I'm in NC and you can pretty much do whatever you want looking for a dog. Myself and some others had to get pretty nasty with some bear hunters about 10 years ago. They let their dogs out in the road and would just put our gates down and drive through our land. Game wardens said nothing they could do.
I always said that about the game wardens. We have 430 square miles in the county, and a single warden. And as a LEO you know there is a small chance the guy you pull is armed. As s warden you know he is definitely armed and he will see you before you see him most likely.
In Wisconsin, you can be charged with trespassing if you allow your dog to wander on property you do not permission to access. You can also be charged with trespassing, if it can be proved you allowed a bullet to land on property you do not have permission to access. You do not need to post your land unless you border public land and folks need permission, either written or oral to access any private land. You as a hunter are responsible to know who's land you are on. None of this stops willful trespassing, but it does slow it down and it does give landowners the rights they deserve.
Yeah a father son team around here had something like that going on but they were caught very, very red handed. I think they were able to determine that they had collectively taken hundreds of illegal deer, they had tons of evidence against em. I wish I knew the end of the story, shouldn't be too hard to find but I'd like to know what the prison terms were. Game Wardens around here don't play, they would walk 50 miles uphill to catch a poacher in the act.
That's how it was here in Wisconsin years ago. Signs could not be more than 40 yards apart. Unscrupulous folks would go out the night before season and take down the signs and claim they had a right to hunt there because the signage was not legal. After paying for the land, paying taxes on it, stewarding the land and feeding the game on it, why should a landowner have to jump thru hoops to keep dirtballs off?
I'm so glad that has changed.
That's bogus. I wouldn't hunt land that was posted valid or not, if the landowner is there and posted it within the last couple years, I'd stay off it. If I really wanted to hunt a piece that was posted, there is no harm in asking for permission. As for the bozos tearing down signs, why the heck would you want to be somewhere you were not wanted.
...and IMHO, that is their right. I see many folks that never paid for land, never paid taxes on the land and never once helped the landowner with fences or clearing brush, etc. cry like babies when someone else buys the property and then doesn't allow them to hunt it. You want to hunt it, buy it, lease it or help out the landowner. Expecting a free lunch every year is just plain foolishness.
I think that's why North Carolina came up with idea for the purple paint we can use here. You can just spray paint trees, fence posts, etc. and Wally World sells it. I don't know the full regs off the top of my head. Anyway, it's s hard to pull paint down paint off a tree.
It's orange paint here in Idaho.
It's good that paint works there, too. It's way easier to paint, it doesn't come down easily, etc. I think the signs with owner info are still needed, just not as many and their absence doesn't mean someone can traipse into private property.It's orange paint here in Idaho.
Perfectly understood and agreed. But it is irritating nonetheless. Tons of acres that were free to hunt around here are posted up by guys with helipads and 3 or 4 homes and want to throw a 4th of July bash every year kind of thing. Not a matter of whether it's their right, they come here and act snobby and superior to the locals, and in my particular case I've had situations where well monied neighbors complain about my shooting on my lil slice, in some cases these are people with helicopters and have care takers who come down the right of way that cuts through the land and flip an attitude like they own everything. The type of people who don't throw up a wave back on the road, they don't know anything about being neighborly and cultivating good rapport and cooperation with surrounding neighbors. They act like they own it all. It's just a irritant more than anything, I have no wish to associate with people like that, but give me grief about occasional shooting and try to dictate terms and overstep their bounds on your own property, seems foolish.
Put up a game camera get the pictures advise the Sheriff and if they did shoot at anything that is trespass with a firearm and felony3rd degree in Fl
Utah alsoIt's orange paint here in Idaho.
Property disputes and trespassing on land, at least around here and by the VSP and CSD's are by their own admission, about the lowest of priorities. Sometimes they will flat out tell you that they don't get involved in trespassing, heck, half the time you're lucky if a LEO even responds to a burglary or theft.
Purple paint is only the equivalent of no hunting/ fishing. Not no trespass from what the statute says. Signs are still the only "no trespass" method. So the guy "bird watching" or "hiking" is still fine with purple paint. And even then if they are "looking for their dogs" they are allowed.
I'm in NC too, on 10 acres. However, I haven't had a lick of trouble, so I only glanced over the regs. I don't even have purple paint.
I don't have any either. I leave mine open. I do have people who post though, and I had the bear hunter incident too. Some of my land is detatched from where I live and is fairly remote so posting it would be useless anyway.
