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From: decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!hank@uunet.UU.NET (Hank Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Deterring hunters on private property: planning ahead
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.063247.20842@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 11:32:47 GMT
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Every September, I have to go sit out on my back 40 with a bunch of signs,
red flags, whistles, the ham radio and (well, never mind the other 
deterrents).  I have no problem with deer hunting per se, and no quarrel
with people who want to walk across private property on their way to hunt
deer on public property.

But I could use some conversation here to plan ahead, if y'all will help.

Here are my concerns:
1) people shoot up my fruit trees
2) people drive 4x4s through at night 'cross country'
3) people set up around the spring  last fall I had two kids both in
   heavy camo gear setting on opposite sides of the springbox, both
   hidden in my windbreak plantings, aiming AT each other. They did not
   know I or the other guy was there 'til I walked up and moved'em on.

The older guys who've been hunting this area since before I was born are no
problem; pleasant to talk to, clean up their own shit.

But the young kids wearing black and green face paint and camo outfits with
new guns and truly zombielike attention show up and are worrying me. One
of them practically shat his pants when I walked up behind him to move him
off the property; if I`d been a deer I could have gored him (grin).

Comments welcome. I'd like to figure out some way to post the boundaries
that does not invite people to shoot through the signs into my living area,
for instance.  Maybe yellow=tape the whole perimeter in plastic flagging
....

Again, I have no problem with hunting; it's cleaning up the place that gets
to me. I risk being out there because if I'm not there opening weekend, I
get people camping/shitting/burning/shooting/stealing in the area.

If there are any selfregulating hunters' organizations, I'd like to meet
some of them and invite them out for the deer season next fall.