Theories and opinions fly wild and easily from the keyboard. But real life execution is MUCH harder. I know from experience as my family has a 10k acre place in southern MO and a 2500 acre place in west TN. We've hired "patrols", have full time farm hands that are on the land daily and for over a decade we even had a full time game biologist that prosecuted anyone we could catch (even used a neighbors helicopter one opening day, that was interesting). But in the end, RED NECKS are going to trespass just because they feel that because there is a law against it, they MUST trespass and poach. THEY are the reasons people put up high fences as much to keep the trash out as the trophies in.

The typical, law-abiding neighbor/citizen is worth their weight in gold. They can read a NO TRESPASS sign and will heed its warning. For others they read it "NO TRESPASSING, WE DARE YA!" Sometimes its so maddening I wish it was like parts of Africa where poachers and trespassers can be SHOT ON SIGHT!

It gets absolutely maddening [:@] to have your hunts interrupted by TRASH who wander aimlessly around and want to abuse private property and leach off of others hard work and investments, only to have them tell you, "Well I got lost. Or I shot a deer on ol so and so's place and it ran over here". Some on here said, "Just patrol the land". Well are you going to give up your own opening weekend on stand just to keep rednecks off of your land? Do you want such misfits wandering around with guns in the same woodlot as your own family? Take pictures? COME ON give me a freakin break. Who is gonna take the time and expense of using those cameras? And do you for one instant think that a redneck outlaw is gonna stand there smile for the camera? He will either remove the camera or simply blow it off the tree! You cant hide a camera, the flash will give it away. Infra-red you say? Well again, who is gonna pay for it? Telling the landowner to foot the bill for all this security is unfair and not reasonable.

As for the "public game" theory, who pays to feed and provide a safe environment for those animals? It sure isnt the public. You sure arent paying for the damage to crops that the deer are wreaking havoc on. Many generations ago the deer might have belonged too the public when they were first re-introduced and stocked, but imho the deer belong solely too the person whose land they are on today. By manys opinions you cold argue that the fish in a landowners pond are likewise "publicly owned"?

You're gonna spend over $100 per acre to fence most land with a gameproof enclosure. Thats a SIZEABLE investment that any law abiding landowner should be able to make without worry about some trashneck ruining it.

Sometimes you just have to see through others eyes before you can accurately speak of their actions,
RA