RE: If you found a stand on your own land?
 

Take the stand down! Don't destroy it. Period. Talk to the person even if they get upset you remain calm. (easier said then done)If your land is abundant enough that it wouldn't be a problem for them to hunt it then find a common ground that you can agree upon.

Explain that you own the land and explain where you are coming from liabilty, game pressure, just knowing who is on your property and what they are hunting might suffice.

If you are open to letting them use the land then maybe you need to ask the hunter to help you take down some trees or split some wood, work on the land, etc. Maybe you work out a deal where they lease a section of it for hunting season. It is your land, your rules. That should suffice of the tresspasser doesn't like it they have no choice but to go elsewhere. Maybe you get some of the meat from the kill.

Have we as hunters regressed to the point of tresspassing, bad shots, lazy tracking, and general disregards for safety and one another? I hope not; but those few bad apples will spoil it for the whole bunch.

RE: If you found a stand on your own land?
 

To me there are few things as fundamental or basic as the rights of the private property owner. We have taken great lengths as a country to protect those rights and protect the private property. BTW, that is - we protect the private property owner from other citizens as well as from the government!
In our state, a hunter must have written permission to hunt private land - posted or not. And, it is the responsibility of the Hunter to know the status of the land he/she is hunting on!

If it were me, I would take down the stand, give it to Law Enforcment, Fish and Game, whoever. Then, leave a note at the stand location informing the owner/trespasser how he can contact the appropriate agency and collect his stand. If the person is going to be hot or have an atitude, let him do that with the LE people!!



"Vegetarian" - also translated as "Bad Hunter"!!

RE: If you found a stand on your own land?
 

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RE: If you found a stand on your own land?
 

I have no patience for tresspassers. After dealing with them for years I now take and keep any stands found on my well posted property and when catching someone in the act like I did last year,I take their equipment(bow,gun whatever) and keep it too. They have the option of calling the Warden if they want, he confiscates too and gives them a ticket for trespass

If I ain't huntin',I'm trappin',If I ain't trappin',I'm fishin'
If I ain't fishin',I'm wishin'!

RE: If you found a stand on your own land?
 

Here in Minnysota it is illegal to tresspas, my signs say it all,ABSOLUTLY NO TRESSPASSING!!! SURVIVORS WILL BE PROSECUTED.I would sabbotage the stand, put sharpened pungy sticks at the bottomn of it. go back a year later and get stand.