I am just amazed that in the middle of all these horror stories someone is ignorant enough to call this an "elitest" post! I guess atlasman thinks thistype of behavior is acceptable? I know he does not but I guess we aren't allowed to talk about it on the forum? Should we just keep quiet when we see idiot gun hunters performing these unthinkable acts?

We have the same types of issues in Ohio. I don't have any horror stories near as bad as some of those above but last year a guy from work shot a buck during gun season and saw it cross a farm field and fall 20 yards from a country road. As he was walking toward it a truck stopped alongside the road, 2 guys jumped out, threw the buck in the back of the truck, and proceeded to drive away! The guy who shot the deer ran toward them yelling and waving but of course they kept on going.

In my area of Ohio we have mostly small woodlots scattered throughout the vast farmland. Every year thelocal gun hunters go from woodlot to woodlot pushing deer and conducting drives whether they own the land or not! In the 4 years I have owned my property I have caught gun hunters trespassing every year. In the same time frame I have not seen one bowhunter trying to tresspass.

This year I was bowhuntingduring youth gun season whenI have a 2 1/2 year old 8 point buck pass my stand. His mouth was hanging open and he was panting like a dog. I let him pass and about 10 minutes later I see a couple trucks pull along side the woods. Sure enough a few minutes later I see orange coming my way and when the guy gets close to me I yell out and ask what he is doing. He says they "hit a buck" and are trying to find him. I told him to ask permission next time but I saw where the buck went and I would help them track him. He says "that's OK, they live next house up the road and they won't be back" and he keeps walking. I couldn't get down my tree very fast since I was in a climber so I watched them and they were walking about 100 yards apart and both walking very fast. It became obvious to me that they were not tracking a deer. I yelled out again and asked if he had a blood trail and he said "no, not anymore" as he kept trespassing across my land. The truck that dropped them off had driven around to the other side of the woods and it was obvious they saw the buck run into my woods and they were just trying to push him back out. They were not tracking a deer but I guess that was a pretty good lie, I imagine it was not the first time he had used it. And to make it worse this was youth season so these guys are making quite an impression on theteenagers hunting with them. This guy is the farmer that owns most of the farmland all around me including at least80 acres ofwoods. I still can't figure out why someone who owns hundreds of acres would feel it necessary to tresspass on my little 20 acre woodlot? I guess these guys see a buck (who was not even a mature deer) and they feel compelled to chase him wherever he goes without regard to anylaws orethics...