Wow!! Just got back from being gone a few days to check this thread my lord what a stir it has caused.
We own land and have no problem with people looking for a wounded animal as long as they take the time to ask and no weapons and so forth. Yes I have been tresspassed on, stuff happens but does that mean every hunter is like the person that tresspassed on me??? NO!!! If i where a cop this would be like racial profiling, wouldn't it?????? You are basicly discriminating agains that hunter because another hunter pissed you off and lumping every hunter together which is not how this needs to handled.
I don't know which side is worse in this tread you got hunters hunting on public ground who either don't have access to private ground or what ever and they want to go in at night to retrieve the downed animal with out asking, BIG NO NO!!!!!
Then you got all the hard ass land owners that are wrong in saying you shouldn't hunt close to the boarders of public ground or even private that boarders them. because you a cutting there deer off, well tough @#$#!!!!! Well I am sorry but a deer that is not hit well for whatever reason can travel alot futher than a couple hundred yards!!! You know this just like everyone else who has hunted for any period of time. So really your agruement is a mute point on hunting no closer that "X" amount of yrds off the property line. In a perfect world we would all be master hunters like some claim they are and all of the deer shot would just fall over dead in there tracks!!!
Like I said I own some land and if anyone comes to my house asks permission to track an animal to me that says alot about the type of hunter he or she is and what it says most is that they are respectfull of the landowner, because alot of people would NOT ask they would just go do it.
People on both sides of need to get over themselves and look at the bigger picture here!!!!!! Help thy neighbor, does that ring a bell to anyone????
Last edited by steve25; 11-25-2010 at 08:16 PM.