Posted on 12/16/2015 1:13:37 PM PST by w1n1
There isn't a clear answer on deterring poachers. The subject itself brings a sharp pain to every landowner’s asses. The right way to handle this is to let the authorities handle this. The following is an excerpt from a landowner on this ordeal and how he handled it.
David was a proud new landowner. He bought his 640-acre place in the rural South and started fixing up the old farm house. His land had a garden, fields for planting, built wood duck boxes, and stocked two lakes with bass and pan fish.
Life was good for the new country landlord until one morning he heard a gunshot, then two, three, five and more. They were close–on his property. No one had permission to hunt, so David got in his truck and took off for the back of his square mile of paradise, while his wife nervously watched him drive away.
Ten minutes later David spotted a pickup truck alongside a county road that abutted his land. Three men were near it, two of them across a fence on David’s property. A lifelong hunter, David sensed trouble, but he purposefully was unarmed as he drove up beside the men, stunned at what he saw.
Five wild hogs were dead on the ground, shot on David's land from a public roadway. The hogs were wild, but in Florida they are classified not as game animals, but private livestock, so penalties for shooting them are even more severe than illegally shooting wild game.
"Fellows, those are my hogs you got there," David said calmly.
"Them's wild pigs, no season, no limit," one of the men said fast and nervous. "Seen 'em cross the road, we pulled over and shot 'em 'fore they got to the fence - they jus' died on your side. We're fixin to load 'em and take 'em home."
"Well, shootin from a public road right-of-way isn't legal, and I sure didn't give you permission to shoot 'em on my land," David continued as he stepped out of his truck. "We better let the game warden sort this out."
One of the threesome got into his truck, and David watched the man carefully. Then David dialed his cell phone for the local warden. Read the rest of the story here, what's your experiences with this?
Poachers would have had them cut up long before hanging them up like that.
#12 If they looked like these guys, I would let them go : )
http://www.screeninsults.com/images/deliverance-duo.jpg
Moronic straw man argument.
Are you OK with strangers running around on your property?
If they are hunting for pests, yes.
Thanks!
I live in a private airpark.
4000 feet X 100 feet runway that is ALWAYS being attacked by wild pigs of every size.
We shoot em any time day or night an leave em for the buzzards.
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