Confirmed: lost my hunting spot
10-15-2011, 01:36 PM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Wherever liberalism must be eradicated.
Posts: 2,734
pluckit, its the hunters RESPONSIBILITY to know who the land owner is and to then secure permission.
Without EXPRESS permission your trespassing, and thus ILLEGALLY hunting their land.
Without EXPRESS permission your trespassing, and thus ILLEGALLY hunting their land.
10-15-2011, 01:43 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,037
+1 I have to say I do not have much good to say about tresspassers. They are the reason a lot of landowners around here do not allow any hunting. I have had tresspassers on my place, and I don't take too kindly too it. My sister had people hunt in her windbreak within a couple hundred yards of her home because the lazy roadhunters saw a deer run in there when they were driving buy. I wish our state had bigger penalties for poaching on someones land.
10-15-2011, 02:57 PM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
Kinda odd this thread came up after finally meeting the guy that owns 40acres next to mine but across the main road. We NEVER set foot on his place and he lives in Maine but seldom visits his property in Mo. Never saw him at all in over 10 years but we knew it wasn't public land. He came walking up to say hi the last time i was down there, probably because he saw the new polebarn and the gate was open.
We told him how me and several adjoining land owners work it out and he joined in too. We don't just hunt our area, we manage it and keep the population levels healthy based on several factors and trail cam counts.
Now we have another 40 acres of mostly heavy woods to hunt and his relatives that live in town have prime river access to enjoy since all of his sits on a bluff with almost no private access. They don't hunt much but don't care if we do.
We told him how me and several adjoining land owners work it out and he joined in too. We don't just hunt our area, we manage it and keep the population levels healthy based on several factors and trail cam counts.
Now we have another 40 acres of mostly heavy woods to hunt and his relatives that live in town have prime river access to enjoy since all of his sits on a bluff with almost no private access. They don't hunt much but don't care if we do.
Last edited by Gm54-120; 10-15-2011 at 03:05 PM.
10-15-2011, 03:02 PM
#15
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Virginia
Posts: 14
10-15-2011, 03:34 PM
#17
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: MD/PA Line
Posts: 598
You must have written permission. Refer to page 18 of your guide.
http://www.eregulations.com/maryland/hunting/pageFlip/
http://www.eregulations.com/maryland/hunting/pageFlip/
10-15-2011, 04:12 PM
#18
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: MD/PA Line
Posts: 598
Then you will be prosecuted for hunting w/o written permission. Land owners need not post their land. That is why the law of written permission is in effect.
Furthermore if one does not have written permission then one would be trespassing.......
Furthermore if one does not have written permission then one would be trespassing.......
Last edited by Omega45; 10-15-2011 at 04:28 PM.
10-15-2011, 04:22 PM
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Moravia NY USA
Posts: 2,164
I can't fathom hunting a peice of land based on "hoping to get away with it" posted or not. That's the attitude responsible for so much posting these days. Hunters with the entitlement attiude who believe a landowner is greedy based on not wanting to allow anyone who wants to hunt their place to do so. I don't warn anymore, zero tolerance prosecution here.
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