We have a guy at the lease next door that is always believing that people are trespassing and hunting his blind.
After listening to him all season we went to his blind and left beer bottles all over the place. Then threw in a handful of spent .223 casings on the floor, empty can of snuff, and took his game camera.
We figured that he would go nuts, but he caught on. He came back to camp and said that he was looking at a way of getting back at us. He saw right through our little trick.

In Texas, things are different. True Texans are generally reasonable and rational people, that value their word and their respect in the community. Going off half-cocked and shooting someone over a cut fence is not the way a true Texan would act. That kind of behavior is not becoming of a man of honor and logic. A true Texan would call the law in this situation.

Last December, I stepped out my front door at night and saw a red LED light way off in the woods on the 300 acres of no fence land I manage. Knowing it as poachers, I got my gun (for my protection) and got in my truck while calling the GW. I watched them until the GW and the Sheriff showed up, but by then, they had walked off my land to there truck that was park on the other side of a county road. They were a couple of young teenagers. They peed their pants when the spotlights hit them. They claimed they had been there the whole time when the GW talked to them. I told the GW to get their names, tell them that I knew they were on my land and had watched them, and let them go. They have never been back on my land.

No one needs to die over an animal or a fence. We were all young and irresponsible once. We were all given a chance to learn from our mistakes.