Poachers.....
 

One of the propertys we hunt has a TON of turkeys that are a nuisance to the owners. So he allows anyone who asks to hunt his property. So last weekend(the week before opener) two of the locals went to him and asked permission to hunt his property, saying that season there opened a week early. They went out and shot 5 birds, including a hen. This pisses me off soooooo much, it ruins our hunting, the birds, and peoples respect for hunters...>.<

I have no respect for poachers and they need to be reported to your local Conservation Officer. They ruin hunting for everyone. I hope they get arrested and have the book thrown at them...

Have you considered going to the owner, and informing him of these poachers actions. If he condones it, he could be in trouble himself!!

Ditto to what Buck wrote - they stole from all ehtical hunters out there!

I'd turn them all in and pronto!

JW

is it unlawful to kill so many, or did they lie to him in saying season opened a week early.are yall not allowed to shoot hens?

if they are nuisance, then i wouldnt go sayin anything to the land owner that lets yall hunt there for free. he wants em dead, and at the 1st sign of trouble from you ....you will be history...so maybe inform your dnr that this is happenin if ya care so much.

they started allowing for xbows durin archery here, but the book said only if your disabled. but the updated website said something different. did ya check you states web site to see if it didnt start early. and if ya asked an officer, lol, they dont always know either.

sometimes just tellin those guys it was wrong is a good thing ta do. maybe they dont know. i have been guilty, you can ask around here.

[QUOTE=halfbakedi420;3603152]is it unlawful to kill so many, or did they lie to him in saying season opened a week early.are yall not allowed to shoot hens?

I don't think you're able to shoot hens in Spring turkey hunting. Not sure about autumn though.

That's terrible! I agree with the guys here - they need to be turned in and apprehended. It's people (POACHERS) like this who ruin it for everyone!!! Landowners who are nice enough to allow their property to be hunted, take the risk of having to deal with these idiots. Besides potentially ruining your turkey season, they limit the amount of huntable land for all of us!!! I hope they get caught and severely punished... I have no sympathy or leniency for unethical "hunters".

I hope they didn't ruin your opener bud - good luck.

Kim

We werent going there for the opener anyways, there are a couple people who bow hunt it who we give first crack at it. I checked the website to reconfirm the dates, i was correct, they were a week early, and it is illegal to shoot any non-bearded turkey in spring.

If they come back i will be sure to report, as is, i hope it was just a one time thing, and that they didnt kill the triple bearded monster, or the bearded hen

Turning in poachers is simply the right thing to do for the image of the hunting community, for the future of the species, and ethically. But did you know you could be rewarded up to $500 by the National Wild Turkey Federation for information leading to the arrest of a poacher. Contact the NWTF for more information.

Hunters don't poach. Poachers poach. Make sure to inform non-hunters who tell you a story that begins" I heard a hunter...". Also, hunters don't vandize property, vandals vandalize.

Huntnteen, I most def. wouldn't wait to see if they come back. Chnaces are if they feel can get away with it there, they will be back at some point. maybe not this yr, but how about next yr.! I would def. talk to the landowner, and inform him of the problem.
I once had landowner permission to turkey & deer hunt. 1 turkey season I ran into a new hunter that told me he had permission from owner. Next day he had a guy with him, following day he had a different guy with him. I learned he was guiding hunters on that land. I spoke to the owner, and asked him if he was aware of this. He said no, and was very upset this guy was making $ off his land. The owner stopped the guy, and he wasn't allowed back.
Think of it this way, if it was your land wouldn't you want to know what was going on??

I don't know where this thread is going but if Huntnteen is from Windsor,Ontario Canada, the hunting season for Wild Turkeys doesn't even start here until the 27th of April,2010.
If he was hunting at time of posting, then he is hunting out of season.
Just can't get too excited on posts like this one.
If you see or witness poaching it is your duty to inform the CO's. I have my cell phone on quick dial for this purpose.

The problem seems to be that the farmer has nuisance birds and doesn't care who shoots how many or when. That problem exists everywhere. Farmers around here may kill all the nuisance animals they want, as long as they leave them lay where they fall. But they don't have the time or care to do it, so they lease to hunters, hoping they'll wipe out all the animals that they are tired of feeding. Problem is the lease holders want more animals not less. I've nearly lost a lease once because the farmer expected more deer and turkeys killed than were being killed. When I told him the hunters had taken all the legal animals they could, he told me "I need poachers then". The only thing I could do to keep the land was to overrun it with hunters which of coarse would ruin the hunting as well, so I just simply started lying to the guy and telling him we were killing more animals than we really were, and he was happy. If it were truely a nuisance animal problem, the game warden here would just tell the farmer to kill all he wants to and leave them for the buzzards, and as long as people do that, it's ok. Some farmers even pay a bounty I hear.

The reason i cant report it is because i dont know they guys' names. My dad is going to tell the landowner Friday when he sees them.

And I'm in windsor California, season opened last saturday