ROAD HUNTERS!!!

[RoyBoy]

I could be wrong and please correct me if I am. I thought somehow that if the property is posted " no hunting" even the land owner by law could not hunt that land either... Some guy from the local NRA was talking to me about that... Just hear say, speculation... 

yeah that use to be the law atleast. i think it still is.

[lokidog]

It is well established that wildlife is owned by the people of the state.  If folks are driving down a public road looking at public wildlife that happens to be standing on private land....too bad for the sniveling landowner!  Those people driving on that county road...they pay taxes to build and maintain that road...if they want to drive up and down it that is their choice.

Now, if folks are poaching, hang em' high...but I will tell you that I often drive county roads and glass wildlife on private land.  I might even be wearing orange if I'm driving between hunting spots.  Bottom line, most hunters have a passion for wildlife and enjoy seeing game even if they know they can't shoot it.  Since the wildlife and the roads are owned and managed with public resources...I see no good reason for private landowners to complain about legal wildlife viewing.

  

If, indeed, it is a dead end road, and all properties are private along it, and this viewing bothered me, I'd get together with my neighbors and put up a big sign at the entrance to this road that there is no public access and all land is private.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Must be some bog bucks lurking in your area 

[deaner]

okay tman, say youre driving down a rural road to your hunting area, and out of the side of your eye you see a bunch of deer in somebodys field, youre telling me you wont slow down to look?  and if you do slow down to look and see antler, you wont stop and glass?   come on now.  looking and shooting are two completely different things.

[RoyBoy]

okay tman, say youre driving down a rural road to your hunting area, and out of the side of your eye you see a bunch of deer in somebodys field, youre telling me you wont slow down to look?  and if you do slow down to look and see antler, you wont stop and glass?   come on now.  looking and shooting are two completely different things.

 

[predatorpro]

i always stop and glass out across fields when i am driving, its perfectly legal and i enjoy looking at deer and other animals in peoples fields, how are you suppose to find good spots and go ask for permission? not every piece of private property is owned by someone who hates people looking at deer in their field and even allow people to hunt on it

[Deep Forks]

I wonder how some of these folks that see nothing wrong with it or better yet stop on the road when no traffic is around run over into the ditch and take a dump would like it if we came over thir neighborhoods and *censored* in their yards Yes it happens. Wish I had a way to get addresses for license plates because I would do just that and leave a message returned the favor

  If someone stopped on a road like you describe they need to be slapped, held until the LEO's arrive and committed to a moron halfway house.  I can't fathem this being done, but have seen proof of such ignorance.   So yes there are morons that do the unthinkable, but pulling over to glass or observe a critter isn't one of them.  

[elkhunter00]

I could be wrong and please correct me if I am. I thought somehow that if the property is posted " no hunting" even the land owner by law could not hunt that land either... Some guy from the local NRA was talking to me about that... Just hear say, speculation... 

yeah that use to be the law atleast. i think it still is.

It's not the law, if I put up a sign that said "no littering", could I then not have a garbage pile on my own land?

[arees]

I would certainly stop and glass animals on private property from a public road.  If there was a good looking animal I would be thinking:

1) Does this private property border some public land that the animal might also be using?
2) Is the animal good enough to make it worth finding the land owner out of season and asking for permission to hunt during a future year?
3) Does this area have good genetics that make it worth concentrating on the surrounding public land?
4) Am I blocking traffic?

There is a big gap between reality and everyone driving near your house is a g-d poacher.

[scout/sniper]

i always stop and glass out across fields when i am driving, its perfectly legal and i enjoy looking at deer and other animals in peoples fields, how are you suppose to find good spots and go ask for permission? not every piece of private property is owned by someone who hates people looking at deer in their field and even allow people to hunt on it

It's not the people who just want to observe that are the problem.
My friend up the road has property visible from the road that always has elk in it. Every year some jackhole parks in front of his house and walks up there with a rifle and has to be led out at gunpoint. This puts us on alert to anyone who stops and glasses property.
We don't call the sheriff up here!

[400out]

i always stop and glass out across fields when i am driving, its perfectly legal and i enjoy looking at deer and other animals in peoples fields, how are you suppose to find good spots and go ask for permission? not every piece of private property is owned by someone who hates people looking at deer in their field and even allow people to hunt on it

It's not the people who just want to observe that are the problem.
My friend up the road has property visible from the road that always has elk in it. Every year some jackhole parks in front of his house and walks up there with a rifle and has to be led out at gunpoint. This puts us on alert to anyone who stops and glasses property.
We don't call the sheriff up here!

Now that makes sense, trespassers! Not lookers, do I need to repost the OP  It clearly stated : stopped in the road anD glassed my field!

I feel your pain but it's part of where we live, I have a similar problem with the local cats cruising the fence and scoping out the herds of birds on my land!       I have put up signs and even ran them off! They know I don't like them! The other day the wife called me and said that a group had clossed my fence and  killed something! I raced home but the damage was done and they were gone    Now I just wait until I see one then I run outside like a drunken hillbilly yelling every name I can think of!
I hate them cats

[scout/sniper]

I hate them cats

How high are your signs?
I had this problem and found that the signs were too high. Try putting them about 3" above the ground where the cats can see them while stalking.
It helped me.

[netcoyote]

Maybe you should sell your land and move to the city. Sorry, but thats part of country and rural living. Gonna have to get used to it.

MountainWalk nailed it. I've got land in a suburb. Can't remember the last time a couple guys in a pickup, dressed in orange stopped in front of my house and glassed my front yard. I got other complaints that go along with suburban living. No place is perfect. You guys with large parcels should be thankful for what you have.

That said, I certainly am NOT condoning trespassing or shooting across someone's property. Anyone doing that should be punished to the fullest extent. But getting upset about someone looking at wild game in your field is a waste of energy. Get over it.

[predatorpro]

i always stop and glass out across fields when i am driving, its perfectly legal and i enjoy looking at deer and other animals in peoples fields, how are you suppose to find good spots and go ask for permission? not every piece of private property is owned by someone who hates people looking at deer in their field and even allow people to hunt on it

It's not the people who just want to observe that are the problem.
My friend up the road has property visible from the road that always has elk in it. Every year some jackhole parks in front of his house and walks up there with a rifle and has to be led out at gunpoint. This puts us on alert to anyone who stops and glasses property.
We don't call the sheriff up here!

why do you care if some one is looking at a frikkin animal? i understand the trespassing part thats obvious! but getting mad at someone looking is stupid, thats like the jerk that starts a fight with someone cuz they looked at them wrong...hope i never get ran down by you while im looking at a nice animal! god forbid us hunters like watching wildlife...

[Hunting7mm]

It's the same old story everywhere.  My buddy owns around 300 acres down a private road.  The elk are often in his field but they do not hunt in there field.  He hunts the timber above or around the property but not the fields do to there cows.  People often sneak on to his property after elk.  He has no tresspassing signs everywhere and he has a fence plus signs that say private property as you cross on to his private land down his private drive way.  He puts cones across the road and still people will move the cones and access his property.  Numerous times he has to confront people as they are parked on his land glassing his fields.  I think its time I help him put up a gate.