned the land for ten! Most guys I run into leave for good after being caught, haven't seen anybody twice but if I did ... then I would definitely call the cops.
 
One year we had a trophy buck cut down from in front of my grandpas farm...we were none to happy about that. Another time we had the backstraps cut out of all our deer...we think it was someone within our gang..
 
The farm I grew up on in southern Ontario was a #####, the snowmobile trail went through it and it was treated as a green light to come on the property any time of the year. I kicked people off there on a regular basis, and yes even had the excuse "I have permission to be here young man", well that didn't go over too good! Had one guy in my tree stand on a nice frosty November morning, told him to get out, he said no, I said I am headed to the house to get my chainsaw, he came down right away. Best one was I was driving my snowmobile on our lane way on our property--it was also the official OFSC trail, had a trail cop try to fine me for not having a trail permit. I told him he no longer had permission to be there, I didn't care if he had a permit and was a trail cop, get the hell out and don't come back. Two years later the OFSC was kicked out, they had to go around. People are f*&king rude! I now hunt a new property, the owner is very good to me, gave me keys to the gates, and carte blanche permission to do what I want where I want, well last week I find a car parked out side the gate, I call the land owner and he is there is five mins! Ten mins later two ladies come out of the bush with their fat dog, claim they weren't doing anything they weren't supposed too, I said the land is posted, sign is 20 ft away, you are not SUPPOSED to be here. They didn't get it.
 
Crashman said:
The farm I grew up on in southern Ontario was a #####, the snowmobile trail went through it and it was treated as a green light to come on the property any time of the year. I kicked people off there on a regular basis, and yes even had the excuse "I have permission to be here young man", well that didn't go over too good! Had one guy in my tree stand on a nice frosty November morning, told him to get out, he said no, I said I am headed to the house to get my chainsaw, he came down right away. Best one was I was driving my snowmobile on our lane way on our property--it was also the official OFSC trail, had a trail cop try to fine me for not having a trail permit. I told him he no longer had permission to be there, I didn't care if he had a permit and was a trail cop, get the hell out and don't come back. Two years later the OFSC was kicked out, they had to go around. People are f*&king rude! I now hunt a new property, the owner is very good to me, gave me keys to the gates, and carte blanche permission to do what I want where I want, well last week I find a car parked out side the gate, I call the land owner and he is there is five mins! Ten mins later two ladies come out of the bush with their fat dog, claim they weren't doing anything they weren't supposed too, I said the land is posted, sign is 20 ft away, you are not SUPPOSED to be here. They didn't get it.
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Access to private property for OFSC trails has been denied on a massive scale for the last couple of years for exactly the reasons you've cited. It's lead to a large decline in OFSC memberships that's causing them to leave trails ungroomed for lack of funds. The "trail cop" program has lead to many lawsuits against them personally,the OFSC and the government for abuse of authority and civil rights violations. I had a "trail cop" threaten me with arrest,firearm seizure and trespassing charges because I wouldn't show him a trail pass permit for the Ganaraska Forest even though I was a Forest membership holder and I was on foot. That didn't end well for the moron,let me tell you. Almost all of the private property access trails have now been posted in the general vicinity. OFSC has no one to blame but themselves.
 
We used to hunt a great property near Baysville (owner drank it away!) and that was my only negative experience with citidiots. Some moronic self-absorbed yuppie pukes in jeans and jackets (no blaze orange) tramped past my ground blind chatting away. They almost dirtied their drawers when I whistled, stood up, and walked down to them. They tried to sell me a snow job that they were lost and trying to get back to the concession road. Yeah, right!!! Armed? In deer season? Just out for a walk? I don't think so. I pointed out that there are about 5 hunters dispersed on the property and wandering around without proper clothing is a good way to get shot. I guided them to the road off the property and told them that some of the locals would have trashed their vehicle and maybe them if they had been unfortunate enough to have been on their hunting property so maybe finding their own ground would be a good idea.
 
We use to go have a hunt camp up by Sudbury. Went there to bate bears for a spring bear hunt, still snow on the ground and found that the access road in was being used as a snow mobile trail. We we're trying to be nice, left the truck on the road and took the quads into the camp....same thing as others have said. Some guys lost their $hit on us when they found us on "their" trail with quads.
We were the camp that went up every summer to replace culverts, clear brush ect. to keep the road open and usable for our camp and 3 others that used it. After the threats and tongue lashing they were giving me stopped, I chained up the K5 Blaser and brought it all the way in and parked it in front of the camp. No amount of trail grooming was going to fix that.
On the note of things getting stollen, we put propane lines and propane lights in the camp one summer...the lights and the copper line were gone by hunting season, never even got to use them.
 
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ugh, trail cams, and one ladder stand, was an expensive first trip into the trail cam game, lost 4 in one area alone, 1 in another, found the 6th and last one with the card and batteries removed and a friendly note telling me all crown land was spoken for in that area .. , ya, we hunted the area anyways, its crown, and we have permission from the logging outfits in the area( we asked to have the radio freq. they use so we could monitor and not get in the way of any logging operations, so they gave us permission to get into some area they were getting ready to log, )
 
I caught a guy hunting birds on some of my land yesterday. He didn't have permission. He appoligized and I gave him permission for future hunts. Most hunters are good about getting permission(in my experiences).
 
Lost three trail cameras over a year an half on one property even with cable locks on them. Hunters an growers can't get along seems they thought I was after them but once the police were called after the theft never had anymore problems.
 
Something a little different Jay, one of our guys had his deer stolen. He shot the deer, waited for a bit, and trailed it to where it fell by the road. Blood, drag marks, footprints and tire tracks is all he found. He was close enough to hear the car doors, but not close enough to get there in time.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Something a little different Jay, one of our guys had his deer stolen. He shot the deer, waited for a bit, and trailed it to where it fell by the road. Blood, drag marks, footprints and tire tracks is all he found. He was close enough to hear the car doors, but not close enough to get there in time.
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Oh, that sucks bad!
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Something a little different Jay, one of our guys had his deer stolen. He shot the deer, waited for a bit, and trailed it to where it fell by the road. Blood, drag marks, footprints and tire tracks is all he found. He was close enough to hear the car doors, but not close enough to get there in time.
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Same thing happened to a buddy, opening day first hunt ever, shoots, waits 20 mins. Deer dropped on the edge of a field about 60 yds from the road and there was a skiff of fresh snow. We track it about 50 yds down the edge of a brushy creek and look up to see footprints to and from and drag marks to the road. I can honestly say I have never seen a more disappointed guy in my life.
 
On separate occasions, I had a snowmobile and a Woods 5 star sleeping bag stolen. The sleeping bag had sentimental value as it belonged to an old family friend and never saw it agin. I managed to get the skidoo back and incurred several hundred dollars in impound and recovery fees. TB
 
hunter148 said:
Hard to hunt is SW Ontario without dealing with trespassers. I believe many trail cam thefts are a result of people getting caught and trying to destroy evidence
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Agreed. We have 'caught' trespassers on camera, the land owner didn't recognize them...

And, there is a 'hood rat' living next door to the landowner, he's been to jail etc., a real 'nice' person if you catch my drift. The one other person who has access to the farm believes there is a chance this hood rat might be growing stuff in the area, and that could be the reason cams 'disappeared'.

Either way, we are now in a situation where replacement of the cams will only result in them being stolen or damaged. Our hope is that they just leave the stands alone so that we can hunt. It will be very disappointing if the stands are damaged/destroyed or stolen. Ugh

Jay
 
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