ORIGINAL: dave37
Well i never thought i wouldneed toreach this conclusion (or have to for that matter) but after a week of collecting names etc. , im gettin ready tosome local guys NAILED !
I went out to one of my properties last saturday , being that it was our 2nd gun season to check out what local yocals thought they were gonna run aroundthe woods. I was suprised to see when i got there it was surrounded and they were pushing it. needless to say i was freaking raging. So after lots of screaming and threats the land owner finally rolled in, to clarify things. He had gave ONE guy permission to come out and test his luck with his son if he wished. there were 11 men, one boy, and one girl standing there !!!!!!!!!!!Every year on this particular piece of property its mine soley until gun season, with the understaning that i watch over it , fall dead trees , clean field edges to keep joe farmer happy and keep trespassers off. The two guys im speaking of in this post i have had plenty of run-ins with one resulting in fist-to-cuffs where he decided since he was caught he would try to fight. BAD IDEA for him -but thats another post.I found out that they had already shot a deer that day and it was untagged ! Now i was set over the top , so i called around found out his name and called my local wildlife officer ( i know him fairly well) left him a messagte to get back to me ASAP. today the land owner called me to tell me they were shooting deer with a 22 last night a block away and had offered him a deer for the trouble last week !!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS. So intern he called me told me about ( he told me he wants nothing to do with it ) which i guess he figures hes still gotta live by them ?
I think at this point if i dont hear back tommorow im gonna call the sheriffs dpt. and get somethin rollin
Ever had somehtin like this happen to you , how'd you handle it?
What more about gun season in Ohio, N.W. Ohio don't you umderstand?
How do I handle it? Out hunt them. You don't own the land and are just a guest. Out hunt them or move on. It is what I do and have done. Just put over 500 miles on my truck to never put a foot on the ground. Probably saved myself from getting shot. Life in Ohio during gun season. Did it during the first week of gun season too. Took a nice deer some where else.
Being a guest is still better than being the land owner and having to deal with this stuff. Those guys aren't hunting and will do little harm. Get your bow ready! Watch them here at home do the same every year and they've not taken one yet. They didn't show this year as far as I know. Bumpkins inslaved in the orange army.
Out hunt them or buy your owm land and squat on it.
I can't really blame them too much. We just don't have the kind of deer density we should have and aren't likely too either. They think N.W. ohio is just fine and the south has too many. I think that's a bunch of politics (feel free to substitute any sewage word for politics).