Would you cross a property line???

[n2deer]

Somebody once said "You can often tell if someone is a good turkey hunter by whether or not the knees are worn-out on their camo pants and how badly their inseam is ripped from crossing barbed wire fences."  

I got about a 8 inch scar down my left leg from crossing a fence. People get bit messing with fences.

[headbanger]

I gave an answer in the poll but some things just ain't open for discussion

[wareagle99]

There are so many variables to this question that it is hard to provide a single yes/no answer. 

I will never cross a boundary line if it is posted properly, nor will I shoot at game that might be along the edge of that property.  On the other hand, I expect landowners that want people to stay off of their property to make the effort to delineate their property boundaries and put proper signage up, especially when the property is way out in the middle of nowhere and there are no improvements on it or any indication that the owners have a reason to keep people off. 

I hunt areas that are a mixture of public and private lands and on numerous occasions, I have had private landowners try to run me off of public property adjacent to their lands.  Almost always, this has been a case of them not marking their property boundaries so that they could try to claim I was on their property when I knew I was not.

I have even had to go so far as to call the authorities to get them to address the problem for me.   

The point here is that this topic is a double-edged sword.  Hunters and landowners have personal responsibilities regarding trespass.  If a landowner wants me to stay off of his land, he darn sure better make the effort to let me know where the boundaries are and that he doesn't want me there.  If he does that, I will respectfully stay off of it.

Well said Gobblenet...

I've thought a little about this over the past few days.  If someone said "No you cant hunt" I wouldn't cross their line.  That's why I voted that it depends on the situation.  Some guys are diehard....I will not cross that line...I'm not.  Just depends. 
I can say this...if I shot a bird on my property and it flopped to a do not hunt my property landowner...I'm goin to get my bird. 

[Gut_Pile]

I voted "Under Certain Circumstances"

The reason being is I have a property that butts up to a club that I know the members of very well. I'm not in the club and I never start off on that property, but if a bird is gobbling over there it is not a problem for me to go over there and hunt him. Other than that I'm not crossing any property lines except to retrieve dead game

[3.5inchpainfulldeath]

I can honestly say I have never knowingly crossed a property line to kill a bird nor would I, BUT I will set up 40 yards from that line and call my heart out.

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[woodchip]

 

I hunt areas that are a mixture of public and private lands and on numerous occasions, I have had private landowners try to run me off of public property adjacent to their lands.  Almost always, this has been a case of them not marking their property boundaries so that they could try to claim I was on their property when I knew I was not.

That's a big problem around my area, give a landowner 50 acres and they think they own the face of the earth.  They know their lines but want all the game for themselves.  It's a greedy world.

[FttFttVroom!]

I hunt next to a guy who is vehemently opposed to hunting.  I love getting them to cross the fence and stand in front of my 870