dmftoy1
Member
Ok, I was sitting here this morning just taking it easy and we had a knock on the door. Turned out some guys had been bow hunting about 1/2 a mile down the road and had shot a VERY VERY large buck which they had tracked to the otherside of the river from my place. They wanted to know if they could track the deer across my property and I told them "of course".
We went out with my dog on a leash and picked up the trail on my side of the river and followed it a bit. Just as we were getting to the edge of my property the buck jumped up (obviously wounded) and took off. I could see it run across my neighbor's land and onto the neighbor's just beyond and lay down.
I went back to my place and jumped in my truck and drove down to the neighbor's and got permission for these guys to go in and get the deer. (I don't know these guys at all) Anyway, when they were going to get the deer it jumped up and made it back across the river before dying on yet another neighbor's land. We wanted to make sure it was dead so we sat there for probably 30-45 minutes watching it and while we did the neighbor, who's land the deer ran across when he left my land, came down and started ripping the bow hunters a new orifice about "poaching" on his land. I told the guy that the deer had run onto my land and across it before running across his land, so they definately hadn't poached it on his land, and that that we were merely trying to ensure that a wounded deer didn't die and go to waste. He kept throwing a hissy fit so I finally just left and went home. (The bow hunters got permission from the final land owner go an retrieve their deer so it didn't go to waste) I've never had a bad relationship with the guy who was throwing the fit, so it kind of caught me by surprise.
I've been sitting here somewhat pissed off all afternoon because I couldn't believe the gumption of the one landowner who had the attitude that it was better for the deer to have died on his land and not been retrieved (it only ran ACROSS his land) than it was for these guys to have gotten permission to retrieve it. How would you have dealt with this guy . . . .taking into account that I live next to him and plan on doing it for quite a while?
Thanks for listening.
Have a good one,
Dave
We went out with my dog on a leash and picked up the trail on my side of the river and followed it a bit. Just as we were getting to the edge of my property the buck jumped up (obviously wounded) and took off. I could see it run across my neighbor's land and onto the neighbor's just beyond and lay down.
I went back to my place and jumped in my truck and drove down to the neighbor's and got permission for these guys to go in and get the deer. (I don't know these guys at all) Anyway, when they were going to get the deer it jumped up and made it back across the river before dying on yet another neighbor's land. We wanted to make sure it was dead so we sat there for probably 30-45 minutes watching it and while we did the neighbor, who's land the deer ran across when he left my land, came down and started ripping the bow hunters a new orifice about "poaching" on his land. I told the guy that the deer had run onto my land and across it before running across his land, so they definately hadn't poached it on his land, and that that we were merely trying to ensure that a wounded deer didn't die and go to waste. He kept throwing a hissy fit so I finally just left and went home. (The bow hunters got permission from the final land owner go an retrieve their deer so it didn't go to waste) I've never had a bad relationship with the guy who was throwing the fit, so it kind of caught me by surprise.
I've been sitting here somewhat pissed off all afternoon because I couldn't believe the gumption of the one landowner who had the attitude that it was better for the deer to have died on his land and not been retrieved (it only ran ACROSS his land) than it was for these guys to have gotten permission to retrieve it. How would you have dealt with this guy . . . .taking into account that I live next to him and plan on doing it for quite a while?
Thanks for listening.
Have a good one,
Dave