Travel 10 hours to tresspass!!!

[chris lavoie]

I am usually on vacation at this time of year. This year I chose to delay our vacation till the end of deer season, as last year we noticed that someone was hunting our patent land while we were gone. I have a outpost cabin with all the accessories in running a camp stored there for the winter. On Sunday Nov.27/11, I went into our property, driving right by my gate, which is posted. We just recieved 3 inches of snow overnight. I noticed ATV tracks entering into the patent land. I drove to a certain point and followed the rest of the distance on foot. The tracks took me right to MY treestand, with a hunter in it. I politely stated he was tresspassing and if he argued I would press charges for entering our posted land. He said he hunted here last year and thought everyone was gone for the winter. He chose to leave without an arguement. The next day I noticed more ATV tracks. This time they went in a different direction away from the gate. The loggers cut a chunk of crown land right up to our boundry. The same hunter set up a ground blind along our treeline and put a bait 2 metres from my NO TRESSPASSING sign. It was obvious that any wounded deer would run onto our land when hit. I again talked to this hunter from WISCONSIN an told him he WILL NOT be able to tresspass to retreive his animal if it went onto my land. Because it was obvious he knew the animals would run to patent land, I stood my ground and reported him to the conservation officers to give the WISCONSIN hunter a warning for Sundays episode.

[cjg]

Might be easier to just give him permission. Maybe he'sa good guy.

[Nick Roehl]

Might be easier to just give him permission. Maybe he'sa good guy.

No you don't give in to idiots like this. No good guy trespasses on other people's land. Nail him every time you get a chance!

[cjg]

Coming from a state that has comaratively little posted land, lots of large land owners, paper companies etc, the "mine, mine, mine" attitude of posting everything kills me. The majority of our posted land is in the southern 1/3 of the state that has been infiltrated with "people from away" and post their land as soon as they move in. I personally have 2 pieces of land, 9 and 54 acres that aren't posted and don't have any problem with people recreating on them. I can understand why people post their land from some instances that I have seen, trash dumped etc, but I'm pretty sure most hunters aren't going to dump trash where they plan to hunt. Just a different way of life here I guess.

[Nick Roehl]

I live in North Dakota. I hunt on wide open prairies and lots of farm land. When I was a kid nothing was posted, but out of staters have bought up a lot of land and now farmers post everything. Land is broken down into quarters and even smaller all with different owners. It's a major pain here now.
But I still respect the owners right to post his land.

[cjg]

Most of ours are from Mass. Fortunately a lot of land is owned by timber companies and they let you on them with no issues.

[chris lavoie]

There are thousands of acres of crown land for anyone, resident or not, to deer hunt here in W. Ontario. He doesn't need my land or any other persons posted land. When I travel into the States to vacation ( as I am right now ), I see it as a privelege, not a right!! I will do everything I can to follow the laws of your ( Americans ) land. I do this because I enjoy your country and it's people. Ontario is one of North America's last provinces to allow non residents to hunt whitetails on their own, without a guide. Hunters who tresspass will eventually ruin your privelege to hunt here on your own. Also being charged for tresspassing shows up on the computer at Canada customs when you enter into Canada. CJG, do you ignor no tresspassing signs when your bear dogs cross onto patent land?? What do you do when this happens?

[cjg]

It's not posted where I hunt for thousands of acres.