Land access,always ask b4 hunting

icehunter121

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It seems like hunting access is getting harder to find. This thread is more for first time hunters then us seasoned and old codgers...ALWAYS ASK FIRST..

Now I am not standing on a soap box here and begging for help nor have I gotten into any trouble at all. A little back ground on me for ya. I have lived in the same small rural farming town for 43 years now. I have access to over 37000 acres for hunting. Yup thats 37thousand of em,so not a typo. I am located 1.5 hours east of Edmonton...but on with the story.

Talking with some of the local farmers here they are tired of closing gates,cattle getting out,hell last fall me and a buddy had to chase some cattle back in a fence line on a corner gate that should have never been open and get the gates shut. The main gate was only 100 yards up the hill and it was opened ( not driven over) and left like that. The land owner was happy when I called them up that night and told them about it and such.

The biggest problem is THEFT now. Everything is being stolen out here now and at all times of the year. Most of it during hunting season. To date they have stolen..solar panels for waterers,the friggen waterers,batteries for electric fences,the friggen electric fence wire,one guy had a welder trailer combo stolen( 16 grand for the combo) stock water troughs made of plastic tubs.:rolleyes: Too big for a bird bath and make a real ugly bathtub..but those are disappearing also.An the list goes on and on and on... An the best to date...

Ready for this...


A rock out of a gravel pit...yup a rock. About 1500 to 2000 pound rock went missing. Nice sizeable rock probably sitting in someones front yard with there name on it by now. They fired up a loader( borrowed from the same pit also) and had to have a trailer and scooped the rock during a 3 day span.I dont think there is a black market for rocks yet!!

Ask permission cause a lot of farmers all over are tired of it and are going to shut down land access completely. If you are hunting always have a county map with you and check it...it just makes all hunters look better when you stop at the farmers first. The farmers are not saying its just hunters but they own the land so therefore have the right to allow or deny access.Besides..they just might tell ya that where you want to hunt isnt good but the next 1/4 over has a nice buck on it...

Most hunters in here are very responsible...it just takes a couple of bad ones to make us all look bad....and oh ya,the land you are hunting on,try this. If you are successful on your hunt and after the deer or moose or goose is down and gutted in the bush and NOT on the friggen roadway or leaseway like I have seen. Stop by the farm house,thank them and offer them a goose or 2,tenderloin out of the deer or moose or what ever.It goes a long way for the hunter /farmer relationship. Even a x-mas card to them thanking them for access will do wonders...they will remember you and you will probably not have a problem for the next year to contnue the sport that we love...

That is Ice's thought for the day....Happy hunting season...:sniper:
 
I have had a business card made up that gives my name add, phone, truck desc, plate #, ect. I find when going cold to someones yard, giving them that when I introduce myself goes a long way. It also says thanks for the privilege of hunting on your land. Works well for me.
 
Spike162 said:
I have had a business card made up that gives my name add, phone, truck desc, plate #, ect. I find when going cold to someones yard, giving them that when I introduce myself goes a long way. It also says thanks for the privilege of hunting on your land. Works well for me.
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Thats a good idea also. With the cost of having a couple of cards done up...Pretty cheap way to get known....:)
 
Every piece of property I hunt on has been with permission from the owner. I have tried on some property where the farmer rents the land, but I dont think that really cuts. What irritates me the most is when others go onto the property and they just dont care. Every year is the same thing on this one piece of land, the group has been told no every year but they still go and walk the bush for deer. I see footprints under my stand every time I go back to it in the snow. They actually had the nerve about 3 years ago to ask if we were going to be in our stand in the afternoon and we said yes, dude actually said that we would be interupting their drive! Even others we ran into and asked if they had written permission to show us, yes they did, for like 8 years ago! You cant win!
 
ya u can win...few years back myself and some friends were hunting a 1/4..640 acres...truck comes up from the south and asks us what we are doing...I told them hunting deer..they asked if we had permission and i said yup and asked them if they did...they said yup..i said cool...then pointed out the land owner standing on a hill 150 yards from us and politely said...shall we ask him if you have permission...:p

They got out of there in a heart beat..they dropped a back 1/4 gate and let themselves in,,,and the dang gate was posted...betcha they never came back again:wave:
 
Speaking about thefts, last winter, I had dragged a beef carcass out into a field, which was posted, on which I (and I alone) had permission to knock off some 'yotes. i went back the following evening to set up, and lo and behold, my bait was gone!!!

Someone had dragged it off in 2 pieces with snowmibiles. I followed the tracks 2 miles and found it, along with the thieves. They had the balls to say it was one of their beef!!

I guess you can't leave anything laying around these days.
 
I even go as far to ask family members permission to hunt every year when they tell me i don't have to ask.

Common courtesy and respect goes a long way, sadly hunting on a lot of land i used to have permission on is no longer possible due to the disrespect a lot of people seem to have nowdays. Unless people learn to show respect hunting may go the way of the dodo as in extinct and it is a shame when a couple of minutes of time is all it takes to give a little respect and in most cases get a little back in return.
 
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