ID_shooting
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The thread that got this topic started was locked and I was not able to explain this out very well. Hopefully, this one won't get out of hand. If it does, I will ask it to be locked.
Western Culture is more than just the right of a property owner putting up No Trespassing/No Hunting signs. It is about treating your neighbors as well, neighbors. Out here in "good ole boy country," elitist and a “this is mine you stay away” greedy attitude are considered extremely rude. Yes a land owner has the right to do what ever he wishes on his land, including barring access if he wishes. No one will ever argue that. But putting up signs and gates to remind the locals that the new owner locked his property is a slap in the face to us. Ask people to stay off and word will get around quickly enough and people will stay off. Confronting people with loaded arms will get you forever shunned as a member of the community.
You see, out here we waive to each other, have conversations with complete strangers in the diner, invite people we just met and don’t know into our duck blind down by the river, help farmer Joe get his crop in if he is running behind, stop and assist strangers with flat tires and will let anyone walk a pheasant run with us. Live is just too short to be so uptight. It isn’t about letting people do what ever they want to your stuff, it is about common courtesy and the Golden Rule.
When people move into our culture and buy up fields we all have hunted for 50 years and immediately post them then run us off when we come up to the door to ask for permission we are truly offended. You may be in the right legally, but you can still offend people.
No one in the west will advocate cutting fences, pulling gates or destroying property. If this is happening, let the local sheriff know. Chances are he can find out quickly who it was. But setting traps that get people hurt or forcing people out with the threat of violence will bring on backwoods retaliation.
Anyone wish to add to that?
Western Culture is more than just the right of a property owner putting up No Trespassing/No Hunting signs. It is about treating your neighbors as well, neighbors. Out here in "good ole boy country," elitist and a “this is mine you stay away” greedy attitude are considered extremely rude. Yes a land owner has the right to do what ever he wishes on his land, including barring access if he wishes. No one will ever argue that. But putting up signs and gates to remind the locals that the new owner locked his property is a slap in the face to us. Ask people to stay off and word will get around quickly enough and people will stay off. Confronting people with loaded arms will get you forever shunned as a member of the community.
You see, out here we waive to each other, have conversations with complete strangers in the diner, invite people we just met and don’t know into our duck blind down by the river, help farmer Joe get his crop in if he is running behind, stop and assist strangers with flat tires and will let anyone walk a pheasant run with us. Live is just too short to be so uptight. It isn’t about letting people do what ever they want to your stuff, it is about common courtesy and the Golden Rule.
When people move into our culture and buy up fields we all have hunted for 50 years and immediately post them then run us off when we come up to the door to ask for permission we are truly offended. You may be in the right legally, but you can still offend people.
No one in the west will advocate cutting fences, pulling gates or destroying property. If this is happening, let the local sheriff know. Chances are he can find out quickly who it was. But setting traps that get people hurt or forcing people out with the threat of violence will bring on backwoods retaliation.
Anyone wish to add to that?