soooo lets pretend and lets say this is how the story goes no what ifs but this is how the story goes---- lets say i got a day of coyote hunting planned and a lonely piece of meth trash, trespasser has the need to be on my property for some reason. i watch as he drags his sorry a** out the truck and looks like he has plans on some hunting or something because he starts to pull a rifle out also, also to reach into the truck and grab a little brown sack. so being on taller ground in a thick wooded area with a ghillie suit on (because that is my camo no matter what), watching over a lower area that is cleared. him being in that clearing about 450yds out and this guy having no idea that i'm there, i lob me a shot towards the passenger side hitting the dirt (thats where i aim). he evidently would have a brown note moment and decides to get out of there immedialty. only to go to the cops and try and get me in trouble when knowing that his story has to start out as, "well i pulled up to this property i had no permission to be on and opened up this gate and drove about 200yds in".......yaaaa i doubt he is going to any authority.
like it says- your warning is on the gate.
forgive me for going off the beatn path but....
now you would have to understand that when this permission was given it was the time of the jackholes last year that were around the mulhull/orlando area that went around shooting up some cattle one night on drunkin rampage. the land owner i'm with is old school and his land was not far from the area along with others and no i would never want to take someones life over there one dumb time...unless a direct threat. its just hard to say what a**hat you will run into while there in the moment---a drunkin fool or some guy trying to sneek his younger kid onto a field to hunt/fish.
what i think sucks the most at time like owning some land makes it easier to point the finger at you--the land owner. like having a swimming pool in town, or a dog in a yard. no matter how tall the fence is, if a kid drowns or is bit by your dog, it's your a** somehow, no matter what you do. all i live on is a 6acres lot there is not much action for me but the lands i hunt you just never know sometimes....
but to be "LEGAL" about the deal is hard to say how to catch them. you need a tag # and evidence that they were there, or they have to be caught straight up in the act.
Wow, this is not the wild west guys but hey, it's your life. If you think a simple misdemeanor trespassing charge is worth killing a man over, then you have no common sense and should be behind bars. Lets see here, you see a trespasser, you call the police and you get to hunt another day. Option two, you see a trespasser, you fire a shot to scare him off, it ricochet and kills some one else or him and now you spend time in prison and never get to hunt or own a firearm ever again. The decision is very simple for me.
