Trespasser stories...what's yours?

[MouthCaller]

I've had a guy try to blame me for trespassing on his place on this forum! After a chat he apologized and also admitted to me that he was the person that I caught on my trail cam on our side of the property! Do people not realize that you can pull up a map of property online and it tells you the property owner? Your phone can also be used to gps your location to know that you are on the right place.

[Rapscallion Vermilion]

Trespassing can be a problem out here in the west, as well, but here is another perspective on it.  We have just as many problems with landowners and outfitters trying to keep the public off of public lands.  We have those folks who will post public lands as being private and confront hunters about hunting on public lands that they are trying to bluff people into thinking is privately owned.

Almost every public hunter I know has had one or more experiences with people claiming they are on private land when, in fact, they are on public.  If you hunt out here in the west, you should always obtain land status maps of the area you are hunting to avoid being harassed by people doing this.   

I agree, I've seen this too many times. Oh man, I get steamed about this. It is stealing, really.  That and landlocked public lands.  I had a really great quail hunting canyon in SW New Mexico get landlocked on me. Hard to get to, but really pristine and holding Gambels and Scalies. The former land owner allowed passage to gain access.  The gate is padlocked now.

[howl]

It happens in the East, too. I knew a crew in high school that actually went to the expense of buying POSTED signs to re-label a small bit of WMA.

BTW, one of my honey holes on public often has me killing one while sitting under a posted sign. They posted a little over onto the public side and arranged the signs to make it looked like their line cut off access. They even tried spreading corn along the line one year, I guess to scare people off. I had to have the warden go talk to them about bait and turkey season.  At least they post it, though. Most lines lack the signs hereabouts. Strange to me, but I guess if locals hunt free on weekdays anyway, why bother?

[greentag]

we have a problem of people tresspassing and stripping the bark off of elem trees,they suposedly sell it for a lot of money,anyway theres some land that this older vietnam vet owns,he only allows me and one other guy to hunt his property,and we kinda keep an eye on things as hes getting up in years.one day i go in there and there is trees stripped everywhere,i tell him and the other guy about it,this makes the landowner extremely mad,and hes the type that would actually shoot someone doing it cause he plain dont care.that week the old man loads up two differant ar's and rides from his house on a 4 wheeler,hides the 4 wheeler and sits up a little brushy blind and plans on getting them,there is railroad tracks that join the property,here comes two guys up the tracks with bags,one of them sees the trees and they walk up to them looking up at them,the old man stood up with the ar and tells them they have peeled there last tree and some more choice words of what he was getting ready to do to them,they start begging him,telling him they were mushroom hunting and didnt do it,they had just seen them and was wandering what had happened,when the man walked down to check to see if they were lying about having mushrooms,he ended up knowing them.the  ole man told me that he had almost shot 2 inocent people,and he didnt go back to try to catch them,the next week me and the other guy that are allowed to hunt were down in there,we hear people talking,we sneak up and theres 2 guys peeling the trees,we step out with a gun pointed on them and asked them what they are doing,they didnt know what to say,we gave them the choice  of we could call the law or the ole man,they chose the law.they were released a week later,these 2 had been in trouble for everything under the sun,they were ordered to pay the old man several thousand dollars in restatution set up in payments,he got maybe two small checks and they quit paying,they are now in jail for theft,and child support,drugs and a bunch of  other things.if i was a tresspasser i would kinda be scared,you never know when you may be on someones land like this ole man,there isnt a doutb in my mind that if he had caught them in the act he would have killed both of them,they are plenty of people around here just like him.

[turkaholic]

 Once you get past the first few signs it's good going, just you and the posted signs

[Chilly]

I usually have my wife drop me off but only on a dirt road and always at least a couple hours before daylight.  I usually use a crossbow so I don't make noise.  Once I kill a bird I call her on my cell and have her pick me up at one of three predetermined pick up spots.  One word of caution is always watch for electric fences in the dark.  I've not been busted yet so to say I do it well would be in order.

There's really no point in waking her up early.  Just park your truck and raise the hood.  Leave an empty quart of oil under the hood and leave your flashers on.  Your good to go where ever you want!!! lol

[FullChoke]

There's really no point in waking her up early.  Just park your truck and raise the hood.  Leave an empty quart of oil under the hood and leave your flashers on.  Your good to go where ever you want!!! lol

And when you come back, your battery and all 4 wheels are gone....

[Chilly]

Anybody remember the old TK and Mike hunting comedy videos.  They carried around "G" stickers to put on the "No Hunting" signs to make them say "Go Hunting".  Funny stuff back in the day!