Poachers.........

[Redman54]

My neighbor owns a 2,500 acre farm that is high fenced,(opinions on this may vary, but not the point of this post) He spares no expenses when it comes to maintaining the land that will benefit all wildlife. He has well established mast producing trees, several plots with mature fruit bearing trees, several cultivated fields that are planted with a variety of row crops that are left standing, etc.. Every year around the rut, they find at least one, some years more, deer that have been shot from the road by some low life, just for the sake of shooting them. Whoever is killing them has no intention to harvest the animal. I can't wrap my head around killing them just to let it rot. The most recent one that was found, was aged by their biologist at 3 1/2 years old. I can't imagine what this guy would have looked like in a few more years. These pictures really don't do this stud any justice. You can't reach around the bases, and the mass carries out all the way to the end of the main beams.

 

[JustUs4All]

Envy is a powerful motivator for some.

 

[Browning Slayer]

I would be cutting holes in that fence...

 

[specialk]

if yotes had horns there be nary a one in the woods....

 

[marshallknight]

I agree makes no sense. Has your friend considered planting some kind of screen bushes so that the deer wouldn't be visible from the road?

 

[blood on the ground]

A poacher is just another version of a thief! I have no use for a thief! Shooting deer inside a high fenced area and the shooter is on the outside and uninvited, well that takes poaching to a new level!
I had a friend with a small cattle farm years back. He had an orphan doe fawn take up with his cows one year. The deer would never leave the heard. She lived her life with the cows for the months. As summer gave way to fall he found her one morning in the pasture dead. She had been shot from the road at night!

 

[Redman54]

I agree makes no sense. Has your friend considered planting some kind of screen bushes so that the deer wouldn't be visible from the road?

Yes, he has the areas visible from the road planted but there are still some visible spots. This deer was shot at one of the main gates.

 

[WOODIE13]

He have cameras,?

 

[basshappy]

My thought exactly - why not have high quality cameras installed already? If the property owner has has had this issue previously why not invest in technology to record the offender / action?

 

[chase870]

if yotes had horns there be nary a one in the woods....

I have got to where I hunt them more than deer

 

[Long Cut]

Phone call to the GW’s to try out their robo buck would solve that.

 

[leesmith]

You can buy fence screen for cheap. Easy fix

 

[garveywallbanger]

High fence should not be legal

 

[kmckinnie]

High fence should not be legal

I agree. No man should be able to do what he wants on his land. This is America ! Them deer permits to grow peanut or other crops on there place. Band that to. We here to hunt wild deer. They then fence that in and get battery power equipment.

 

[SRShunter]

It does amaze me what a high fence can do to native deer tho. Didn't say I was for it, but man just shows what kinda studs we could grow

 

[Mexican Squealer]

Trigger control will do the same thing.

 

[SRShunter]

Trigger control will do the same thing.

I agree, but getting everyone on board with that. Good luck

 

[Triple C]

Boys...for the most part, we hunt toddlers and young teenagers in the south.

Lower your expectations and you'll enjoy it more.

High fence...Not for me but I'm all for a landowner putting up any kind of fence he so chooses.

 

[Redman54]

It does amaze me what a high fence can do to native deer tho. Didn't say I was for it, but man just shows what kinda studs we could grow

That is true.

 

[spencer12]

I’ve never understood 1.) why someone shoots deer at night from a road on others property and 2.) why they leave them after they shoot them.

I do not condone poaching and honestly I wish it came with prison time, but what’s the point of doing all that just to leave it there? You’ve already committed a few felonies so why not just go drag it out.