Quote: David C.Frost

<<<<Irish Setter named Stormy, good dog.
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Howard, surely that's a typo!!! ha ha.

DFrost

I just got that. No, its true.

/////He actually gets pissy when you work him hard and then never get a bird for him to retrieve. \\\\\

When I was little my Dad had a bird dog that was just incredible. If there weren't any birds, though, she would get bored and kind of aggravated.

One day, after spending hours and finding no birds, she had wandered off a ways while Dad rested for a minute. She came back with something in her mouth, and it was a LIVE bird she had just gone out and picked up.

Another time she came up to hand him something, and it was a live field mouse, who promptly bit Dad on the hand!

Our German Shorthair would do that too. Especially if Doug was busy during hunting season and she had to stay home more than she "thought" she should.

Never did it if we hunted her a lot. I sure miss her.

+++++ I sure miss her. +++++

That made me think of a wonderful drug dog we had named Sammie. Truly a remarkable dog.

One day while inspecting a school, her handler stopped outside a boys restroom to talk with a school admin. Sammie got bored and wandered into the restroom.

She promptly returned and put a baggie of marijuana at their feet.

The joke then became "Sammie, you go find it, and I'll wait right here..."

She passed away around the first of this year from cancer. Our entire staff misses her dearly.

This seem a good place to put this rant of a kind.

It's closing in on bow season here and all the hunters are starting to stake out their tree stands. Okay with me, but I'm getting tired of people that think that just because they can't see a house around it's okay to just put up their stand and hunt. The laws in this state are very clear about setting up tree stands and the requirements to do so, in fact it's on the first page in the rules and regs booklet given when a license is bought. I'm sick of walking through my woods and running into a hunter or tree stand I didn't know was there. The tree stands are a particular gripe with me.
I have no problem with people wanting to hunt on my property, I just like to keep track of where and how many there are.
Does anyone else have this problem? And how do they deal with the people who are basicly law breakers?

Randy

My husband has a ranch in South Texas for Deer, hogs etc.
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We use the venison for not only ourselves but the dogs also. They have recently started hunting in Africa but all that meat goes to the local natives!

I just don't allow people to hunt on my property. Friends know all they have to do is ask. We take trespassing very seriously in the south.

DFrost

Randy, what state you live in?

And by "my woods", do you mean the woods on your property? Or just local public land?

...cuz if someone put a stand on MY land, there'd be hell to pay!

I have a friend who was hunting on Tx state land a few years ago. There were LOTS of idiots putting up stands in those woods. One year he had a guy put a stand up on the path he had marked to his own stand. He took the opportunity to pee at the base of that guy's stand every chance he got.

Yo, I'm out here in the willy wags of Maine.
Yep, it's my land if I can believe the deed and tax rolls.
I've got no problem with hunters per se, only the the jerks that think any undeveloped land is theirs to use as they please. So far I've gone through 2 generations of 4 wheelers and keeping them on a marked trail to cross my piece of heaven. 2 generations of snowmobilers that thought it'd be okay to cut a trail out of the woods for their convenience to get to the trail provided. And it's all worked out for the good.
However, this thing with hunters. They seem to think it's their birthright to do as they please. And I'm getting tired of fighting the small wars that get started when I put my foot down. Because frankly, it doesn't seem to matter how I've tried to handle it, somehow things just get amped up.
So now another season is starting and for the first time in my life I'm thinking of post 'no hunting' on the property. When all I really want is some courtesy and some consideration. I care about what's happening in my little eden, and I don't know why I shouldn't have some control without any grief over it.
I grew up where we hunted on spreads that encompassed 10's of thousands of acres. My parents always asked the owner before we ever crawled through any barbed wire or opened a gate. Even if all we could see was horizon or the mountains in the far distance.

Whats happen to common decency?
Randy

 Quote: david c.frost

I just don't allow people to hunt on my property. Friends know all they have to do is ask. We take trespassing very seriously in the south.

DFrost

My signs here in the mid west say, "Trespasser will be Shot......and used for K9 training"

Seriously, trespassing is a HUGE NO NO here too.