What would you do?

[User_3155]

Fun topic. Never really thought about it. Where I hunt I have zero cell service, like a 30 minute ordeal to get service to make an actual call. I would haver a reasonable discssion with said person. If no resolution I would try to find his vehicle and render it unmovable somehow Then make the drive to get officer and escort him back to trespassers vehicle.

Unless it had been one of those weeks, then he might get Roy D Mercer'd

 

[edl]

Some of you are willing to shoot someone who was scammed and is thinking he is in the right? Maybe he’d think you were the scammer?? It could happen, how many people check the legal description and all?

 

[dennishoddy]

Fun topic. Never really thought about it. Where I hunt I have zero cell service, like a 30 minute ordeal to get service to make an actual call. I would haver a reasonable discssion with said person. If no resolution I would try to find his vehicle and render it unmovable somehow Then make the drive to get officer and escort him back to trespassers vehicle.

Unless it had been one of those weeks, then he might get Roy D Mercer'd

God, I miss Brent and Phil on KMOD. Wife won tickets to TU football one weekend. We got to hang out with them for the evening.
At work when Roy D came on, it would get real loud with everyone cranking up their radios and pretending to work while listening to them.

 

[Okie4570]

It's happened 3x to landowners that I know. 2x the folks told them that "the landowner "John Doe" gave me permission" and they were actually being confronted by the landowner. The third time was a couple years after he passed away, and they told his wife that "John Doe" had given them permission. His wife asked when, they said "last week". Lol. This was all before cell phones, OnX, etc too

 

[retrieverman]

Some of you are willing to shoot someone who was scammed and is thinking he is in the right? Maybe he’d think you were the scammer?? It could happen, how many people check the legal description and all?

I’m sure getting scammed on a hunting lease happens, but I also think that claim can be an excuse to knowingly trespass.
I don’t have any desire to shoot anyone, but I’m only willing to put up with so much sh*t (see public restroom thread for details).

 

[User_3155]

God, I miss Brent and Phil on KMOD. Wife won tickets to TU football one weekend. We got to hang out with them for the evening.
At work when Roy D came on, it would get real loud with everyone cranking up their radios and pretending to work while listening to them.

My cousin had the whole {tape}? collection of all the calls. I miss those days!

 

[Oklahomabassin]

I remember one time... not sharing details about it.

 

[Snattlerake]

There are folks on here that will report you for advising destruction of someone’s property.

Letting the air out via the valve stem is not damage to property.

Amazing the number of accidental discharges while out walking the fields when one stumbles because of a 'snake hole'. Strange thing about it is that all those spent bullets seem to always end up in things like tire sidewalls or windshields . . . just can't figure it out

This is.

 

[Snattlerake]

When I was about 10 or 12, Dad found two fellas from OKC duck hunting on our pond. You could tell by the tag number back then. It was an X tag. He was upset and was walking up to them when one of them shot a duck on the water. Dad was incensed! He took their shotguns and made the fella that shot the duck swim out and get it.

He then confiscated their ducks and wrote down their tag number. He told them, "If you want your shotguns back the sheriff will have them, along with a complaint."

I heard later they never claimed their guns.

 

[TedKennedy]

I ran into a very similar situation when I was but 21 years old, and a brand new deer hunter. I was on my Grandma's land, sitting on the side of a hill. Some guy in orange walked the road at the top of the hill and disappeared. I didn't confront him because it was deer-thirty and figured I'd see him at dark.
Watched 4 does goof around for awhile, then they headed in the direction of the stranger. Heard a shot, and I went to investigate. Poacher was standing about 250 yards to my west when I got to him. I said "did you get him?" - poacher says , "I think I hit him but we'll never find him".
I saw a huge blood trail and said "he went down this way". About fifty yards later we were both looking at a very dead, and illegal doe. I said, well, we better call the game ranger" - poacher about crapped, "I can't afford a ticket!".

That's when I asked him who he was and how he came to be hunting there. He gave me some BS story about my grandma giving him permission. I told him who I was and told him he'd best exit and forget the incident, as well as never coming back. I gutted the doe and drug her up the hill, put her in the back seat of my 1979 Buick hatchback and went to grandma's to pick up my then wife. Did I mention the Buick had a white interior?

We drove home with the doe in the back seat, hoping not to get pulled over. Yes, I know it was illegal, but leaving it would be a sin. Looking back, I'm really glad that poacher was a coward and willing to walk away - I was a bit spicy in my younger years and would certainly have shot him if he acted in any way other than submissive.

For a little context, Oklahoma's deer herd was ridiculously small back then and does were a protected class for the most part. I view the poacher's actions as not merely lawbreaking or trespassing, but committing a moral outrage by killing a doe during that time period.