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Outlaw hunters

Trinity man

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We been having someone coming in on our place on the Trinity River spot lighting the past few weeks. Well tonight I got them cold busted with a 270 pointed right at them. These guy think I jump right out of a tree by them by the way they looked when they seen the gun. :shock: They first seen my truck parked over a cattle guard where they came in, but I wasn't in the truck. I was standing beside a peacan tree about 20 feet from them. The look was priceless and it was better when the law got there. I first told them no I never call law we take care of these kind of things the old way. The DPS officers got a big kick out of that. I bet they want be back anytime soon.
 
We are loaded with peacans this year, more than I have ever seen on them. I need to take some pictures and post them, because you all would believe it. When we start harvesting I will see IF anyone wants some. :wink: We may get 20-30 thousand pounds this year just off our trees, then we have the another ramches trees to harvest. So I will be a nutty ranch starting in Nov. :lol:

The Outlaw hunters was looking for hogs. I told them IF they would have came by our house I may have let them go, but just going on their own free will I will not. I felt bad for them because I knew them, but I also knew they have been busted on several other ranches and still haven't learn better.
 
About a year after I bought this place ( I was on the sheriff's Dept at the time ) I was spreading manure in a back field that was up high beside a 22 acre woods and I saw a pickup coming down the lane - - - opened and left open three gates on the way back to where I was.

I pulled the tractor up to the truck and ask what they were doing here - - - both guys pointed shotguns ( squirll season ) at me and told me to get back to my work laughing real hard. I got off the tractor on the right side so it was between me and them and the next thing they saw was a 357 pointed at them over the hood of the tractor.

In 1973 cell phones were not heard of so I took their guns and wrote the plate number down on the hood of the tractor. I told them they could retrieve the shotguns at the jail and the gates better be closed as they left. They never did come to the jail to retrieve the shotguns so I later sold them. About a month later one of my cows was shot with bird shot and I have always wondered if they snuck back????

About 10 years before that while I was in high school I had a chain and padlock on a gate that hunters kept leaving open - - - Dad told me he came by the gate and it was open. I drove the old JD model "H" down - - - the chain had been cut and there was a car with Indianapolis tags in the pasture. I put a chain on it and drug it tires skidding into the barn and called the sheriff. A deputy got there about the time a group of hunters came tracking the skidmarks to the house. The deputy made them give me the money they had on them for "repairs" and told them to find a place where they could get permission to hunt!
 
George said:
About a year after I bought this place ( I was on the sheriff's Dept at the time ) I was spreading manure in a back field that was up high beside a 22 acre woods and I saw a pickup coming down the lane - - - opened and left open three gates on the way back to where I was.

I pulled the tractor up to the truck and ask what they were doing here - - - both guys pointed shotguns ( squirll season ) at me and told me to get back to my work laughing real hard. I got off the tractor on the right side so it was between me and them and the next thing they saw was a 357 pointed at them over the hood of the tractor.

In 1973 cell phones were not heard of so I took their guns and wrote the plate number down on the hood of the tractor. I told them they could retrieve the shotguns at the jail and the gates better be closed as they left. They never did come to the jail to retrieve the shotguns so I later sold them. About a month later one of my cows was shot with bird shot and I have always wondered if they snuck back????

About 10 years before that while I was in high school I had a chain and padlock on a gate that hunters kept leaving open - - - Dad told me he came by the gate and it was open. I drove the old JD model "H" down - - - the chain had been cut and there was a car with Indianapolis tags in the pasture. I put a chain on it and drug it tires skidding into the barn and called the sheriff. A deputy got there about the time a group of hunters came tracking the skidmarks to the house. The deputy made them give me the money they had on them for "repairs" and told them to find a place where they could get permission to hunt!

I love that! Today a man would get sued for all he was worth if he did any of that...
 
I sympathize with any of you having problems with hunters who do not understand the concept of "sportsmanship". We haven't had any large problems, but the jerks do make life frustrating, nerver the less.

In todays world it might be pretty dangerous to confront them, and in too many places there is little help from any law, whether county or game and fish management, it seems.

We don't have time to either hunt of manage hunting so contracted with a friend who has a business sideline of putting GOOD hunters on the land and it is handy to be able to tell 'wanna be's' that they will have to talk to him, instead of us. He does some things needing doing, such as a 'first hunt' for kids without connection to the sport and a doe hunt with meat donated to food programs.

It appears to us that between the drought and predators, it may be a little hard to find good deer this fall in our area, or in future years more so.

mrj
 

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