Deer stand thefts and security

[swampgator]

In Texas, if you're on private property and it ain't yours, no matter if it's posted or fenced, you're trespassing and it's now a felony to poach on private property. It's cutting down on all the trespass, but there are still those that do it.

Technically it is that way here, however a lot of times you'd get the "I'm able to hunt the property next to here, didn't realized I'd crossed over a property line." So you issue them a warning. Next time they're caught would be time to drop the hammer on them. In FL it's a felony to fire across property lines, "trespass by projectile" and it's been a felony to knowing trespass with a firearm.

 

[Bill99]

I found my stand missing today. Hunting starts next week and looks like I will not be hunting deer.

 

[Flintknapper]

MCgunner wrote:

Not that I would, but you CAN legally use deadly force to protect property in the state of Texas.

Yes, but let’s be careful to point out….that it is very much “conditional”.



§ 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is
justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or
tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the
other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the
deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of
arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the
nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing
immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated
robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the
property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or
recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to
protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or
another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

 

[Art Eatman]

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