I hunt a 137 acre farm in south central kentucky. our land connects to public land (about 60 arces big) and on opening day of gun season it is nothing to hear 45 shots in the creek bottoms (public lands). then you will have drunks with guns crossing fences onto your land ? called police but by the time they get there, drunks gone.
Any ideas?????

mike1255 - 10 October 2008 10:01 AM

I hunt a 137 acre farm in south central kentucky. our land connects to public land (about 60 arces big) and on opening day of gun season it is nothing to hear 45 shots in the creek bottoms (public lands). then you will have drunks with guns crossing fences onto your land ? called police but by the time they get there, drunks gone.
Any ideas?????

put trail cams out to catch them in the act, then take the pictures to the police. it worked for us at my old club.

This is defintely a problem that has been discussed on other forums I visit. The one thing that one should never do is confront the culprit for numerous reasons. Best bet is to, as stated by the other response, is the trail cam idea. If you don’t have No Trespassing Signs posted, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do so. It’s cheap insurance. You do have every right to protect yourself and your property and all that is in it. Just don’t delibrately set up a trap or anything that could potentially do physical harm to that person with the possibility of getting sued. It’s a terrible feeling that you have been violated and even more worse that we as land owners can’t handle these type of situations in this day and age. Best of luck to you.