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God Blessed Poachers

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#1 ·
10:56 Central time sharp bark of .30-06 or similar either across the road and tracks or on the road down the road just behind our home.
Friday, put a new salt block out 50 ft from home, crack then crack of a small limb maybe 20 to 30 ft overhead and close by. Shots from above our home. I called out who is shooting behind our home. I said I'll be up in a few minutes to bust your asses. Not very Christian of me. Of course no way with knee and leg and ankle I'm going anywhere but the quit.
Ten minutes later 2 UTVs come roaring down the road ,from I believe, a road a quarter mile behind us. They went off the property that way, I think.
Last week 2:08 in the morning, I hear karaaaack a high powered rifle fired along side of the hill. the unique echo of a shot and boom along side of hill.
I got the flashlight from beside the bed and looked over the side yard the hill and creek and field, nothing just darkness. A car did fly down the road, from behind us on the road.
I didn't call the Sheriff because a 2:00am anyone on duty is the other side of the Country.
I may have a bullet hole in side of our home or all, I know.
They have figured out I'm not much of a threat, I guess.
Dispatch said said Sheriff was going to talk to TWRA to see about setting something up.
It is darned cold at 14 degrees or I would have ventured out with flash light and AR15.
We don't feel especially safe now.
Four deer behind the house yesterday and a few in the cove but no bucks. Before Hunting season, actually they started shooting before it there were several nice Bucks.
I'm not sure I'm up to it but I may have to sleep days and bundle up and pick me a sight that might be most advantageous and try catching them. Don't think I can do it but I ddon't know what else to do.
 
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#43 ·
I don't hunt, but as I understand the VA state regulations, there are "seasons" for various game, but no regulation on your own private land - excepting endangered species.

There is in excess of 1800 acres of private land adjacent to my property, with a hunt club active. As long as the owner of the property approves, it isn't poaching. But it is once they cross our common stream and come onto my property. One would think that with over 1800 acres of pristine woods available, they wouldn't be inclined to cross onto my meager 25 acres.

One would be wrong...
 
#45 ·
It's my understanding that feral pig and hog are considered pests, not game. So someone looking to feed their family by hunting can do so, legally, by specifically going after pig and hog. Contact local farmers and landowners about whether they have problems with feral pigs and get permission to hunt on their land. In some areas, there are websites advertising that there is a hog problem in a given area and supply contact information for hunters to come out and help them fix the problem.
 
#48 ·
in Texas, you still need a hunting license to hunt feral hogs, except if you are on private land you own or control. there are no tags or limits, but you still have to have license to hunt legally.

i have actually tried that a couple of times in the past to get some measure of control over the feral or wild hogs. advertised on Craigslist for free hog hunting. that was dismal failure. the vast majority that did end up showing up to hunt were some of the worst hunters and people i have ever seen. trashy, destructive, unsafe, ect., ect., . nope won't go that route ever again.

one group only really wanted to "hunt" so to speak so they could have a place in the woods to party and drink. huge mess is what they left us. one group decided they couldn't find any hogs so they decided to use our farm as their private mud bogs for their 4wd atv's and trucks. got several stuck and did lots of damage to the land that i had to end up repairing. and i could go on.

there are only a handful of people that i will now allow to hunt at all on any of the land on our property down here at the farm. but i have known them for many years. very seldom do thy actually come down here to hunt, but at least i don't have problems if they do.

some people might mention about the hogs being a problem, and why some landowners having a hog problem would want to charge hunters to hunt that problem on their land. i think if my past experiences are any indication, then i can understand 100% why they want to charge hunters to hunt on their land. i wished i had.
 
#47 ·
Ghost, it is a private club, under contract with the owner of the property (NOT a friend of mine!!!). They have been ratcheted down of late and may be a bit more responsible now since the owner's fees have increased exponentially due to legal concerns.

Ellis, they leave our fence alone and have discovered how to either jump over or go between the high-tensile fence in out pasture. They are certainly welcome and I have - on occasion - discovered deer tracks in our horses' dry-lot. Seems they get along.

I don't grow anything, so they are certainly welcome to whatever they'd like on our farm. I even put out a feed block for them for the winter should they need the nutrients. We typically have a heard/group no larger than 12, and seeing fawns each spring brings us joy. Our neighbors feel the same. So, my 25 acres are a safe haven for the critters, as well as my next-door neighbors' 10 and 15 acres respectively.

My Fi (avatar) loved to chase them initially, but eventually grew to just happily bark at them or study/stalk them. Great joy, and I miss those times.

Different strokes for different folks. We're not overpopulated here, and I've noticed fewer deer since I lost my Fi.
 
#57 ·
Actually the best way is to use 1080 BUT that is a poison that just keeps on giving and is just cruel BUT the authorities still use it on everything from rabbits, wild dogs and foxes, pigs and are trying like hell to get stuff like Strychnine used on deer. They also want deer removed from the game animal list to pest list so as they can then use Chopper shoots and poisoning to thin them out.

Feral pigs here breed about the same rate and even if you say a sow drops 8 piglets and out of that 8 3 survive their 1st 6 months they're ready to breed around 6 months I think it is. So to really control them the way to go is to trap, poison, shoot.
Here in Australia it's estimated that there's roughly 1 pig per person so that's something like 23 million pigs in Australia not counting our politicians and not a chance in Hell of ever wiping them out.
 
#58 ·
Not a fan of poisons as it can spread.

Don't have a feral hog problem here, so I acknowledge my lack of understanding about the damage they do.

But it seems that the market for ham, bacon, and other pork products is ripe. The previous owner of our farm raised pigs and loved them dearly. I could never kill/eat what I raised (very likely a disgraced "farmer"). Just who I am...

But there is a limit, and were a wild boar problem become a local problem - particularly if they threatened our critters, then it is "game on". I'll need to learn how to dress them, though...and check my cholesterol on a more regular basis...Love bacon and porkl!
 
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