what would you do(tresspassers)

[Dry Creek]

I feel your pain, good luck dealing with the trespassers!!

[Cherokee Scout]

Not sure about this, but maybe hire atty and get restraining order to keep them of property. If served with restraining order, they will have no excuse if caught.

[bucksdown]

i'm assuming it's opening day of archery season. Adeeden mentioned a chain saw, i would take my chainsaw sneek up behind them, start my chain saw, tell them they have 2 minutes to unhook there safety belt, come down the tree leaving there gear in the tree, and exit my property. i beleve they would get a little excited if they choose not to and i began cutting down the tree. what do you think? good idea???  

[Running Buck]

Hide a few more game cameras. You need to stack the deck in your favor. The more evidence you can provide the better. You need to treat trespassers as the ultimate game animal to fill your tags!!

[sorno]

Sit in on one of his hunter education classes and ask him a few very pointed 'hypothetical' questions.  A game warden often sits in on those classes (at least out here they do).
S.

[Pete McMiller]

From what you describe, they are in trees on THEIR side of the fence - correct?  So, they are LEGAL unless/until they have to retrieve a deer on your property.  Have you talked to them, in person?  Have you told them that you will prosecute if the set foot on your property and you will not allow them to retrieve game?

Until they shoot something, this is an ethical issue, and only becomes a potential legal issue after they shoot something.  You go after them now and they will claim they are hunting their own field and are perfectly legal.  Talk to them and get this worked out before it becomes a legal issue for both of you.  IMO anything even remotely violent will get you in much more trouble than them.

[stickbowmaniac]

Yep i agree with Magnus.I'm also a hunter ed instructor and i wouldn't even think of stepping foot on someones property without permission.He would defintly get his license pulled if they get wind of that happening.Asking permission thats 1 of the commandments as us being hunters.

[Mojostick]

Pick that spot to start doing some nude sunbathing and nude yoga. When you see him, ask if he'd like to join you.

You'll never see him again!   :D        

[Mojostick]

Better yet, when you see him, ask if he could rub some suntan lotion of your back. LOL

He'll run away so fast that he'll run right out of his boots. LOL Free boots! LOL

[marsniper27]

pete this is already a legal issue he said they were poaching.

I would go with as many trail cameras as i can get and get them on video. you can probably get them in trouble for the poacher along with the trespassing if you can get them on camera again. I would wait to do anything else until i had them on camera.

After they are on film i would do something to limit there access or to scare any potential game of the part of the property they have been trespassing on.

[PAPA BEAR]

lmao @ mojostick.....dammit..ya made me spill my oj.      

[Buckeye Trad Hunter]

Originally posted by magnus:
He needs to be prosecuted go fullest extent of the law!!! I wouldn't want someone like this teaching my kids about hunter safety. I don't own my own land and rely on door knocking go get permission to hunt. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Guys like this gives us all a bad rap. Sorry to rant but this just really burns my butt!
Magnus

Exactly  

[Dustin Waters]

print the pictures out of them loading the poached deer on the four wheeler.  Laminate it and place it under your no tresspassing signs with a note that reads "this property is under constant patrol by the local DNR due to this event.  Anyone caught tresspassing, firing over property lines, or poaching will be prosecuted no questions asked.  AND YES THIS MEANS YOU TOO!  I'm watching."

[PAPA BEAR]

pm me your address bro i'll do it my way.the barta way.and a tube of suntan lotion.hahahahaaaa...really though contact the guys superiors and tell them what he's doing and it better stop as he's poaching.he'll get fired in 30 seconds unless his superior is one of them to.

[KSdan]

I always wanted to have a large stereo system in place for opening morning.  Just imagine as pink light is ready to break in, and on comes Robin Williams, "Good Morning Vietnam" followed by some great loud/screaming good ol' rock and roll like Boston.

[Ragnarok Forge]

There are a lot of evil non-violent ways to teach people lessons.  If and when you get the picks and videos I would go on every hunting blog site and post, post on the DRN and other government websites that let you, put up laminated pictures of the guy and his buddies with a big red Trespassing Poacher on the pics all over the local area at every store with a stick up board. Grocery stores, drug stores, sporting goods stores, you name it.  And just keep going by and posting pics as they are taken down.  Get his plates and find out his name.  Mail him, his wife and his buddies and their wives pics of their illegal activities ( anonymously of course.)  Send the pics to the local District Attorney with a letter an request to prosecute.  Make sure it is notarized!  Send the pics and a letter to the head of your game department, the governor and your senators. Mail the pics to his pastor and complain politely about his unchristian behavior.  Never get nasty, never get violent.  Talk about him and his buddies to everyone in your area.  Flat out make his life miserable.  And, prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.  The only way these things stop is when they are brought to everyones attention and the scofflaw suffers humilitation and financial loss.

If they want to play games.  Superglue in the door locks, potatoes in the tail pipe, etc.... always are good for a laugh.  A nice bright red poacher painted on his rig always makes a point.  ( these are of course illegal actions )  Cut up letters from a newspaper then put together with kids glue left in their stands explaining what is about to happen to them etc.... etc.... etc......  When the law is abused and the CO ignores you the game is on!

As for being threatened or my equipment damaged.  The law has nothing to do with my personal safety that superceeds the law and goes into my constitutional rights.  When trespass is ingnored that is again a constitutional issue.  When either is threatened, I know exactly how to deal with it.  Tolerance of this behavior is why it occurs.  Punishing it eventually leads to it stopping.

[Benjamin199]

I would invite my loud obnoxios Brother in-law to hunt and put him in a stand just on my side of the property line in front of their stands.

[LeverActionman]

We have the same problem a guy bought a house up the road from my house with 1 arce and thinks he got 1000 arces.My buddy caught him in his tree stand the first day of bow season last year and called the game wardon.Could not even get him to come out to say anything to the guy.My buddy ended up calling the game wardon 5 times and still has not seen him.Seems some people just dont care whos property they are on.

[JamesV]

Be very careful dealing with this issue. You could wind up being sued and LOOSE if you take the wrong approach. Besides landowners have been killed dealing with tresspassers or poachers. Getting pictures and letting the law handle it would be the way to go.........James

[lpcjon2]

Post the property and ghilie up and photo them and go to the local police not the CO.once they trespass they will be violating a non game law,and the local police can arrest if you prosecute.If they are instructors they are probably friends with the CO.