i have many good reasons not to. good people and good friends on the lease, good land owner. get to take my daughter or friend without huge restrictions other than tag sharing on deer. i have no desire to leave.

How well do you know the other hunters on the lease? Is it possible the other hunters are allowing friends or family access?

I understand where your coming from. But....if you choose to stay you should understand that this problem will continue. Once the ranch hands and farm hands know that it's an absentee land owner, they can basically get away with whatever they want. Once you post pictures and go on the forum they can easily harass your hunting set up without ever trespassing. Once they know you have cameras, it is very easy for them to circumvent. If your going to stay, you'd be better off coming to an agreement with them on hog hunting. Then they will at least respect your property. The LO is not going to want to lose the ranching and farming revenue along with the ag exemption.

very well. i have known two of them for almost 15 years. was not them. matter of fact, most of them rarely come out themselves.




i get what you are saying. as for an agreement, not sure that will happen as the bridges were burnt from the other side. there was even a request to meet with the rancher previous to all this and it was suggested that we just stay away from him and that it would do no good. i/we understand the economics here at play. we are the small fish on this land in terms of revenue for the LO. still, i do contend he is a good guy.

figured i would update here. still need to go ahead and contact GW. while trail may be cold, pictures don't change. i personally spoke to the LO and he said under no uncertain terms were anyone other than us hunters on the lease allowed to hunt the land. he mentioned that at one point rancher was helping shoot some trapped hogs (we trapped them) in our dove field but as far as he was concerned that was it.

farmer was contacted again and he reiterated none on his team was involved and said that if they were immediate termination would occur. sounds like he is serious. also, here is where it gets interesting. apparently now we are finding out that rancher has hog dogs. and rancher wants to find these people too because we apparently think he did it. we also find out that the 101 is experiencing the same issue (trespassing/poaching or something). now hands from our ranch and 101 are "comparing notes". wonder what notes that is. i guess they could be comparing whatever they have to my pictures. i am sure they have my pictures from this post. i know oiysome if not most of them are aware of this posting. i guess they can get all info they need from this. now that i think of it, i wonder why they have not contacted the GW....

This thread is hilarious. Especially the guy saying he would punch someone in the mouth for posting a picture of his dog. My gut hurts from laughing.