I’d keep the camera out but hide it real well and catch me some trespassers and nail their ass to the wall.

Owning your own property doesn’t stop the problems either. We just had road poachers shoot towards our house last night at 4 am. I just happened to be outside letting my dog out when it happened. They killed a small yearling buck and just left it. They did the same thing last weekend. Calling the game thief hotline this morning resulted in nothing more than the dispatcher telling me it wasn’t the game wardens problem. Called the sheriff and they said it was a game warden problem. We’ve pretty much decided that we will be putting our place up for sale and moving to another state where hunting/property ethics are at least somewhat existent.

Owning your own property doesn’t stop the problems either. We just had road poachers shoot towards our house last night at 4 am. I just happened to be outside letting my dog out when it happened. They killed a small yearling buck and just left it. They did the same thing last weekend. Calling the game thief hotline this morning resulted in nothing more than the dispatcher telling me it wasn’t the game wardens problem. Called the sheriff and they said it was a game warden problem. We’ve pretty much decided that we will be putting our place up for sale and moving to another state where hunting/property ethics are at least somewhat existent.

Crazy thing is, I guess, a poacher just HAS to do it. I’ve known poachers that had legal right to hunt really good land that would go poach mediocre land. Just never made any sense to me.

Crazy thing is, I guess, a poacher just HAS to do it. I’ve known poachers that had legal right to hunt really good land that would go poach mediocre land. Just never made any sense to me.

I don't know howinhell the dispatcher said shooting from the road at 4am and killing a deer was NOT a GWs problem, sounds like that is exactly what it is. Ride someones ass upstream till something gets done.

Exactly.

kb717, on Monday morning you need to be on the phone with the DCNR Law Enforcement office in Montgomery to let them know what happened and what you were told by the dispatcher.

Here's the number - (334) 242-3467

And if you think you can find a state where "ethics" means no one will shoot at a deer at night, you might want to consider China or Sweden. Ignorant azzhole poaching scum live in all 50 states.

Thanks for the telephone number. I have Warden Blair Sistrunk's direct number too so I'll give him a direct call to let him know what happened. Yeah I know its a pipedream to think that any of the states are any better. We've just had limit of issues for the two short years we have been here.

So the way I read it they vandalized your property and trespassed. Unless there are indications of them hunting, which the donuts in the field would tend to support them not hunting but just being asses, it would be an Sheriff Dept. issue and not a GW issue.

Did I miss something?

Two different scenarios in this thread.

Have you thought about planting a screen from the road. A few feet of bamboo, or a couple rows of spice/fur trees and they can't see the field from the road. It may help to even plant Egyptian wheat that grows real tall in the summer and stays up. I agree to catch em and grind them in court, but make it as hard on em as you can.

Good idea. EXCEPT the bamboo. If you plant it you will NEVER get rid of it and will take over everything