I don't know if this has been posted yet, sorry if it has:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050602/...NlYwNzc3JlbA--

Moral of the story...

Get the landowner's WRITTEN permission to hunt his land.

SA

i can speak for myself, and honestly say i have never had written permission to hunt anything here, just verbal.
i can see where that may not be such a good idea anymore. hunting is becoming too big of business. spooky to think you could get taken to the cleaners over a deer.

ill probably never kill anything big enough to have to worry about it though.

That and we hunt in Wyo. One of the few states that we generally don't worry about this crap and if we do it's for Antelope!

Good point, and to tell you the truth, it is the only kind that I allow on my property. Anyone trespassing without it is asked to leave even if I am not there.

The really sad part of the story is that antlers are worth $30,000.

My take on the story is he should have ask before he went. I've run into this on my land. someone asks once to hunt then they think they have a life long free pass. I ask every time before I go on someone elses land. It doesn't matter how many times I've been told that its ok.

I hunt on two ranches close to home for whitetail & mule deer. Both ranchers have given me verbal permission to hunt there land anytime. Last year before season started, I again confirmed permission with both ranchers. I gave both rancher a 4"x6"-card.
The card had all of my personal information on it. License plate number, truck color, hunting license number, home telephone number, physical address & mailing address. I could be wrong but I think they both like having this information? They both know they can reach me if there is a problem.

Wolf,

Yea think that they both like it? I guarantee you they both love it!

It is funny because I saw a post, in another thread, by a Moderator from Bakersfield, about how tough it is to find a place to hunt around here. It got a little chuckle out of me because I have permission to hunt about 5 ranches within 90 minutes of Bakersfield and just over a dozen total ranches along the central coast. The most that any of these ranches costs me to hunt is about 20lbs of bulk breakfast sausage every year or a lunch in Paso Robles.

I believe that one of the keys to me getting permission to hunt of these ranches is a simple hunting permission agreement (a lawyer buddy drew it up) that protects me and, moreso, protects the landowner with a waiver of rights.

The agreement cleary states the following:

1) My Name

2) My Address

3) My Home and Cell Phone

4) My Vehicle Make, Model & License

5) My Hunting License #

6) Landowner's Name

7) Landowner's Address

8) Landowner's Home and Cell Phone

9) Ranch Name

10) Ranch Location

11) The Dates for which the Permission is valid

12) The Species for which the Permission is valid

I was pretty amazed at how quickly I got permission to hunt on some really good ranches.

Anyway,

SA

Here is the form that I use when giving permission to my land:

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/d...ortsed/ask.pdf