ORIGINAL: manuman
ORIGINAL: Sylvan
Crossing the border and changing how his stand is hung as manuman did is really foolish not to mention arrogant and illegal.
Considering that I had the okay from the game warden, whom I aided in having 2 poachers arrested the week before,I think you might want to be a little more careful before you make such insulting and baseless statements. I have had my entire season ruined to this point by poachers, and I would like to know how you, with such limited knowledge, jump to such a conclusion.First, I have 2 poachers trespassing during a bowhunt that claim to own the land I have permission from the actual owner, then a 9 pointer shot on the trail I was hunting with bow, with a .22 rifle the night before I found it, a gut pile left at a scrape that I had been hunting, and 2 tresspassers walk in, set up within 75 yards of me, while one goes to another part of the property and shoots a buck with a rifle, that he only wounds and I find it, back track it, and find the evidence needed for his arrest, have to ask 3 different tresspassers to leave on the opening day of gun season--all on land that I have exclusive rights to and bowhunt only. Add to that , that I had been closing in on a huge 10 pointer that I saw the week before, and was poised and ready after all of my hard work to close the deal.I put in 95% of my efforts for the entire season into this land, only to see it taken away by some very dishonest and disreputable slob hunters---and thenI go to my club in Greene county Ga, to find more of the same, take the necesarry and validated actions to rectify it, and you , with a very limited and uninformed perspective, want to call me 'illegal' and 'arrogant'!?!?I have the officers personal cell phone with me for just such occasions. I work hard and have put in a lot of time and money to have poachers steal from me. Then to add insult to injury, you come to a very self righteous and assumptive, not to mention wrong conclusion.
I repeat, it is arrogant and illegal to go on to someones property without their permission and move a tree stand and if you are saying that a game warden gave you the o.k. to do it I simply don't believe you. A game warden has no right to give you permission to go on to private property, they know that and would nevertell you to do such a thing.
As far as making assumptions, I made none. I simply took what you siad at face value and you said what you did quite clearly....
"I have had my fill of this type of 'hunter' and others who go even further. This past wekend, I didn't see the number of deer I normally do from an area, so I did some investigating to find out why. i found 1 stand located very similar to the one described here, soI politley turned it the other direction, facing away from our property--with a note. " No assumptions necessary, you went on to someone elses property and turned a stand in a different direction. If I had caught you on my property up in one of my trees messing with one of my tree stands I would have had you arrested.
Man some people have a lot of nerve!