found evidence of Possible trespasser/poacher on my land.

[hobgob]

The landowner or approved others run the risk of hitting the interloper by accident.

Or possibly the interloper hitting the landowner or approved other.

 

[VINTAGE-SLOTCARS]

I have a sign that reads, "Experimental rattle snake free range farm" Please register before you enter. Funny but it works for me.

 

[aimbotter]

this sign should do it

I ultra dare you to make a sign like this and use it...

 

[hobgob]

I have a sign that reads, "Experimental rattle snake free range farm" Please register before you enter. Funny but it works for me.

Haha! very nice! not sure if that would work in Kansas though.

 

[Thin Black Line]

I found that State Police walking my perimeter for me had better results
than snake signs or cameras.

Oh, yeah, that's another story...

 

[Rembrandt]

....I have a sign that reads, "Experimental rattle snake free range farm" Please register before you enter. Funny but it works for me.

Might work in the Southern climates, but up North we never see rattle snakes when the temperature drops below 60. Trespassers are usually out in the fall and winter during deer season.

...I found that State Police walking my perimeter for me had better results

How do you get state police to guard your property?....are you their supervisor?

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

"Experimental rattle snake free range farm. Please register before you enter,"

 

[Dksimon]

WARNING!
Area Quarantined due to
"Quercus alba" infestation.

Quercus alba is latin for white oak. just pick a tree or plant on your land and find the latin word for it. chances are pretty good that most people wont know that you are talking about a tree but will assume something far worse

 

[IndianaBoy]

I read the comment about someone having a poacher pointing a gun at them ON THEIR OWN LAND.... and all I can think is that it would open up an entirely new hunting season.

 

[MCgunner]

In Texas, if you are on private property, you're trespassing. Don't matter if there's a fence or signs. The big ranches, especially ones with populations of exotics, have a big problem with this. I read that the trespass laws were stiffened a while back because of this.

 

[Thin Black Line]

I found that State Police walking my perimeter for me had better results

How do you get state police to guard your property?....are you their supervisor?

No --and I'm not the governor in my state either. Some dork-knockers a
couple doors down on my side of the county road decided to play with
explosives which resulted in a 911 from me that went something like
this:

TBL: I'd like to report am explosion south of my property. I just heard the
sound and can see a cloud of smoke rising about x00 yards away.

911: How do you know it was an explosion and not a car crash or a gunshot?

TBL: I just got back from Iraq x months ago and I know *** an explosion
sounds like, now send someone out here right now.

911: State police are on the way....

Of course, they came to my door first. Yeah, let's check how TBL is doing
today.

Good thing the cop was on my doorstep when the SECOND one went off
because it started off with him saying "We don't hear or see anything going
on out here...." KABOOOOOM!

Believe me now? "Yes, please excuse us..."

Yes, two car loads of partnered up SP out walking the fields and a SP plane
circling overhead really does make a difference against ALL illegal activity
going on in your area. All that was missing was a counter-sniper team
taking to a rooftop

 

[Geno]

I liked the technique used by one of our previous neighbor's for controlling tresspass. He had multiple signs that read:

WARNING
DO NOT ENTER
HIGH-POWER
RIFLE RANGE​

He had his benches set-up outside his back porch, and standing targets at the rear of the propery line about 1,000 yards out. That caught attention real quick. I was always tempted to ask permisson to use his range. However, in the course of two years living there, I never once heard a shot fired. I have always wondered if it was for affect only. {8^)

Doc2005

 

[Thin Black Line]

I actually did do the rifle range sign thing followed by some real shooting.

This just caused the insurgents, er trespassers, to circle around and trespass
in a different area.

 

[Aaron12]

put a sign up saying "trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again" works every time

 

[Eagles6]

Well it seems that you have it well posted. Game cameras would be my next shot. Send em copies of the pics and say "If this doesn't stop they go to the police or game commission. Don't !@#$ with me and I won't !@#$ with you".

 

[trueg50]

Lay down extremely conspicuous and very large bear traps.

They don't have to work, just look scary. Maybe put up a sign that says "warning trapping area" or something like that. Just gotta scare them thats all.

 

[bobby n.]

the biggest problem ive had is with these punk kids on atvs tearing up my property. riding across and just plain havoc. one likes to ride up and down the road out front of my house with no muffler on the atv. hes easy to hear. i caught 4 on my land last monday, and one nearly ran me over trying to get away. i know i should have called the law, but they take two hours to respond..i guess ill just have to put metal fences up and deny access to everyone ..its a shame its come to this

 

[interlock]

Trespassing in the uk

The uk is small. We have quite a dense population. (dense is also slang for stupid ) there is no public land.

Anyone that owns land or shoots land has a constant battle trying to keep poachers and trespassers off. We are plagued by kids on motorbikes and guys in 4 x 4s as well as poachers.

I have found that just speaking to the guys poaching etc rarely works. Firearms are very very strictly licensed here. one conviction and you can say good bye to your firearms certificate. i tend to say "please leave the land today and nothing further will come of it, however, i know who you are and if you come back i will have to report you for trespassing with a firearm" the poacher knows that means that they will lose thier guns.

we also are plagued with guys using 4 x 4 vehicles and big lurchers to course deer. These guys tend to play hardball and will cut up rough when confronted. best to call the police when dealing with this kind of person. although some game keepers have shot thier dogs in the past.

It is a problem

 

[MilsurpShooter]

I hunt a Multiple Use Area that's largely surrounded by private land. Not a very large spot but convenient to get too, well defined hiking and mountain biking trails and all sorts of great little nooks and crannies. I often go hiking there when it's not hunting season. However it's bordered on all sides by private land, roughly 3 miles through the woods northbound you come to a very large town, on another portion you come across a nice horse farm (Bow and shotgun area only for a reason )

Anyhow, the most effective way I learned what was OK hunting land and what was posted (And believe me, you can round one of the corners of a trail and have nothing but open land on the left and a row of posted on the right) and that was the posted signs and yellow spray paint.

You see the posted signs work well but in certain areas, well there's no suitable place to put them. So a large rock was painted yellow. I'd guesstimate that in areas with unsuitable tree's for the signs there was a yellow rock roughly every 15-30 feet, one visible from another so you can tell the boundary line.

Hopefully, the "poacher" in your area is someone who had permission from someone, didn't notice the downed fence and stumbled in. Seeing a permanent tree stand he figured he'd hit his lucky day and other people or the person he had permission from knew this was a decent hunting area. Downed fence and heavy traffic could mean either other hunters or good deer traffic.

Best course of action, talk to the neighbor, see if he's given permission for people to hunt his land, let him know that they've been wandering over, he can re-affirm the property lines. If he hasn't given permission then you have an inkling that something else might be going on. Put the fence back up, and put a posted sign right on that section, leave no room for error. Odd occurrences still happen after that's done then you know you have something else entirely.

Hopefully it's just someone who had permission from the guy who owns the land to your south and didn't know the property line. 260 yards in isn't extremely far. Hopefully just a misunderstanding that can be cleared up before it goes the route of fines and revocation of a hunting license.

 

[nathan]

Yes, footprints in the ground is a big giveaway for these poachers. Beer cans and water bottles strewn around. Toilet paper s etc.

 

[xx7grant7x]

here's hoping heinous humans halt hurtful hunting

 

[Gunsafe]

I hunt with a friend of mine on his land and we had issues a few years ago with trespassers. The road next to the property had this little area where you could pull off and were essentially hidden from site. Once we figured out what had been going on, we took several 6 foot 1x4s and drove as many 16 penny nails through them as possible. We took them back out to the pull off area and put them on the ground after we'd leave. A little dirt and some grass to cover them up and voila, homemade spike strips. A few broken boards later we didn't have troubles anymore. But then again there's always next year.....

 

[Aren't we all]

I have about 12 acres in a very dense swampland/forest and have a big problem with tresspassers. They are even so bold to take potshots at my domestic turkeys 100 yards from my house itself. I also live on a large road so it is hard to control acess. Anway the forest is very dense and hard to move through quietly. All the ATV acess roads I have put down nails and cameras, their are also fake claymore mines- the airsoft types with bbs in them, but I took the bbs out and put in lead shot in so when they go by it explodes and they got showered in shot. It's not powerful enough to take an eye out but it scares the bejebers out of them and it is so funny to watch.Also I stakeout a very popular area with 12 gauge and rubber buckshot.

 

[41magsnub]

I have about 12 acres in a very dense swampland/forest and have a big problem with tresspassers. They are even so bold to take potshots at my domestic turkeys 100 yards from my house itself. I also live on a large road so it is hard to control acess. Anway the forest is very dense and hard to move through quietly. All the ATV acess roads I have put down nails and cameras, their are also fake claymore mines- the airsoft types with bbs in them, but I took the bbs out and put in lead shot in so when they go by it explodes and they got showered in shot. It's not powerful enough to take an eye out but it scares the bejebers out of them and it is so funny to watch.Also I stakeout a very popular area with 12 gauge and rubber buckshot.

Uh huh

 

[buck460XVR]

I hunt with a friend of mine on his land and we had issues a few years ago with trespassers. The road next to the property had this little area where you could pull off and were essentially hidden from site. Once we figured out what had been going on, we took several 6 foot 1x4s and drove as many 16 penny nails through them as possible. We took them back out to the pull off area and put them on the ground after we'd leave. A little dirt and some grass to cover them up and voila, homemade spike strips. A few broken boards later we didn't have troubles anymore. But then again there's always next year..

Sorry Gunsafe, but what you did was as illegal as the trespassing......and you endangered other folks and possible criminally damaged their property that had nothing to do with the trespassing. In the eyes of the law, you are on the same level(or lower) as the trespassers. Two wrongs still do not make a right.