City dwellers move to country and are shocked to find hunting !!!

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We have the same problem here in Colorado, becoming Calirado, and the liberal, safety nazi ideals that come with it. One of my friend that I shoot with often has access to 50 acres with a lake on it. We shoot there at times, no hunting at this point. There is a sub division about a quarter of a mile away and he has actually had the cops called on him. From what he told me was the cops sat on a hill, watched him, the property owner, and a couple other people for a while. They came down and actually confronted everyone, accusing them of shooting in the direction of the subdivision. Now the owner being ex-military, quickly called them on the foolish accusation and pointed out the targets that were set a safe direction against a short dirt berm. The cops went so far as to say the people in the subdivision said they heard bullets whizzing over them. Once again he pointed out the targets, that it was his property and being out in the country what they were doing was legal. The cops left and haven't been back. I wasn't there for all of this and may not be giving a 100% account of the occurrence but I know I have it accurate from what my friend told me. It is not only irritating to see these people come in and try to change everything, but that the cops in this case seemed to want to back them up. I am glad to see that some where in this country the authorities actually still know the law.
 
But some residents living in the neighborhoods around the vacant land say they are worried about safety — mainly for their children as they board school buses in the morning, sometimes while a hunt is under way.

"If they wanted to hunt, they could have gone farther south where there's no subdivisions," said one woman who lives near the property but did not want her name printed. "We just don't want that around here. Accidents happen."

The resident said she contacted Will County sheriff's police about the situation, and they told her that the hunting was legal — and that she should not have moved to the country if she did not like hunting.

Another resident who did not want her name printed said the hunting is "disturbing."

"It's just going to take one kid getting hurt," she said. "I know it's their land; they own it. But the chance, the opportunity, shouldn't even be there because hunters have accidents all the time."
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The same old mantras of modern life: Safety, "accidents happen," "disturbing," "one kid getting hurt." These are people who want to live in a hermetically-sealed suburban cocoon where reality is something that happens on reality tv and excitement is something in a video game. They worry about kids boarding school buses when they should worry about what these kids learn at school and the life experiences that they are never going to have because of the fear that there might be a "surprise" up ahead.

Pathetic.
 
That makes me really appeciate my parents' home in East Texas where I grew up. I can still fire up the Browning 1919 in the back yard and no one bats an eye.:neener: 130+acres of back yard, that is!
 
clueless individuals who aren't knowledgable about hunting (b/c they never done it) cannot be moving into the country demanding the same laws as their cities
 
scout26 said:
"If they wanted to hunt, they could have gone farther south where there's no subdivisions,"
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Until you clods moved in, this wasn't a subdivision, it was open country.

Jubei
 
longeyes said:
The same old mantras of modern life: Safety, "accidents happen," "disturbing," "one kid getting hurt." These are people who want to live in a hermetically-sealed suburban cocoon where reality is something that happens on reality tv and excitement is something in a video game. They worry about kids boarding school buses when they should worry about what these kids learn at school and the life experiences that they are never going to have because of the fear that there might be a "surprise" up ahead.

Pathetic.
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Well said Longeyes. And it is pathetic.
 
I know the scenario

Helped my Uncle build his house here in Ohio, nearest neighbor was just over 3/4 mile away. Now he's surrounded. Blissninny across the street calls P.D. or F.D. anytime there is gunfire or open burning. Both are legal in his neck of the woods. F.D. said next time she calls and they respond to legal happenings, she's getting a bill for turnout expenses. Uncle fires up his burn barrel at least once a week, now. :evil:
 
Things like this just burns me up. If I was the land owner I would invite everyone from the high road to come up for a duck hunt:evil:.
I have learned not to use the word "never" when talking about future plans. Well I will never move to a development with a homeowner association.... Never ever it is not going to happen ever, I promise. I hope my wife reads this :D. She was talking with her mom, and her mom was saying we should move to one of these yuppie developments with houses right on top of each other. I told them we would move there after I was dead because if I wanted to do something to my house and they said no I would tell them to go **** themselves and do it anyway. Her mom said they could foreclose on your home if you did. I said not they want because I am not moving somewhere like this in the first place. You could tell it annoyed her. She is really not bad and does not get into our business, but I wanted to end any thoughts of moving somewhere like this.
 
scout26 said:
"It's just going to take one kid getting hurt," she said. "I know it's their land; they own it. But the chance, the opportunity, shouldn't even be there because hunters have accidents all the time."
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No, no...I think more deaths and injuries are caused by distracted suburban soccer-moms on their cellphones plowing into someone with their oversized mallmobile SUVs.
 
"Maybe he's a safe hunter, but the point is, grow up. Move on to another cornfield," the first resident said.



Not that it's true, but I have a crystal clear mental picture of this person, just based on this statement. Probably drives a car with bumper stickers that say "Bring our troops home" and "Stop the dying in Iraq" while he/she zooms through traffic 15 miles over the speed limit cutting cars off to get ahead and following way too close behind the cars ahead.

Happens all the time here in SoFla, people are only as compassionate as their convenience will lead.
 
Next thing you know, these knucklehead ex-Chicagoans are gonna object that cattle leave foul-smelling flops in thier wake.
 
I thought chocolate milk came....

from those black and white cows. You pull the front two for white milk and the back two for choco.....I haven't figured how the cheese becomes yellow though............When I retire, in a year or less, I will settle on my land in east Texas. You should hear all the gunfire when the clock strikes midnight on new year's eve. Sounds like a war goin' on. When I first bought the property, the neighbors were always telling me of the "gun nuts down the road". Little did they know......................:evil: chris3
 
Moved away from Frankfort 7 years ago for this and other reasons.

Way to many city dwellers moving into the area for peace and quiet and then whining about how there is no place to shop.

Well you folks got it now dont ya.

Congestion in that area and just north in Mokena is horrible.

Will county is soon to be like Crook.
 
We own a few hundred acres in western South Dakota, just east of the Black Hills. The land is rolling hills and is just great if you like wide open spaces. Human population is pretty sparse.

A few years ago, some people from California purchased a few acres next door and built a great big house on top of a hill. After they moved in, they got bent out of shape about hunters, hunting, etc. on our land. Tough noogies, hunting is a way of life in those parts -- not gonna change for them!

In additon, they hated the wind. Now I gotta tell you that in that part of the world, a 25 mph wind is considered a light breeze -- it does tend to get a little windy there sometimes. But why anyone who does not like wind would build their house on the open prairie on top of a hill, is beyond me.

Anyway, they sold the house and moved back to their safe little liberal world in California.
 
This was a serious issue when I lived in IA. Not only did people complain about gunfire they would just about loose it when it was time to start spreading pig manure everywhere.

If you like the city don't move to the country. My wife and I live in a small subdivision, but I looked until I found one without any covenants.
 
I live in Atlanta, and this is a real problem close to where I live. Since traffic has developed into a huge problem, people have been buying small homes knocking them over, and then rebuilding new monstrocities. Well, the neighborhood behind me has seen a lot of this.

We also live very close to PDK Airport. I am now innindated with phone calls and flyers from idiots who just moved into the neighborhood and are upset that, oh my god, planes make noise when they take off and land.

As much fun as it is to give them hell when they call about their anti capitalism . . . I mean anti airport club, I just find it amazing that people are either a.) that stupid, or b.) have that much of an "after me you come first attitude."
 
City slickers who move to the country are also shocked to discover that roosters crow in the morning (EVERY morning) and you can't make them stop, that cow flops stink (other manure does too, and some folks might even bring in a truckload of it and scatter it in the field right next door), that farmers sometimes drive tractors at all hours of the day and night (in the field right next door), that old men often drive old pickup trucks reeeaaaalllly sslllloooowww down the highway (and weave a lot too, while they inspect the cows, crops, etc), that dirt roads have dust half the time and mud the other half- the list is too long to enumerate. But they are shocked, SHOCKED I say, to discover that country life is different.

lpl/nc
 
Sounds like the kind of people who move to the country to get away from it all and then build a McDonald's on every corner!:banghead:

But not all transplanted urbanites are like that...me, for one. I love the air, seeing trees, do a little plinking, and playing with the dogs. That's what it's all about, folks!;)
 
At the time, about 5 years ago, I think they sold it for about $350,000 which included ~ 5 acres. It was about a 3,000 square footer, if I remember right, very nicely appointed.

Over the last few years, both property and homes have continued to rise in the area, so I don't know what it would be today.
 
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