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And you wounder why farmers and ranchers dont like these things? Getting irrigation pipe ran over, wells shot for the fun of it, unauthorized dogs. Things sure must be different in your part of the country. Here you come onto someones property without permission, trespass, with a gun your poaching, looking in my barns, your stealing and I have every right to draw down on you and hold you till the sheriff or game warden gets there. Killing your dog that you are responcible for, well just a kindness as have you ever seen what the yotes do to them?
If you as a hunter were to contact me asap for my permission to come on my place I might even help look but just to do it or I see some dog just running on the place..... just another stray.
Getting irrigation pipe ran over? Who said anything about that? When going on the others land you are supposed to take your gun or truck. It's you walking across the land. I'm not seeing the problem. Who shot someones well? That just sounds more like some kids causing trouble than people hunting with dogs. I have never seen this kind of stuff go on.
As for the dogs they can't read posted signs so if you can't catch them all before they get to your property there is really nothing you can do. In fact if you are going by the laws it says you don't even have to try to stop them. Although most of the time we do unless it's a situation where someone owns a tiny place and we have on both sides and it just quickly runs through there. If they only own 2 acres in the middle of 100 acres on each side that we own it doesn't make sense to try to catch them. Although we might even then sometimes.
You can't take your gun on the property when going after dogs. So your not poaching. Who said anything about looking in barns? I've never known anyone to go look in someones barn for a dog. How would the dogs even get in the barn? I'm thinking maybe someone else complained about and I either missed or don't remember the post I'm not sure because I never said anything about looking in peoples barns and I agree you don't do that.
98% of the time if we go on someones land after a dog we usually do ask them. In most cases most of them are fine with it. However, we don't really need their permission to go. Some want to be *******s and try to tell you that you can't if you ask but for the most part most people are understanding and let you go get them. The other 2% it's either that we can't find someone or we know who owns the land. Actually being that we know who owns the land is almost what it always is but when we don't I'd say it's 98% of the time they go ask.
According to what others have told me and they are ones who usually know what they are talking about it's now a felony here if you shoot someones hunting dog. We have had people threaten to shoot them and that always gets pointed out. I've never verified this myself but according to all of them it's a felony here now if you shoot one. That's not something to take lightly. If you shoot someones dog coming through that would basically stop your hunting with firearms as you can't own guns if you are a felon.
I'm just not seeing all these problems you guys are making it out to be. You don't go on someones land climbing in their barn playing on their tractor like you all make it sound. It's usually walking though a field or into the woods calling for the dog and getting it to stop or come to you. Hook your leash to it and walk back out. It's usually not more than 5-10 minute process if that. It's not like we go snooping around for 2 hours. If we ever are on someones property looking for dogs for 2 hours I'd be shocked as I don't know I can remember it ever taking that long to catch a dog that stayed on one persons property the whole time but it may have as they sometimes catch the dogs after I have to leave.