Purple paint on posts & trees

How many know what it means?

I always thought it meant "enter here".

It means no one is welcome or so that's what I grew up being told. I think referring to BP for example. Then again the rio grande valley can be back asswards. So I wouldn't be shocked if I was totally wrong.

Private property...keep out

Any responsible hunter should. If i remember correctly, they cover it in hunter safety classes, and it is in the tpw booklet offered when you renew your license.

funny

no hunting, no trespassing.
one of the first hunting rules I learned.

Either no hunting or a Tarleton State alumni or maybe both

It means proceed with caution. HA. It means stay out. No Entrada. Do not pass go. Turn around now. No trespassing.

http://law.onecle.com/texas/penal/30.05.00.html

§ 30.05. CRIMINAL TRESPASS. (a) A person commits an
offense if he enters or remains on or in property, including an
aircraft or other vehicle, of another without effective consent or
he enters or remains in a building of another without effective
consent and he:
(1) had notice that the entry was forbidden; or
(2) received notice to depart but failed to do so.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Entry" means the intrusion of the entire body.
(2) "Notice" means:
(A) oral or written communication by the owner or
someone with apparent authority to act for the owner;
(B) fencing or other enclosure obviously
designed to exclude intruders or to contain livestock;
(C) a sign or signs posted on the property or at
the entrance to the building, reasonably likely to come to the
attention of intruders, indicating that entry is forbidden;
(D) the placement of identifying purple paint
marks on trees or posts on the property, provided that the marks
are:
(i) vertical lines of not less than eight
inches in length and not less than one inch in width;
(ii) placed so that the bottom of the mark
is not less than three feet from the ground or more than five feet
from the ground; and
(iii) placed at locations that are readily
visible to any person approaching the property and no more than:
(a) 100 feet apart on forest land; or
(b) 1,000 feet apart on land other
than forest land; or
(E) the visible presence on the property of a
crop grown for human consumption that is under cultivation, in the
process of being harvested, or marketable if harvested at the time
of entry.

Rifleman is at it again...I always wonder why people bother with all the hassle of painting posts or trees. Texas is a private property state. If it's fenced and you don't have permission to be on the property, you're trespassing, period. No need to mark YOUR land with purple paint. Besides, it denigrates the beauty of a place...Unless you're a Tarleton alum.

i give up. what does it mean???

I thought it meant only hunt here at night

That's not your usual bazooka Mr. Jones. How many pigs can you kill at one time with that?
That looks like the land around lake Meredith BTW

It means archery only, wear camo and keep hidden. ???

you'd be surprised...



it all depends on where you hunt!



(just kidding )

They'd rather hang themself than get shot by you!

what a waste of time & money.

My girlfriend, an Attorney, has a funny story about this I don't have time tell right now. The punch line is... a court order signed by a Judge trumps all the purple paint in the world.

congratulations on making it this far....

The person who owns this property's favorite color is purple and he picks a mean banjo...C'mon in.

it all depends on where you hunt!

Looks like Matador to me

Doesn't mean anything if:
1. you're color-blind
2. a poacher
3. an illegal
4. it's dark and can't see it

But normally means PRIVATE PROPERTY - NO TRESSPASSING

I agree, but I had a county commissioner and a sheriff's deputy tell me they didn't know what it meant.

Means trophy deer beyond this point. Lol

Barney wuz here

My thoughts exactly! Dr Jones were you 15 in that pic?

Watch the tree close I bet it swings a different way

Don't get it. Need back story.

Ohhhhh ohhhhhh ohhhh theirrs a sale at lowes on paint, it also saves on metal.

Sounds like par for the course, especially for most government officials.

good guess... on the location that is. matador is a fun place to bow hunt.



i was 50 then. but alas the years have not been kind. too many all nighters have taken their toll. now i just ride around and shoot out the window. prefer to let my equipment do all the work.

It means "Do Not Cross," and it works both ways. You don't cross mine and I don't cross yours. Unlike signs that are generally one-way. Once you apply purple paint to your fence posts, it applies to you as well as your neighbor and he can use it against you as well as you can against him. Doesn't matter who applied the paint.

Djones is such a card. Yes Rick, he's elusive. I believe the law has been notified. He needs to watch his step in Lubbock county.....Just sayin'.

OMG...This is how legends are born....I'm actually at a loss for words.

this, if they want on your land this paint, lock, gate, fence is not going to stop a poacher.

Its a universal color for no trespassing and if you look it up (game warden showed me) it is an actual law that
you should know. We paint stacks of rocks purple everywhere we cant drive a T post and a sign into or hang up a sign.
Also told me it needs to be posted every 500 feet for it to be legal binding and the poachers need to be caught on premises
for anything to be really done. Sad- but true.

Every 100 feet in the woods and every 1000 feet pasture. Mark the entrance as well.

I'd like to think it might help in court if a trespasser is injured on my property and tries to sue me. My property is properly posted and they didn't have permisson to be there.

I thought it meant this is where I'm gonna bury your [censored] when I catch you.

No Horned Frogs love here?

If you do have purple paint out there, and appear in court one day because you happen to be lucky enough to catch someone, you have a leg to stand on. If you do NOT have the purple paint out, you really don't.

Locks only keep honest people honest.

I have caught folks on my ranch before and when they tried to tell me they did not know it was private property, I just pointed at the signs, the purple markings, and the fact that if they did not know, that should be an indicator THEY did not own it.

The .41 mag on my hip went a long way to convincing them the right thing to do as well.

Russ

If that. Those eyebrows are neither bushy nor gray!

did not know about the purple paint. we have a place up in the mountains in olahoma and the tree trunks get painted with yellow to identify property lines, interesting. purple paint could be cheaper then signs

The purple paint laws might not apply in Oklahoma. Better check before you depend on it.

Yeah, they covered that in the Hunter Safety Course I took several years ago. I'm not sure I'd rely on that, though. Signs and barbed wire probably convey that message a lot better. If the folks are dishonest, there's probably nothing that will keep them out…