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Alarm is sounding, but do we hear it?
Mosin:
A shooting range like GI has would help. Most of the city people I talk too would say. I don't have a place to practice. They don't have a clue whats out there. :-\ I need to say I mean no offense to any large city hunters first. I grow up on a farm in Fillmore County. On opening morning of the birds seasons we would show up at our property to hunt. We would find Omaha or Lincoln pickups in the driveways. >:( We would ask them if they had permission? They always said, yes from the farmer down the road. I would say oh, you mean Ed over there. They would say yes! I would say, thats funny Ed does not live there. This is our land and you don't have permission please leave. >:( Some farmers are not so nice. ;D They find it hard to resist a quarter section with a spring running threw it and has been in a grass land for more than 10 years. So farmers get fed up and post all their property. Part of the problem? I can under stand their frustration on not owning land but they got to under stand the farmers and locals frustrations. I have quit hunting and fishing too because of not living back home. Where you grow up you can hunt and fish all the land around you.
FarmerRick:
We've had that same problem for years. I had some A-holes chasing a fox through my field in broad daylight last winter in their pickup. I called the sheriff's dept. and someone showed up about 2 hours later to take a report. Of course, nothing ever came of it. Back when the cops used to get here in a few minutes(years ago), we caught a couple and my parents had the trespassers prosecuted.
Please get permission before going onto someone's land!!
Back on topic...
Some reasons that I see for the decline in hunting/fishing:
Permit fees keep going up.
Less places to hunt/fish without paying.
Busy lives.
Expensive equipment/ammo.
Laziness/dis-interest of kids(many would rather text on the cellphone that they don't really need).
rugermanx:
We have had the same problem with trespassers for years. We own a couple of really good fields that seem to attract out of staters and a local group of people that don't think they need permission. So that is why we are completely posted. That doesn't mean if you come and ask we will tell you no. It means come and ask and most likely if there's no one out there or no one has been there that day you can most likely walk thru.
Best story ever was one day when we came out of the creek to find a truck in the field (less than 100 yds from my stand) and when we asked them who they had gotten permission from, they said my dad's name, (since its the name that was on the plat map. I looked at dad and just asked him if he had given anyone permission. They left quickly.
Anyway, yes I know in my family alone there is only a 1 in 3 chance that you will stick with hunting once you go to college. For me I love it and go out as often as possible. But my sibblings seem to leave the area and never come back even to hunt. I know my little brother would love to and tries to make it back but school and work seem to always work against him.
bkoenig:
Last year while deer hunting with my brother in law on the land he farms with my dad we saw some jerks about 1/2 mile away across the pasture actually open a gate and drive onto our land. We went to go run them off but the cows chose that moment to get out :(. This year I'm trying to talk them into putting boards with nails on the ground across all of their gates.
I agree the decline of hunting is a serious problem. We all need to do whatever we can to get the next generation involved in hunting and shooting. I know how easy it is to lose touch when you move to the city. I didn't hunt for probably 10 years after leaving home and moving to Lincoln. A 3 hour drive to your hunting ground makes it tough.
RobertH:
--- Quote from: bkoenig on October 07, 2009, 07:12:59 PM ---This year I'm trying to talk them into putting boards with nails on the ground across all of their gates.
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my father and i thought about doing the same thing. is that legal? i think its legal as long as its on your land. i doubt we'd ever do that, because everyone knows who owns what land and we're scared of the payback or revenge.
also, what if someone is trespassing on your land without permission and gets hurt, can the landowner get sued?
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