Limb Chicken
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Guys,
I need to know what you would have done in a situation I had when my buddie and I were taking down tree stands this year.
We have been bowhunting a property for around six or seven years now with exclusive permission. There are two landowners and they want no one else on their land. Well, when we were taking down our tree stands we ran across one that wasn't ours. Called both land owners as well as a landowner to the north and none of them knew whose it was. The land owner to the north said the only one that had permission to hunt was his son-in-law and he said he knew he wasn't suppose to go on the grounds that we have permission to hunt.
Well we took the stand down after cutting the lock. I am not the kind of person who takes things and I don't want any bad feelings or any of our stands disappearing. If I could figure out whose stand it was I would return it and chalk it up to bad judgement on the trespassers part. We also have never had this problem, the land owners in area all know the situation and if ever we have a deer that dies on their land we always call them before we cross the fence.
What would you guys have done different or suggest we do now. We thought about turning it into the local DNR officer but we didn't want it to take it to that level we also thought about a letter to the tree it was on but who ever it was knew they weren't suppose to be in there hell, they were a good two-hundred yards into the property.
I guess I just wanted to hear your opinions on how it was handled. I am thinking about calling the surrounding land owners again and asking if it is theres or any one they might know and let them know that we respect their property and we expect the same.
The landowner did want the stand taken down but told us to keep the stand.
Thanks in advance for the responses.
Go Early, Stay Late... Limb Chicken
I need to know what you would have done in a situation I had when my buddie and I were taking down tree stands this year.
We have been bowhunting a property for around six or seven years now with exclusive permission. There are two landowners and they want no one else on their land. Well, when we were taking down our tree stands we ran across one that wasn't ours. Called both land owners as well as a landowner to the north and none of them knew whose it was. The land owner to the north said the only one that had permission to hunt was his son-in-law and he said he knew he wasn't suppose to go on the grounds that we have permission to hunt.
Well we took the stand down after cutting the lock. I am not the kind of person who takes things and I don't want any bad feelings or any of our stands disappearing. If I could figure out whose stand it was I would return it and chalk it up to bad judgement on the trespassers part. We also have never had this problem, the land owners in area all know the situation and if ever we have a deer that dies on their land we always call them before we cross the fence.
What would you guys have done different or suggest we do now. We thought about turning it into the local DNR officer but we didn't want it to take it to that level we also thought about a letter to the tree it was on but who ever it was knew they weren't suppose to be in there hell, they were a good two-hundred yards into the property.
I guess I just wanted to hear your opinions on how it was handled. I am thinking about calling the surrounding land owners again and asking if it is theres or any one they might know and let them know that we respect their property and we expect the same.
The landowner did want the stand taken down but told us to keep the stand.
Thanks in advance for the responses.
Go Early, Stay Late... Limb Chicken