Anyone have some crazy stories about getting caught tresspassing? Or some other hunters flipping their lid?
We were run off a guys land the year before last when we said we were hunting morels. He never got out to hunt them himself though .
Then last year we were on my parents land going along the fence line and a guy actually fired a 'warning' shot. Scared the crap outta me! Dude was huge too, like he needed a weapon again a woman less than half his size! Some neighbor!
I have been on both sides of this,the landowner and the trespasser..
now a landowner of some prime morel and deer hunting land,i used to
do alot of trespassing..now that i have spent the ungodly amount of
money it takes to own rural land these days,i give land owners more respect,and now understand the anger landowners seem to have,and not violate their rights.
Imagine if you had spent your life savings on a piece of property,and then some yahoo just decides to take it upon himself to reap the fruits and benefits from your hard earned land without consent from you.
I think many trespassers would live a much happier and content mushroom hunting life, if they just asked the landowners permission.
my 2 old cents
I'm a pistol packing papa,and when i walk down the street,you can hear all the people saying dont point your gun at me.Now girls im just a good guy,and im going to have my fun,so if you dont want to smell my smoke dont monkey with my gun.
-Blue yodler Jimmie Rodgers
My most harassment comes from a spot I have permission to hunt??Yep every year the guy that doesn't own the property harasses me.Last year when I told him I had permission to be there,he said,well I just talked to him and he ain't letting anyone in here.So I say to call him back up and we'll see.Well he didn't call him back and got real friendly(and invited me to his pig roast,Ha Ha).Guess it's a good thing cause he's protecting my spots!!But every year he comes off really angry at me...this year will prob. be no different
"Then,taking along some of the fruit of the land,they brought it down to us and reported,'The land which the lord,our God,gives us is good.'"Deuteronomy 1:25
Yeah, I hear you. The guy who ran us off his land was a friend of my parents. I guess his girlfriend had mentioned that she knew they had morels on their land to my Mom and thats why we went there. Unfortunately she doesn't own the land and her boyfriends kind of an ass...so that was not fun. And there wasn't a morel to be found so we struck out and got our asses chewed.
"Then,taking along some of the fruit of the land,they brought it down to us and reported,'The land which the lord,our God,gives us is good.'"Deuteronomy 1:25
me and a buddy were up in wisconsin a couple years ago out in the middle of no where and there was a woods right of the road loaded with elms not a house around so i dropped him off to see what he could find. i told him i would be back in 30 minutes to get him and when i got back and he told me what had happened i laughed my ass off. he said he got half way back in the woods and heard a 4 wheeler coming towards him and started heading towards the road but was not gonna make it before they got to him so he decided to drop his pants and act like he was taking a shit. when they got to him he told them he had a rough previous night at the bar and had the shits and couldnt make it to town and they were cool with him. that was back in our wild days but still a funny story.
me and a buddy were up in wisconsin a couple years ago out in the middle of no where and there was a woods right of the road loaded with elms not a house around so i dropped him off to see what he could find. i told him i would be back in 30 minutes to get him and when i got back and he told me what had happened i laughed my ass off. he said he got half way back in the woods and heard a 4 wheeler coming towards him and started heading towards the road but was not gonna make it before they got to him so he decided to drop his pants and act like he was taking a shit. when they got to him he told them he had a rough previous night at the bar and had the shits and couldnt make it to town and they were cool with him. that was back in our wild days but still a funny story.
LMAO, I just tell them I'm collecting venomous snakes for research, they always wish me the best of luck.
I see you all have learned the most important part of hunting, the ability to improvise. I will ask if i can find the landowner, if they are nice and decline I dont' go, if they are jerks i do, If i can't find them i just go. IF i am by myself i drive up the road aways. NEVER park where you are going in. NEVER come out within sight of the vehicle. Leave the morels at the edge of the timber where you can find them just in case. Put a few in a bag that you can live with giving up. If they or Sheriff don't see you enter or exit the land, they really have no case, but give them that handfull of morels and they feel they got their pound of flesh. I see literlly hundreds of # of rotted morels every year that went unpicked. No one planted those except mother nature, I consider that free range. Just my opinion.
brad i like that one we always wanted to try telling the landowner we were college students and were doing a paper on soil and needed different soil samples but never tried it.
Yep,me and my bud are always tellin each other we are bridge inspectors while rock hunting,as we usually park by a bridge!We have yet to make up some buisness cards
"Then,taking along some of the fruit of the land,they brought it down to us and reported,'The land which the lord,our God,gives us is good.'"Deuteronomy 1:25
I like the business card idea. I personally will use the excuse that I'm a third grade teacher and collecting owl pellets for the kids to dissect and examine.
Heard one of my grandpas friends say he ran at some people who were inching in on his honey hole once and started screaming about a skunk and flailing his arms. The guy is the size of a bear and just as hairy and he scared the hell out of them.
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