"A haven of illegal hunting with the attitude of "my Daddy and Granddaddy hunted that place for years before you bought it and I will continueto do so. Season limits and legal methods of take seem to mean nothing. Private property and no-trespassing signs are not respected and often shot to pieces"
I live "there".
The poachers that live behind me (1/2 mi.) .....their families used to own ALL the land in this area. They now own ONE ACRE. Whomever felt sorry for them, somewhere back in time, and allowed them to keep that house and acre.......
......God I wish he'd just given them fair market value for it and kicked their asses to the curb. They use that 1 acre as a launching pad to hunt ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE they please. They have MULTIPLE guests to help them hunt their ....."acre"?????
It's sickening.
I'm not sure I'd buy any acreage around here......UNLESS I could buy their acre, too. Without that place to stage from......they could be managed. As it stands, now.....they're hard to catch.....UNLESS they're taking a dump .....after having trespassed across three properties to get there. (and yes....he was reported and nothing happened)
So yeah.....I'd say it would make sense to ask the surrounding landowners before purchasing land. You might discover you have a mad dumper in your midst.....and some inbred, toothless, useless poaching sons ofbitches to deal with.