You sound just like them pieces of sheit i deal with all the time. They down everybody that stands up to their sorry butts and don't put up with their bs.
Gibson county trespassing..outside of Milan
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Hardwoodmaterials
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Oh NO I may never recover from that comment! There is very few left here with an opinion I value and unfortunately a bunch on this thread didn't make the cut! Sorry
Send coordinates please. I need somewhere in TN to poach.
No, it wasn't a free for all for sure. This was extremely rural Stewart and Henry counties. Everybody knew everybody, and locals didn't really care too much back in the 70's (I was about 10 years old) if their neighbors hunted all over them for small game. That didn't mean that out of towners could drive in and do that.
Fast forward to the 80's and deer hunting took off, NOBODY would tolerate that anymore. It caused some hard feelings. Several even received rough escorts off of the properties. Things really changed.
Didn't matter much to me, as I was content to hunt the Grandparents land and didn't need to venture off it to kill squirrels or deer.
He'll gladly let you. I'm sure he doesn't have any friends beating his door down.
Then why bother sticking around? If that was my mindset, I would simply leave the site. It ain't hard to do…
Please do, i dont want any of that trash hung up in my fence
That makes sense, I could definitely see that being the case
Wooden Arrow
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an inadvertent crossing, i don't care. catch the same person again...? if i find trail flagging, scent drippers, treestands etc, we have a problem. caught on to one guy from spotting the branches he trimmed out of shooting lanes, and backtracked them to the tree he used climber in. always hung stands/drippers etc in landowners front yard. nobody asked for them back...
The very first time I went hunting the landownder was showing us around his property and we ran across a guy that walked up to him and asked him if he had permission to hunt. He told the guy he was the landowner and he better move along. On opening weekend his place looked like a party there were so many different types of hunters hunting his place. He was glad to give us permission and we eventually ran everyone off. 40 years later and everywhere I hunt still have to deal with tresspassers. I'm not a fan, regardless if you've always hunted the place, if you think you're doing the turkeys a favor, or whatever. Tresspassing is just wrong. And I've never heard a coon hunter say "we pay good money to lease and hunt this land". If you do, good for you. If you don't, there's no excuse you can give that'll make me think its ok.
Good point. I never have heard a single one say that!
Lilbuckgetter
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That's caus us "coon hunters" can't afford to outbid non residents or never given opportunity! "hey we leased hunting rights"
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I really hate this discussion. Coon hunters serve a great purpose, but there's also some of them out there who just don't care and feel entitled. Thats not cool. Simply asking instead of assuming permission would solve a lot of this rift.
"not hurting anything" is an invalid response. If you want to go that route, there's a lot of ways to trespass on someone that don't technically hurt anything.
"not hurting anything" is an invalid response. If you want to go that route, there's a lot of ways to trespass on someone that don't technically hurt anything.
I may get flamed for this but here goes.....
I'm not a coon hunter but my cousin and his dad are hard-core, competition coon hunters. I will add that their dogs will rarely, if ever, run a deer but some guys dogs probably will.
My observation over the years on our family property (1,200 acres in McNairy county) is that their hunting has had zero impact on the deer hunting, even during the deer season.
My opinion is that if someone is a turkey hunter, you might try to develop a relationship with a good local coon hunter and give them permission to only hunt specific times during the year with the provision that they shoot out every coon they tree. I imagine they'll honor the dates you've allowed them to hunt rather than cross you and loose the permission....and that it will help your turkey population.
I'm not a coon hunter but my cousin and his dad are hard-core, competition coon hunters. I will add that their dogs will rarely, if ever, run a deer but some guys dogs probably will.
My observation over the years on our family property (1,200 acres in McNairy county) is that their hunting has had zero impact on the deer hunting, even during the deer season.
My opinion is that if someone is a turkey hunter, you might try to develop a relationship with a good local coon hunter and give them permission to only hunt specific times during the year with the provision that they shoot out every coon they tree. I imagine they'll honor the dates you've allowed them to hunt rather than cross you and loose the permission....and that it will help your turkey population.
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I agree that coon hunting doesn't hurt deer hunting (provided it's not happening the night before a deer hunt)
But that's not the issue. The issue is that they simply have no right to be on someone else's property. Regardless of intention.
A good coon hunter is a turkey hero. A coon hunter who hunts without regard for property boundaries is just north of a squatter IMO.
I concur with this...they should have permission or not intentionally hunt there.
Not saying its right but in the past hunters really had no choice except to go get the dogs off a tree, wherever they were. But nowadays, with electronic collars with GPS tracking and lots of training, my uncle and his son can call their dogs back from anywhere.
If the dogs are within earshot, they can holler out and the dogs will either break off a track or a tree and start heading back to the truck or, if the dogs are out of earshot, they can give the dog a "warning buzz" on their collar...with the warning buzz, they've been conditioned to stop whatever they're doing and get back to the truck right now, and they do.
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killingtime 41
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Problem is for generations nobody cared what coon hunters were up to as long as they were hunting coons. Some still think it's still like that. That was when everyone you knew had chickens. And everyone wanted coons dead anyway possible. We also don't live in a world where everyone knows everyone anymore. 7 or 8 houses around me nowadays and I never see anyone home. Like timber jack said with a garmin collar no need to trespass anymore.
ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER
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You hit the nail on the head
