For you Country Folk to answer about your property / acreage.?

Question

Do any of you who live on farms or in rural areas have any trouble with dipshits driving right up into your property and hunting ?

Also snowmobilers and 4-wheelers running through your property not caring what they damage or kill ?

Good grief, these idiots don't ask permission and then have the balls to give me a dirty look when I tell them to take hike, as if they own the land and I don't. Its crazy... I was raised to NEVER trespass or damage anyone's property. Being law abidding was pounded into our heads and life is good because of it but there are still those out there who have no clue what "respect" means. Just wondering if anyone else has to deal with these disrespectful a$$es ??

Thanks

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I need to add that we do have "No Hunting" signs up and "No trespassing"... These idiots obviously can't read and what is scary is that they are hunting with guns and riding fast toys. *shiver*

Answer 1

We've had a couple of people try to pull something like that.. but we live in texas, so we can shoot them.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

As I grew up I learned to ask hunters to leave our property. I don't know what makes people think they can discharge firearms near other people's homes where they have children, pets and property. In my opinion, there are two kinds of hunters:

1. the ones who go to where there is good game, don't hunt over the limit, and eat what they kill.
2. The ones who hunt in back woods lots while drunk on schlitz and are more worried about getting an 8-pointer than about enjoying organic free range meat. Put up some No Hunting signs, and let the Sherrif know you've been having tresspassers. He may send somebody around on Saturdays to see if any crappy pickup trucks with gun racks and Confederate decals is parked at the edge of your land.

Answer 4

Yes, I have had the same trouble.
I used to have a 10-acre ranch in the canyon country north of Los Angeles. You remember the STAR TREK episode where Kirk fought the big Gorn, a T-Rex-looking alien? Those big, tilted rocks were in the same area as my ranch. Even though I put up "No Trespassing" signs, and fences, jerks from down in L.A. (either white kids on dirtbikes or Latins on the weekends) would come up to my place on motorcycles at 50 MPH (and I lived on a dirt fire road) and try to use my land to ride, or the Latins would come up and try to shoot guns, and they'd always try to dump trash. And the Latins were almost always gang mambers, usually the Avenues Gang. I had to chase quite a few unwelcome visitors out, both with my car and (on two occasions), at the point of my gun.
Some of them even went so far as to cut my fence so they could ride through my land.
Some of them had the balls to try to tell me that the fire road and the surrounding acreage was public property (it was not) and they could go anywhere they pleased.
That's one reason I think guns are a good thing to keep.

Answer 5

Oh yes! First make sure your sign is properly posted and that your posted signs are replaced every time the dang fools tear them down. I got tired of arguing each time it happens. I got a lovely 9mm from my husband...and you know if you target shoot on your own property at just the right time it:

1) Ruins hunting
2) Scares the crap out of Trespassers
3) Lets them know you target shoot a lot and must be really good.

Of course I NEVER point a gun at ANYONE. I have a separate area that is on my own property, is backed by a wall bank, and is legal to shoot on because of distance from other properties and I own the land. I have found this very effective and have had less and less problems.

Answer 6

Hop in your truck and drive down to the Co. Sheriff dept., sit down and get the details on your rights and the a$$holes rights. Display No Trespassing signs every 100' at your property line. When they show up, put them on notice ( " Read the signs A$$HOLE!!" ) call the Sheriff and tell them you have thrown them off your property, when they return just knock em off their 4 wheelers with a 12 Gage packed with rock salt. When they come after you... take them out with YOUR favorite Deer Rifle. You can't booby trap these guy's but you can defend your property, livestock, and loved ones!!!
Put out signs, make the call, then deal with them in the manner you are most comfortable with the possible repercussions, if any. Where I live, I have taken the proper steps, to insure that I am within my rights before I drop some misguided moron, and it's legal here to protect your livelihood with deadly force.

Answer 7

I don't live in a rural area but we have lake frontage. When the ice is good (which it is not this year, tg), snow mobilers think it is okay to go zooming across the lake hooping and hollering at all hours of the night then coming up onto other people's property to do donuts in the yard. You can't get to the road from our yard in a snow mobile so they have to go down the sea wall, back onto the lake which is also noisy (and I would not think good for a machine like that). GAWD, I hate it! disrespect is a mild way of putting it!

Answer 8

I have signs posted all around the area that simply say:
TRESPASSERS WILL HEAR ONLY ONE WARNING SHOT. Since I put that up 2 years ago, I have had no problems. I live on property that has rolling hills and trails and used to get dirt bikers all the time and got tired of always calling the sheriff.

Answer 9

One in every crowd! Just put up some Posted signs. Make sure your fencing is intact. I had the same problem and the kids were just using the fields to cut across to get to another place. I told them just to keep to the outside edges. A good compromise. They get their way and I get mine. No more problems. If after several tries you get no decent response thentell the authorities. I'm sure after a few times being stopped by the cops, they'll find a new route.

Answer 10

We have been very lucky. We have a large pond on our property and people actually come to the door and ask if they can fish. I can only think of one time in years that someone fished without asking and the hubby went and told them they needed to leave and they did, without being rude or anything.