Shed hunting trespassers and rule breakers

[bearhunter99]

The problem is enforcement officers and the lack of them.

The cameras give me a great timeline and trespassers are on a decent schedule. Pictures didn’t work. They needed real time photos to catch them in the act.

Okay, cell cam goes up.

Hey I have a guy parked along road hiking in right now. Should be coming back out at 7:30pm.  10am next day enforcement shows up. Couldn’t get there the day before and of course 30 hours later the trespassers were long gone.

That sucks.  These people are scum of the earth in my opinion.  I put up rope gates with ribbons on them every foot and three no trespassing signs on them.  The rope had a simple latch on it so I can open it....  They cut the rope, tear the posts out of the ground, rip the signs up and leave them on the road, just trash.  You can't do anything to them because then you are the bad guy even if they are breaking the law...

I have had a little success putting up dead cell cameras around the gate and then hiding some cell cameras back down the road to take long videos.  I hide them as best I can with brush but so that they still work.  Have caught a few destroying my property - but getting LEO to do anything about it is tough.

It is the same thing whether talking about shed hunting or anything else like gun laws.  If they actually enforced the laws that are in place much of the problem would go away but they are too busy spending money on reintroducing wolves or grizzlies or some other lame brained idea than staffing areas appropriately.  The game wardens are spread pretty thin with the areas they have to cover.

[String Bender]

Trespassing in itself is bad enough but the destruction of your property by offroading ,destroying your cameras and shooting up your signs is on a different level. And the fact that no one has probably been cited for it is very troubling . The whole thing is terrible and I wish you luck in finding a resolution.

[Rainier10]

Oh I have tried lots of stuff. I have cameras pointed at cameras. It’s fun to watch people putting brushy limbs over the camera they see while the camera they don’t see is taking photos.

I had a neighbors guest shoot a deer on my place and swear that he didn’t. I said I had pics of it and he assured me I didn’t. Then I showed him the pictures of him opening the camera he saw and deleting the sd card not realizing there were two cameras.

Last year a guy shot a deer on my place. Swore it was on the road, I own both sides of the private road but that doesn’t matter, his girlfriend dropped her dab pen on my property not the road and the blood trail started 60 yards on my property and went a 1/4 mile through my property before he drug it off my property to the road.

I have fences gates signs cameras and it doesn’t matter it only keeps the honest people honest.

[2MANY]

I could tell some stories but it only makes me feel bad for picking on interbred retard locals.

[Feathernfurr]

I’ve known a few people from childhood that frequently got caught trespassing to shoot turkeys. It was almost like they loved the rush of trespassing. They were incapable of respecting property lines, no matter the risk.

[zwickeyman]

Its not just WA either. My son and I have property in Mississippi and he gets pics of hunters all season on our property. Down there they feel if they have hunted a piece some where back in the day they have the right no matter who owns it. We are ramping some stuff up to nip it without hurting the jackwagons

[NOCK NOCK]

Oh cmon Rainier10, I was blasted on the corner crossing thread for saying this kind of thing happens constantly. It rarely ever happens. Like almost never... They aren't trespassing, hunters don't act like that. We are a team and we need full unfettered access to all public lands at all times for any and all reasons. We are America!

You know where I'm going with this... I'm sorry that you once again have to deal with trespassers who accidentally ignored your no trespassing signs and were just exercising their right to enter public lands. How many times a year would you guess hunters trespass on your property?

Rainier, sorry this is happening to you, people suck for sure. Unfortunately these kind of things ALWAYS come along with owning land.......anywhere.

Dennis, FWIW, there is a HUGE difference(most would say) between folks wanting to hop a corner, compared to the happenings at Rainiers place.

[2MANY]

The only time their not trespassing is when they're at a family reunion picking up chicks.

[Rainier10]

Owning land can certainly be frustrating. Like I say the good ones are those that trespass through on foot. The problem is once you cross that line it starts to get blurry. Oh heck I can through here quicker if I just take my ebike, Honda 90, dirt bike, quad, side by side, truck.  Dragging my deer to that gate is too much work I’ll just cut this rusty barbed wire fence that is keeping this guys cows on that he grazes in the spring, I’m sure he will ride the fence line and repair it before next grazing season. Oh look there is a nice shed antler, I bet he has plenty and won’t miss just this one. I’m almost to DNR but look at that nice buck, it’s really close to DNR, I’ll just shoot it and if I get caught I’ll say it was on DNR and then ran onto private.

There are private roads going through my property, it was a timber company lot and they had a road system. There is an easement for DNR to use the road for logging operations but the easement specifically says not for public use. The DNR map shows the road as a non green dot road. They just don’t have the officers to monitor and enforce it. When the timber company owned it it was feel free to hunt. Now I own it and it by written permission only which we grant to a lot of people, mostly seniors and youth hunters.

[hunter399]

This is a question on trespass in Idaho.
A buddy told me that your allowed to retrieve wounded or downed game from private property.
If you shoot it on public and blood trail leads to private your allowed to retrieve it.

Is this true?
I've never hunted Idaho ,so don't throw the book at me.
Just a question.

Here in Washington
I've seen a property owner deny permission to retrieve game,then hang there tag on someones deer.


A many year ago.....
I shot a buck, blood trailed to private property line.
Buck went right down the line for awhile,then off into private.
Which at that point ,I stopped.
Tried to get permission,no one home,ect.

Yes I did the right thing,but it does tear me up.( Not knowing if I would of trespassed,could I recovered the buck)
With so many that trespass and get away with it.
Yes I know I should take better shots.
Stuff happens,deer turn at the shot,or wind or other factors you didn't account for.

I guess all I'm saying is, sometimes it's very hard to do the right thing. Very easy to do the wrong thing.
Some people just don't have it in them to do the right thing.

[Rainier10]

I have a long border with DNR, barbed wire fence and tons of signage. Guy was on DNR last year and took a really long shot at a deer. Problem was the deer was 150 yards or more onto my place. At the distance he was shooting he never saw the fence, focused on the deer looking for a third point. Once he got to the fence he called around and got my number.  I could see the deer bed down on my place but it didn’t look wounded. I let him come on my place to “finish the deer off”.

He got close deer stood up and started walking away 150-200 yards. No limp, no blood. He shoots, drills it in the hind quarters, knocks it down. It gets back up, he shoots twice more and misses. He takes off after it and never finds it.  I find it a couple months later in a wet creek bottom not far from where I saw him hit it.

[GWP]

This guy set up a paint bomb trap. If I remember it correctly he had warned the guy to stay out before this and had signs up.

[Rainier10]

That is awesome.

[Buckjunkie]

That is awesome.

100%

[bobcat]

This guy set up a paint bomb trap. If I remember it correctly he had warned the guy to stay out before this and had signs up.