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From: mireley@horus.cem.msu.edu (John Mireley)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Re: Deterring hunters on private property: planning ahead
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.172338.29101@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 22:23:38 GMT
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>From article <1991Apr26.063247.20842@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, by decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!hank@uunet.UU.NET (Hank Roberts):
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> .....
> 
> 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.

Some property owners around here rent their land to hunters with the
understanding that the hunters will post the property and police it. I
would suggest archers as they get out early in the season. If there is a
lot of room in your area to hunt this probably would not work.

John Mireley