tresspasser kills bear on my property

skillet01 · 11-21-2010, 01:02 AM

We lease 200 acres in nw pa that we have posted. We have leased it for the past 4 years and pay good money to do so. Well this saturday the neighbors decided they would push out the entire area. They shot a bear on my hunting lease less thant 200 yards from my buddie at 7:30am. The tresspassers laughed at my buddie when he told them whey were on posted property. The continued to hunt on our lease after shooting the bear and shot several more times at another bear at 10am. My friend left the property after hearing the last shots. I was not at the property when this happened my friend told me this late saturday night. In the past we have ran into guys during gun season tresspassing and we told them to make their way off the property. This seams like they knew it was posted and did not care. How would you handle this.

Blackelk · 11-21-2010, 03:45 AM

All this modern technology and you haven't set up a trail cam on these guys yet? Put it up a slim tree where they can't get to it unless they have a ladder and point it down a trail. Maybe you'll get them. Straight to the sheriff's office I say. In Colorado you'd lose your licesnce for 5 years trespassing.

countertop · 11-21-2010, 04:04 AM

I would let the landlord know, and then call both the game warden and police. They will lose bear, it was poached. Assuming your lease gives you exclusive rights.

Do you know wether your landlord gave permission to the neighbor?

finnbear · 11-21-2010, 10:08 AM

Kinda late to do anything about it now...yer bud shoulda called the cops while they were there, so they could be caught in the act!!!!!!!

skillet01 · 11-21-2010, 05:45 PM

Found out who was one of the guys that were trespassing and was told "you don't want to mess with him ""he is a Big time red neck" We may have to let this one slide. I don't want to see tree stands and trail cameras comming up missing or worse .

the blur · 11-21-2010, 05:57 PM

Call the cops,
Call the DEC.

Done.

Or stop leasing the land.

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My leased land was poached so bad, there was nothing left for me on the 3 weekends I was up there.

Now I hunt on state land.

finnbear · 11-21-2010, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by skillet01

Found out who was one of the guys that were trespassing and was told "you don't want to mess with him ""he is a Big time red neck" We may have to let this one slide. I don't want to see tree stands and trail cameras comming up missing or worse .

Ya let him or his reputation scare ya off ya might as well just let the lease go cause, they will be back!!!!!! call the cops if they come back....they can't retaliate if they in jail, yeah they will get out, but if they even look at ya crosseyed call the cops............or just give up the lease!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sheridan · 11-21-2010, 07:10 PM

OR.................tell us where your lease is so we can all hunt on it too !!!

finnbear · 11-22-2010, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Sheridan

OR.................tell us where your lease is so we can all hunt on it too !!!

LOL!!!!! that's funny ....but I just looked out the window at the 40 or so acres that R out there and tried to picture being confined to an area 5 times as big as that, I came to the conclusion that I wouldn't know how to hunt 200 acres!!!!
Do U just go and sit some place?? or do U walk the area?? and if so what do U do for the rest of the day??

Bocajnala · 11-22-2010, 08:07 AM

Do you guys hunt bear??? If so, then you need to confront them about it. If not, then I'd say stop whining about it. You like to hunt, so do they. Let them drive it if you're not hunting bear.
-Jake