"I don't know how the laws are in all states, but in IL you can't use lethal force to protect property."

This is not the case in OK.

"Look at it this way, say somehow you ended up on someone elses property as a simple mistake while doing a drive on new property you are hunting with a friend."

All of our places are fully fenced and posted. The vast majority of trespass cases are deliberate and premeditated.

ihave run a few dozen trespassers off our properties over the past ten years.It is best to just walk up to the trespasser and calmly inform him that he is trespassing on your place and ask him to leave. Most of themhave leftwithoutany trouble.

Threetrespassers gave metrouble. One was a chronic trespasser who cut our fence several times until i caught him on the place with his 4 wheeler.Held him at gun point for the sheriff. He had felony wants in TX and he went bye-bye. One OK City lawyer gave me some crap until i told him that he was setting a very fine example for his 14 year old son who was trespassing with him. He was part of a gaggle of guys who leased the hunting rights on a section across the road from us. There were no quail on the place because itis grazed to death. He saw quail on our place and decided to hunt there despite the no trespass signs.

The trespass problems on that place havegone away since i invitedadeputy to hunt there. Nothing like asheriff's truckparked on your place to deter trespassers.