i hear ya on that burnie.... my cousin was hunting some family land that adjoins one our plots in AL (reminder, this is land that HE and his Dad - my great uncle - own)... he gets approached by 6 guys hunting the same piece of land and gets ran out of his own property literally at gun point... the down side is this... in the area our families land is, if you call DNR or police and report the incident the guys will come out and toss a match and torch the property and as dry as its been in the past few years it wouldn't take much either... my uncle owns a guns shop in the area and i've personally heard these guys talk about some land owner having a fire or some kind of accident if they post the property or forbidding dog hunting (which has since been outlawed in the area)... its friggin ridiculous, and there's not much you can do about it unless you can commit to being out and about on the property on a REGULAR basis all year long... our family has approximately 500ac, all of which is fantastic hunting property... the problems we've got is incosiderate PR!CKS that abuse any privileges that we've allowed to hunt... the land isn't leased to anyone, though admittedly, we (my uncles) have given permission to hunt it, which i don't have a problem with... what I do have a problem with is when my cousin and one of my younger uncles (about 10yrs older than me) get ran off and threatened on their own property... and I'm told by all my uncles that this is "just the way folks are around here" and its not worth the consequences of posting it and kicking people off the property... it sucks, cuz I wanna get down there during the winter and improve the land, do some trimming and clear some spots for food plots and etc... but i'm afraid to do it cuz I might end up dead...

edit - as an aside, relating to a previous thread about carrying a side arm with you out in the woods... well, i guess you know how I feel about it now...