Posting Land

Glad I read this thread.. do not know if the purple paint is good for around here, but it is nice to know and easy to do just in case.

I am slowly posting our new property. I just do not need hunters on our place period. Miniature horses in grass taller than they are is not a good combo..even close to the house.
There the only animals that I have right now,,and have always been my favorites and do not want them hurt or killed.

Had one disabled guy come up.. saying he let all the disabled people hunt on his land,,, like thinking,, "oh good for you". Then he said he understands that I do not want hunting, but like he expects me to allow him too in the future.
Not in a million years.
I know I probably should not of said this... But I said I track very well and have been know to hunt folks down like my Dad does.. and that I don't miss with the 30 30...Just ask my dear husband.... oh,, and I do not allow strange Men, or any man for that matter on my land when my husband is not home, rather old fashion that way, with a big smile on my face. He politely backed off my porch.

Lt. Wombat, I liked how you take the gas out of the ATV's,, thats a good one. :O)

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Rifle season opened today and I had to run two hunters off my clearly posted land. One fellow on a four wheeler had to drive past 3 signs to get to the area I was at. He didn't see me but was less than 20 foot away when I fired a warning shot from my extremly loud 300 win mag. I'm surprised he didn't hit a tree trying to get out of there as fast as he did. LOL. Personally, I have more fun doing this than deer hunting.

You can make a citizens arrest and legaly brandish a weapon as long as you don't use anything that can be considered deadly force. Catching a couple violators and hauling them into town will get the word out pretty fast not to tresspass on your land.

Devices that ruin ATV's but leave the rider unharmed are also a good method of pest control. Years ago we used to take shotgun shells, and empty the bb's out. Then modify a mousetrap so that when it went off it struck the primer. Then ran some fishing line to the trap.. If you hide a couple of these people will think someone is shooting at them when they trigger them. Just be sure you take the BB's out!!

One year we ran some poacher down and when I caught him I asked him if he was a no good Communist. He looked at me like I was crazy and said "N-n-n-no s-s-s-ir". "We'll," I asked, "why do you think you are entitled to share this property with me then?" The Sheriff hauled him off and no legal action was taken but I think he must have come to embrace capitolism cause he hasn't been back since.

Just remember. It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games without depth perception!

Only hunter problem I've had here were hunting dogs let loose with radio collars. They invariably go after my chickens every time, but the fence around my chicken area has kept them from getting at the chickens so far.

Every time I catch them doing this, I catch the offending dogs that I can, remove those expensive radio collars, and let the dogs loose again. I put magnets on the collars to shut off their transmitters, and take note of the name on the tag, just to see who was stupid enough to turn their dogs loose on other peoples private property.

I have never see the same name twice, so they must get the hint after losing several hundred dollars in radio collars at a time. Not to mention having to track down their dogs without radiolocation assistance.

The occurances have been getting less and less frequent in the past 2 years. I've only collected 2 collars this year.

I kept one of each color and sent the rest to a friend in Colorado to sell when he needed money. I now have a very colorful radio collar collection, don't you think? :haha:




Bob

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Hay Southern Thunder,I like your way of comuting with the hunters, can you put a diagram of your device you made with the mouse trap?

Well I said mousetrap but I ment rat trap. If I recall correctly a mousetrap didn't have the force needed to set off most primers. I don't have a diagram but I think I can explain it well enough to confuse even myself.

Ya take a good size rat trap. With it unarmed you want to bore a hole in it so a shotgun shell will fit tightly into the hole and the lip of the shell will not pass through. This hole goes on the half of the trap where the rat's dead head would usualy be. (put it as close to the edge as possible without splitting the trap.) Next you want to take a pair of pliers and bend the snapper down so that it will line up with the primer of the shell.

Then you take that little thing you put the cheese on and pull it off and throw it away. Now, without the shell in the trap, pull the snapper back to where it would be when you normally arm it. Now take the little catch lever (the one that used to go into the bait thing you just threw away) and bend it over the snapper. Whith it bent you should be able to push it up under the spring. This will require more pressure to trigger it which is what we want. Now just tie the string (or fishin line) around that wire you just bent and nail the trap to a tree.

You of course don't want to put loaded shells in this thing cause you will likely have a mess to clean up. (you know, antifreeze, oil, gasoline, human blood etc...) You can take a hack saw and CAREFULLY cut the shell just after the wad and before the BB's and remove the BB's. (If you weren't concerned about lawsuits now would be the time to bring out the good ol fashioned rocksalt and pipe.) This effectively makes the shotguns shell a "blank" but a blank in your eye will still kill you so position it carefully. (pointed down or away from the trip wire just to be safe)

One last thing... if it fails to fire the shell when it is tested you may need to glue a marble or BB over the primer so that the snapper will engage it properly.

There is probably a better way at doing this but this was the cheapest for us and it seemed to work real good. Never did catch any rats with them but they worked good at routing their two legged cousins.

Folks around here stick up signs all along thier property about every so many feet. Its also well known that if you do not ask permission to go ahuntin on someones land then you might run into someones shotgun! This is the south though so we are held to our belief in Smith and Wessons living at home. They actually make signs you can purchase such as these! Anyhoo, aorund here if someone wants to hunt or come across your place for any reason they call or more than likely stop by your place in person and ask permission first. BUt I dunno about other areas. Sorry ya'll have such a problem with tresspassing