Pro tip for shed hunting

[Rainier10]

Here is a pro tip for shed hunters, wait until the elk actually drop a their antlers. If you go out now you are just going to get a bunch of old chalky white antlers and push a bunch of elk around. And if you are going to go out this early stay off private property. At least this guy is on foot the guy last week was on a 50cc mini dirt bike smack dab in the middle of my property behind a gate. So frustrating.

[Rainier10]

Mini bike also on private property and behind a gate.

[Mtnwalker]

That is infuriating, what a bummer that you have to deal with that so regularly. If I was you I would consider a few bait sheds near the roads with a better camera setup?

[MeepDog]

The fish cops should use bait sheds with little gps transmitters inside. Might want to contact law enforcement again and see if they'll try and set something up. If they can hide an air tag they can hide anything.

[Rainier10]

Those are both cell cameras so I get real time photos. I used to have regular cameras but authorities said they needed to catch them in the act so I got cell cameras. I report the trespassing when they go in first thing in the morning knowing they will be coming out at dark. Nobody comes to investigate until the next day when the trespassers are gone.

These are cameras that have been shot, smashed, dumped in water holes or just flat out stolen. Owning your own slice of heaven can be a nightmare at times.

[MeepDog]

If the area is heavily posted with signage you could probably get them for criminal trespass. I would think cops would be interested in that but maybe theyre too focused on speeding tickets and parking violations.

[Rainier10]

There is a sign every 100 yards in most places and every 25 yards in others. Most every guest that I have had up to my place has asked what my sign budget is because it is so heavily posted. From the spot the guy with the sheds is standing you can see 9 signs that say access by written permission only which we grant to a lot of people.  That is another that people have mentioned, “why are there so many signs right here?” Because this is one of the highest trespassed areas.

[pd]

Owning your own slice of heaven can be a nightmare at times.

Pro tip for those who dream of buying hunting property.

[Rainier10]

Just to the north of me is DNR, everyone’s dream own a piece of land that backs up to DNR or national forest. Careful what you wish for.

If people just walked through it would be one thing but they park vehicles off road, leave trash, make fire pits, leave gates open, trash my cameras, ride mini bikes, full sized motorcycles, side by sides and full sized vehicles on a private road that is closed to motorized vehicles.

I caught one guy on a Honda 90. “There weren’t even any sheds back here some jerk came in here on a tracked side by side and got them before we could get in here, someone should write that guy a ticket.”  Really?! Because they trespassed before you did?!

they shoot deer or elk on my place because “it’s really close to DNR” or they were “on DNR when they shot the deer that was on private”.

I don’t know that those sheds came from my place but also don’t know that they didn’t come from my place.

I could go in two or three guided hunts a year with the money I pay each year in property taxes and instead I deal with jack wagons trespassing.

[Feathernfurr]

Can you gate the road?

[Rainier10]

Can you gate the road?

It is gated, one end is locked the other is not.

[Feathernfurr]

Gotcha, it’s a bummer that you’ve got such a chronic issue. Not sure what the answer is and won’t speculate what a solution may look like. I picture a world where you follow these fellas up into the mountains and disable their vehicles but two wrongs doesn’t make a right.

[pd]

I could go in two or three guided hunts a year with the money I pay each year in property taxes and instead I deal with jack wagons trespassing.

I can feel your pain, Sir.  As Feathernfurr said, I am not sure what the solution (if any) is.

[Rainier10]

It’s really just about education. It has gotten better but there are always new people that need to be educated.

It’s just frustrating to see guys in there pushing animals before the antlers drop and before snow melts and new green forage comes up.

[LDennis24]

The reality of public land people. "I have a right to get to the public land behind you!" Woooooooo! Unlawful Inclosures Act!

The reality is that its abused constantly because LEO simply can't handle it properly. Calling them does nothing anymore because they have to choose between your property rights or going to the domestic violence episode over who took the last hit of fentanyl and obviously they are not coming to your place.  But the corner crossing ruling will surely solve all of this kind of stuff. They will start going to those places now and stop trespassing for a short cut to the public land. I have faith.