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Old 01-26-2005, 09:38 AM
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adams
 
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Default RE: Unneccessary law or a good idea?

In some states it's not illegal to hunt private property without permission. In New Hampshire for instance it is perfectly legal to hunt on private property of another person without permission as long as the land isn't posted and you haven't been asked to leave. In Maine the majority of the northern part of the state is owned by paper companies. The land is multiuse so in a sense it's like public land, no permission written or verbal is required to hunt it.

I agree it's a slippery slope and I was struck when I read the law as it was legislating etiquette and common decency. IMO it won't matter at all to those who hunt from stands that don't belong to them. It would just up the ante if they were to get caught.
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