Hunt Sabotage

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I found a site online that advocates sabotaging hunter's vehicles, firing into the air to scare game away, spraying repellents around, posting "No hunting" signs in popular areas, lying to rangers and game wardens, etc.


Have you ever had a hunt sabotaged?
 
Yes,.....neighbor ran a Cat for two days near my stands to build his new pond, noise scared everything off....at the time it sure seemed like sabotage.
 
If they get caught they can be charged or imprisoned. Hunters have a RIGHT to hunt. We sent a lady on a pre-paid trip to the local police office last year durin duck season. She saw where we were set up and decided she was going to fire up the boat and chase all the ducks away. Well, we called the marine police after a few minutes of drive-bys and incessant expletives directed toward us and our mommas and the ducks got up and flew around. They came straight back to us. So, she ended up watching us down 5 of "her" birds, and she had to go have a talk with the department.

Then there is the ongoing phenomena with the trucks at the boat ramp. There have been several trucks that have been vandalized. Keyed, spray painted, broken windows, lugnuts removed, tires slashed....none of it has been proven to be sabotage though. The police just make more runs through the lots and ask alot of questions about the cars that don't have DU stickers, camo, or a trailer behind it.
 
I've heard of it happening, but thankfully we're in that part of Texas where these shenanigans don't happen. Although sometimes I see a flock of goats and think sabotage.

What part of Texas? You know, everywhere but Austin!:D
 
The stupidity of the PETA types never ceases to amaze me. We ran into some a few years back who were running around banging pans together.

Though neither me or anyone I hunt with would ever dream of it, it has occured to me that there are people out there with much shorter and hotter tempers. So what are these anti's thinking, going out in the woods and deliberately pissing off a bunch of armed men that they already see as being ruthless savages? Seems rather foolish to me.
 
I figure that right after I call the local fish and game and the state fuzz my next call will be to the local news so I can explain how me, the poor hunter, is being harrased and or having my stuff vandlized. The antis are all about getting their skewd word out so I say this is a chance for us normal folks to beat them at their own game.

As much as I would want to drop them like some no account varmint it would only play right into their favor.
 
I've heard of some protesters at a boat ramp east of Houston one opening day of duck season. They protested at the ramp, all the hunters left, they hired a boat the next day. When they got out to the marsh, they found out they couldn't wade without risking losing their Reebocks in the muck, so that all gave up and adjourned the meeting to the local Starbucks. :rolleyes: I suspect these were of the Austin variety. They do tend to be dumber than dumb.
 
I've ridden range, checkin on fence and happened across a few of these PETA types, they are quite brave, at a distance but when they see my camera and the fact that I am filming thier license plates they get rarer n hens teeth. One must wonder how they feed themselves or even reproduce.
 
I could be wrong but I think you can get depredation tags for that problem. :D
 
Same here in PA, illegal, and carries some hefty fines also. Game commision guys have told us not to hesitate calling so it can be taken care of.
 
Never had one sabotaged by a person; but I hunt almost exclusively in a VERY rural part of the SC low country. That, and to get to our hunting land, you have to know where you're going or you'll never find it. I'm pretty sure the 24"x36" bright (reflective) yellow and black "WARNING: HIGH POWER RIFLES IN USE; NO TRESPASSING." signs don't hurt, either. ;)
 
I found a site online that advocates sabotaging
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Sounds like a good link to post. They might like a few thousand emails a day...


I hunt almost always on private land and never had any person bother me. I have seen videos of a guy in an ultralite buzzing over a field of bird hunters though.
 
I have seen videos of a guy in an ultralite buzzing over a field of bird hunters though.
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Sounds like a perfect opportunity for an unfortunate "hunting accident". Not that I'd ever advocate doing it, but it'd be pretty hard to prove the dumbass didn't just fly over right at the same time as a flock of geese, and the testimony that he clearly knew the hunters were there but was repeatedly flying in the danger zone anyway would make it pretty hard to get a conviction against the hunters. It's called self-endangerment.
 
Unfortunately yes! There are some pretty vicious people around. When I did hunter safety courses in CT we had to warn everyone about building wooden tree stands on private land. (They're not allowed on state land.) The antis were sawing part way thru the stands and we had one hunter severly injured when his stand let go and he fell. If you do leave a stand in the woods over night be sure you check it real well before you get in it. And use your safety strap all the time.
 
Never by people... but quite often by the very animals that I'm pursuing. They just don't know how to participate in a hunting season.
 
I've had one hunt ruined by a PETA guy who was walking his dog right through our hunting area. He had on orange and a PETA shirt, and was making a ton of noise. We hunt pretty far out, and it was a shock to see him there. No real point in doing much. It's not like anybody had a cell phone signal, and we never saw a car or anything. I suppose we could have done the ole 'citizens arrest' but that can get dicey from a legal standpoint, particularly if detaining him against his will and firearms become part of the equation.

We just called him a ****** bag and let him go. The cool part was later in the day, we killed two elk.

I've also had my truck vandalized by other hunters who didn't want me hunting in their area. They left me a nasty note after they broke all my windows and stole some stuff from inside. They said it was "their mountain" to hunt and to stay off it. I reported this to authorities, but nothing ever came of it. It's pretty messed up when our own people are ruining each others stuff.
 
Last day of firearm season I was hunting the edge of my property, the adjoining landowner came down about 100 yrds from me right at dusk and relieves himself on the deer trail from his property to mine, in the same direction the deer travel. Why people mess with people who have firearms ill never know.
 
Not really a Hunting sabotage, but I have a friend who manages 13 or 14 hog confinements here in Iowa, and he's having a lot of trouble with PETA. PETA has been cutting electrical wires and vandalizing his confinements for a few months now.
 
The police just make more runs through the lots and ask alot of questions about the cars that don't have DU stickers, camo, or a trailer behind it.

Hey, that's profiling!
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Ha ha yeah, let's all boycott the state of Alabama for profiling:rolleyes:

Yeah I've heard of crap like that happening but thankfully it has never happened to me.
 
I don't think they liked it when someone boogered up the "undercover" game-wardens truck at the ramp. Regular ole green f150 and the "patrol boat" is a green 18 ft center console flatbottom.
 
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