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<blockquote data-quote="rukiddin" data-source="post: 4547863" data-attributes="member: 6860"><p><strong>Re: Farmer depredation</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Most farmers I know have let strangers and Still let close friends hunt their land but they got fed up with babysitting a bunch of deer hunters. Not shooting enough deer, rutting up fields, trash, hunters calling farmers and squabbling over other hunters hunting the property. </p><p>Farmers and landowners don't wanna deal with the drama. And sooner or later, there will be drama. My dad owned 250 acres and let a couple guys hunt he didn't know who called because they saw the phone number on the posted signs. Within a year, both were calling my dad and bitching about what the other guy had done. He finally just said enough is enough and stopped letting anyone hunt except for my two cousins who lived right beside the property. </p><p></p><p>As far as the trapping idea.....who gonna pay for it? TWRA is already stretched pretty thin both financially and personnel. </p><p></p><p>A lot of my friends Farm and some of them shoot deer during the summer. But in the 25 years I've known them to depredation shoot in the summer, it has never affected the deer numbers from a quality of hunt perspective. They all hunt also and still kill plenty of deer throughout the season. They give the deer they shoot in the summer to the Hispanics who work for them. They will never leave deer laying. A deer skeleton will shutdown a combine quick. </p><p>My personal opinion is A hobby is never as important as a mans job.........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rukiddin, post: 4547863, member: 6860"] [b]Re: Farmer depredation[/b] Most farmers I know have let strangers and Still let close friends hunt their land but they got fed up with babysitting a bunch of deer hunters. Not shooting enough deer, rutting up fields, trash, hunters calling farmers and squabbling over other hunters hunting the property. Farmers and landowners don’t wanna deal with the drama. And sooner or later, there will be drama. My dad owned 250 acres and let a couple guys hunt he didn’t know who called because they saw the phone number on the posted signs. Within a year, both were calling my dad and bitching about what the other guy had done. He finally just said enough is enough and stopped letting anyone hunt except for my two cousins who lived right beside the property. As far as the trapping idea.....who gonna pay for it? TWRA is already stretched pretty thin both financially and personnel. A lot of my friends Farm and some of them shoot deer during the summer. But in the 25 years I’ve known them to depredation shoot in the summer, it has never affected the deer numbers from a quality of hunt perspective. They all hunt also and still kill plenty of deer throughout the season. They give the deer they shoot in the summer to the Hispanics who work for them. They will never leave deer laying. A deer skeleton will shutdown a combine quick. My personal opinion is A hobby is never as important as a mans job......... [/QUOTE]
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