Are we talking about hunters or illegals?
If they are killing wild hogs on my buddy’s ranch, we load up, drive out to say “hi,” let them know where the livestock is so they don’t accidentally shoot a cow, and invite then back to the house after they’re done for a snort of whiskey! Then make sure they know to call before coming back out - any time!
/wild hogs are very nasty and destructive...
I lived in White Bluff, Tn. and had trouble with a gang of poachers that lived down the road shooting game and stealing my herbs to sell. I invited a friend of mine who was a class III firearms dealer down to have a little shoot. He brought all of his toys and we burned up a bunch of full auto rounds on my range that day. Never had a problem after that.
Medieval Hunting History - Punishments for breaking Medieval Hunting Laws
The strict Medieval Forest Laws reserved the rights of hunting to the ruling class and were hated and resented by the lower classes. Punishments for breaking Medieval Hunting Laws were severe. Peasants accused of poaching were liable to hanging, castration, blinding or being sewn into a deerskin and then hunted down by ferocious dogs.
I have some land across the road from a hunting club.
I’ve given the game warden and only him permission to hunt on the land. He’s set up cameras to catch deer and poachers.
Difficult for a poacher to claim he was just chasing a deer onto my property and he pulls the camera and asks what he was doing there 3 days before.
When I was a young lad of five, I was out in the field with my father when a group of four people stopped along the road about 100 yd from us, jumped the fence, and started cutting asparagus from our garden.
My father yelled at them and they barely looked up, ignoring him. My father then walked around the old Chevy station wagon, pulled out a scoped deer rifle, took careful aim, and blew out a chunk of telephone pole about 10 feet over their heads.
The four came to life and fell all over themselves getting back over the fence and driving away as fast as they could.
That was 45 years ago and I can still hear my father screaming, “You can hear me now can’t you, you sons-of-a-bitches!”
We scored four asparagus knives that day, as they dropped them where they stood.
I think he is being an ass. Wild hogs are pests and anyone would be welcome to shoot any they found on my land.
He should have thanked the men for shooting the hogs. Just wait til the others find his garden.
He should have thanked them, claimed a hog, and asked them to call next time they were going to hunt on his property.
I don't hunt, not because I have any objections but because I think it's too much work. However, I do make use of the target ranges.
How very Margaret Kinnons Rawling.
Don’t know what the picture has to do with poaching looks like a standard legal deer camp to me.
Buddy Hackett duck hunting story...
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=buddy+hackett+duck+hunting+story&view=detail&mid=04404CA9D993F3B6F75F04404CA9D993F3B6F75F&FORM=VIRE2
[[How do you deal with Poachers?]]
I tell them I like my eggs sunny side up
Bury them.
Wild hogs are a plague and this owner knows it......
With that being said, I guess if I were this property owner I'd likely be pissed off too. But if the hunters had come up to my door and asked to hunt the hogs on my property, I'd have let them..........
Who knows, maybe the landowner hunts the hogs himself and feels the poachers have taken away his rightful game..........
What a conundrum.........
That sentence has within it the answer to the problem.
Or maybe the reason for the problem.
Those who have owned land all their lives or raised in the country would have handled it differently.
When the hogs get in this guys precious asparagus, he will wish he had handled it differently.
Guess my first comment here was not well written.
The point was wild hogs suck, and someone shooting wild hogs on the edge of my buddy’s ranch well away from livestock would be OK with us.
That said, poachers who enter the ranch (besides a few feet off the road) without permission or endanger livestock are scum and deserve what they get.