So, my main hunting partner manages a horse farm on The Gore Road just north of Patterson Side Road in Caledon. It's about 250 acres and mostly wooded.
Last fall, about a week before the fall turkey season opened, three turkey were poached from the property and my friend believes he knows who did it. Additionally he found blood trails indicating deer had been taken as well. While we don't know for sure we suspect they may be using bows as well as guns, depending on circumstance.
This morning at about 6:00 am while listening to the old tom gobble, he heard what was clearly a box call making hen calls. This is from his bedroom window so whoever was doing it had to have been clearly on the farm property. He was out the door like a flash, trying to spook both the birds and the poachers. Called the police and they contacted the CO who got out there fairly quickly.
My friend is pretty sure there is a black pick-up involved and co-incidentally, a neighbor he suspects as being involved, as the properties abut, just happened to have a black pick-up in the driveway this morning
Any help identifying those involved in this illegal activity would be appreciated and if you know who it is but don't want to turn them in, you should probably tell them it will be an unrelenting hunt to catch them in the act. Given the deer situation, the CO has already asked if my friend would be okay with authorizing a sting operation of the property.
If you are waffling, it is these people and this type of activity that give hunters a bad reputation with the non hunting community.
Last fall, about a week before the fall turkey season opened, three turkey were poached from the property and my friend believes he knows who did it. Additionally he found blood trails indicating deer had been taken as well. While we don't know for sure we suspect they may be using bows as well as guns, depending on circumstance.
This morning at about 6:00 am while listening to the old tom gobble, he heard what was clearly a box call making hen calls. This is from his bedroom window so whoever was doing it had to have been clearly on the farm property. He was out the door like a flash, trying to spook both the birds and the poachers. Called the police and they contacted the CO who got out there fairly quickly.
My friend is pretty sure there is a black pick-up involved and co-incidentally, a neighbor he suspects as being involved, as the properties abut, just happened to have a black pick-up in the driveway this morning
Any help identifying those involved in this illegal activity would be appreciated and if you know who it is but don't want to turn them in, you should probably tell them it will be an unrelenting hunt to catch them in the act. Given the deer situation, the CO has already asked if my friend would be okay with authorizing a sting operation of the property.
If you are waffling, it is these people and this type of activity that give hunters a bad reputation with the non hunting community.
