.41 magnum man
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I happen to own some land behind my house. My dad and 2 of my brothers own land that joins mine, and between us, my kids, and their kids, we have decided that we have just enough room for us to hunt without getting in each other's way, and won't let anyone else in without permission from all the others. We began this when one brother let in a guy to hunt once on his place, but the guy thought he could just come back whenever he wanted. Since we all worked in town at the time, we didn't know for a while he was still hunting the place until my sister in law saw him one day. And the way our properties lay, you can't help but cross each others land to get to certain places. (I have to cross my brother's place to get to a certain ridge that I own.) This guy had went beyond where my brother had said and was even in some of my good spots stinking up the place. So we have not let anyone else in since then.
Now I am a taxidermist and work at home. Some of my customers ask me if they can hunt on my place and I explain to them why I don't let anyone. Most are good about it, but some want to be pushy. I guess they think I owe them something since I get to mount their animal. And some of these guys come in bragging about all the land they get to hunt on, and still act offended if I say no. (And I have never been invited to another property. And I don't ask either.)
And one time, one time, I decide to let this guy hunt on my place after he has asked me several times. He was a good customer, but mainly just seemed like a decent, polite guy. He hunts in all seasons with all weapons, so one day I told him, "I tell you what, since part of my family doesn't bowhunt, then I'll let you come down during bowseason. I have a ladderstand on a certain place where I ususally get one or two a year, and you can hunt there."
Without a pause he answered back, "No, I will bring my gun during rifle season and I will just go back there and find me a place I like, and hunt it."
Of course, he shot himself in the foot, and everyone else's too.
One other thing that gets me is people who think they can ride an ATV on your property without permission. I caught a guy one day on a rinky dink 2 wheel drive atv stuck on the side of a hill, spinning a big hole in the trail. I came up behind him, and he didn't even know I was there. I asked him, "What are you doing here?" He said he just saw this trail and thought he would see where it went. He said two of his buddies even told him they shouldn't be on it. I looked up, and there the two other guys were sitting above us on the trail. I ran them all off with a good chewing, and dog gone if about a week later my neighbor caught another two guys on our place. They were even dumb enough to admit they knew the other guys I had run off and had been told by them not to come down here! Good for those suckers I wasn't there.
I have even met people who think that if you own land, you owe it to everyone else to let them hunt, and that to post your land was being a selfish low down dirty dog. Well, if anyone reads this and thinks that way I have the same question for you that I had for them: Do you leave the keys in your vehicle for anyone who wants to drive it, regardless of who they are, at anytime they want? Why not let anyone who wants come into your house and take over the place? It is exactly the same thing.
Now I am a taxidermist and work at home. Some of my customers ask me if they can hunt on my place and I explain to them why I don't let anyone. Most are good about it, but some want to be pushy. I guess they think I owe them something since I get to mount their animal. And some of these guys come in bragging about all the land they get to hunt on, and still act offended if I say no. (And I have never been invited to another property. And I don't ask either.)
And one time, one time, I decide to let this guy hunt on my place after he has asked me several times. He was a good customer, but mainly just seemed like a decent, polite guy. He hunts in all seasons with all weapons, so one day I told him, "I tell you what, since part of my family doesn't bowhunt, then I'll let you come down during bowseason. I have a ladderstand on a certain place where I ususally get one or two a year, and you can hunt there."
Without a pause he answered back, "No, I will bring my gun during rifle season and I will just go back there and find me a place I like, and hunt it."
Of course, he shot himself in the foot, and everyone else's too.
One other thing that gets me is people who think they can ride an ATV on your property without permission. I caught a guy one day on a rinky dink 2 wheel drive atv stuck on the side of a hill, spinning a big hole in the trail. I came up behind him, and he didn't even know I was there. I asked him, "What are you doing here?" He said he just saw this trail and thought he would see where it went. He said two of his buddies even told him they shouldn't be on it. I looked up, and there the two other guys were sitting above us on the trail. I ran them all off with a good chewing, and dog gone if about a week later my neighbor caught another two guys on our place. They were even dumb enough to admit they knew the other guys I had run off and had been told by them not to come down here! Good for those suckers I wasn't there.
I have even met people who think that if you own land, you owe it to everyone else to let them hunt, and that to post your land was being a selfish low down dirty dog. Well, if anyone reads this and thinks that way I have the same question for you that I had for them: Do you leave the keys in your vehicle for anyone who wants to drive it, regardless of who they are, at anytime they want? Why not let anyone who wants come into your house and take over the place? It is exactly the same thing.