You wonder why farmers post their land???

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Today I was out scouting for boars and noticed fresh truck tracks that went through a field of oats that hasn't been combined. A little further another set going through alfalfa that wasn't combined either.

What a way to make a farmers blood boil!!! Remember show some respect and stay off fields that aren't combined. Spring will come and they will try to recover what is left of the crop. Just because you see a deer across a field doesn't mean you have to DRIVE after it to chase it down. You were given legs for a reason; use them sometimes.

HUNTING ETHICS don't forget them
 
Nice thought, but people here tend not to be the problem. I'd say make a law, but there is one and it has no teeth. Unwillingness of the courts to prosecute to the full extent.
 
Stay off ANY field unless the owner has given you definite permission to be on it!

I was with a group that drove on a field of summer fallow....which is generally not a concern to anyone...except the farmer had sprayed it with avidex....he was NOT amused.
 
I'm not pointing fingers, but the out of province whitetail draw is on this week. This didn't happen prior to this week around my farm and area.

Applefarmer you should take off those rose colored glasses. Hunters are like any group of people, bad/poor judgement exists in some of them. They are kinda like the squeaky wheel and screw it up for everyone else. It just seems that the quest for the "trophy" animal has taken precedent over keeping the brain engaged.

I am just waiting for the antlerless elk season to start here in a couple of weeks. It is always a gong show. Some of you would be shocked how the elk are literally chased with trucks across the fields.
 
If I owned any land I would of built many of spike strips to hide at every entrance. I'd be pissed as hell if that kept happening to me.
 
Applefarmer said:
Nice thought, but people here tend not to be the problem. I'd say make a law, but there is one and it has no teeth. Unwillingness of the courts to prosecute to the full extent.
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No, actually - people (specifically, irresponsible firearms owners) are entirely the problem here. I remember stories about people trying to hunt on my father's acreage. And when I say "hunt", I mean "poach" - since the 9-foot fence, "private property" and "no hunting" signs obviously weren't enough of a deterrent.
 
Would trail cams taking photos of licence plates do the trick? Ripping off Christmas trees used to be a big deal in Quebec when I was a kid. Some dairy guys would write vache/cow on the sides of their heifers that were running loose. Bilingual of course. Farmers have been dealing with this BS forever. It doesn't make it right though.
 
I have permission on a crap load of land and just recently had to notify the farmer that I seen other tracks also. I also reminded him of our first conversation that I would be the only one on his land (meaning: I wouldn`t bring others along with me or be a passenger with someone else and access this land). He was quite happy I let him know, just shows him that I am a responsible person. It just peeves me to no end, that some guys won`t take the time to track down the owner prior to hunting. I consider the crappy/windy days...a good day to just approach farmers for permission.
 
It would be rewarding to see the look on guys faces as they blew out their tires crossing said strips; EXCEPT I would hate to be replacing tires for the clowns that did it. What is funny, is when an unsuspecting hunter hits a V-ditch for drainage. That surely opens their eyes. I had one such guy leave a perfect license plate image in the opposite side once. That slowed them down.hahaha

As a landowner you can't knowingly cause damage to a vehicle by building "spike strips". It also won't fly by saying I forgot my harrows were upside down; not to mention if a person on an atv ever hit this obstacle and it wasn't marked and they were injured.

It still comes down to RESPECT and COURTESY for the landowner. You don't have the god given right to drive everywhere just because you're hunting.
 
aylandacres said:
I'm not pointing fingers, but the out of province whitetail draw is on this week. This didn't happen prior to this week around my farm and area.

Applefarmer you should take off those rose colored glasses. Hunters are like any group of people, bad/poor judgement exists in some of them. They are kinda like the squeaky wheel and screw it up for everyone else. It just seems that the quest for the "trophy" animal has taken precedent over keeping the brain engaged.

I am just waiting for the antlerless elk season to start here in a couple of weeks. It is always a gong show. Some of you would be shocked how the elk are literally chased with trucks across the fields.
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This need to point blame at folks out of the area is pure BS, there is just many local fellas that don't seem to give a chit about land owner rights. FS
 
I have been a member here for 4 years now. Every year, I have noticed an increase in trespassing/poaching complain threads right here, as well as local newspapers....etc. My personal experience also confirms this (In Ontario at least).

I have no doubt the laws overseeing trespassing/poaching issue and their enforcement will be tightened soon. The existing lax laws and regulations belong to the time that crossing a neighbors property for food or access was sometimes a necessity. They do not belong to our time, where people in $50,000 souped up trucks chase game on somebody else property for fun.

Unfortunately, these changes will only come after a few bloody confrontations between land owners and trespassers and only when it hits newspapers. That is how politicians work.
 
This is the main reason that I now, never ever tell people exactly where I hunt on someone's private land. You tell a co-worker/friend where exactly you hunt and they also will try to get on using your name as a reference and his friends invite other friends and the risk increases expodentially that someone, someday is going to do something stupid and then there's no hunting for anyone. It's just not worth it to risk a prime hunting area/good relations that soon could be off limits to everyone because of what someone who was a friend of a friend did.

We have a prime mule deer hunting spot right now and I've been bugged repeatatly to reveal its location. The land owner is also the type who wouldn't hesitate to take offence to hunters as a group who violated his trust.

I don't ask exactly where people hunt and I don't expect to have to tell anyone where I hunt. I will however tell people where to go to hunt on crown land. I'll even draw maps. Sometimes this policy can cause resentment but oh well!!

I think that anyone who is really interested in hunting will cultivate his own private contacts soon enough just like I did. If the newbie is not interested in doing that much because it's work and gas and he'd rather you gave him all your hard earned contacts on a silver platter than he's not THAT interested in hunting anyway.
 
Another reason other than driving on there fields also is there livestock. Two cases of jacking in this neck of the woods ended up with 2 horses mistakenly shot... I guess they must of been drunk as well as using a light.
 
Of course it isn't just knucklehead hunters.

Morons on atvs, sleds, horseback, 4X4s, etc all seem to feel that trespass is no biggie, even when they take down fences, leave livestock gates open, climb wire fences in the middle of a run (you should see our deer fences) or trample crops.

I recently found ATV tracks looping around our pastures and twice approach the back of our house. I now patrol the property daily and will prosecute anyone I catch trespassing, as the property is well posted.

I resent not only damage and risk to our livestock, but the violation of our privacy.
 
Its purebred Saskatchewan citiots that are the biggest problem in this area. And a few local kids from surrounding towns. A lot of kids nowdays have the attitude that they can do what they want.
 
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