I have several pictures of a woman putzing around on a property that only I have permission to be on at 9 and 11 am back to back days 
the landowner, who is 97, cannot identify this woman nor can another neihborr!! How do I get the message across that she doesn’t have a right to be on the property??
Hide your truck somewhere an wait for her . Approach her an ask who the land owner is an how she got permission . Take her name . If no permission call the law .
put a sign up at her point of entry saying trespassers smile your on camera! 
Here are the pictures Do you think she’s trying to disguise herself??
I think she is . She knows your camera is there
She is obviously a local. Do you live in a small town? If so, post a pic/reward for her identity in the grocery store bulletin board. I’d put it on craig’s list too. 
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She is obviously a local. Do you live in a small town? If so, post a pic/reward for her identity in the grocery store bulletin board. I’d put it on craig’s list too.
Haha unfortunately no. I think i’ll make a sign and tack it to the tree, while moving the camera
Set a snare
Didn’t you have something weird like this last year too?
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Didn’t you have something weird like this last year too?
I get a clown or two about once a year But usually once i confront them, they don’t come back…I got angry with 2 guys two years ago because they hunting. Turns out that they gained permission back in the ’80s and never got re-permission…They never came back. The problem with 2 of my spots is that the landowners let a few of their neighbors walk and cut wood on their properties. So i’m guessing that some people get wind that they’re also allowed to walk on these properties. Planning on going to this spot tomorrow morning to see if she comes back 
Kill her with kindness, no use getting her worked up and have her turn you in as some crazy whack bag.
Hide in a gorilla costume and wait….
I would guess that it is someone local and out for a morning walk. I have often mentioned here that our one property has tons of trespassing issues. This is a piece that is a couple miles from town, and there is a small older sub development out there in which people (from what I can determine) truly feel they have a right to access. The houses are there solely because this ~90 acres of old growth is there. Its amazing the right people think they have to something just because THEY live by it and THEY do not regularly see someone around it. Many of these people we know, and we often make suggestions to them when we see them around town that so many people are in and out and caught on camera. However, this tactic only keeps them out for about a year I have realized, and then they are back walking dogs etc. If she’s there regularly I would bet a small sign right where she is walking would remind her that she is in the wrong; unless she’s a meth-head (serious, we have alot of them in the country here and often they trespass to cook or stash/steal anhydrous for cooking). But I bet a non confrontational sign and then over doing the no trespassing signs next year (also leaving your vehicle in a more noticeable place when you hunt and check cams) will help. Just my 2 scents
To me it looks like a tree hugger and guessing she is out for her morning nature walk. She also knows that by walking thru and area where you hunt continously that she potentially will be saving a deers life.
I think there’s a danger of reading to much into this and over-reacting. Which risks creating bad feelings, obviously benefitting no one. Since you don’t own the land and I’m assuming you don’t want to risk creating bad feelings in the community, I’d go with a softly-softly approach.
Usually a situation like this is down to the fact that the tresspasser sees “no harm done” in walking down a trail and they think no more of it. A simple change that makes her aware that she shouldn’t be there is all that’s required.
I would put up signs along the trail she is using stating “Private Property”. Don’t affiliate it with hunting and don’t identify yourself or do anything that makes her know she is the target.
My feeling is that if you put up 3-4 signs along the trail, you won’t see her again. Problem solved with minimal risk. Don’t use an elephant gun to swat a fly.
Grouse
Get to the spot extra early and pour a large amount of doe in heat scent at the area where she’s been entering…let her create some fresh scent trails for you.
Get in your tree and wait for Mr Mossyhorn to come sniffin’…
My sign was going to say something like this,
“To the woman with grey hair,
You do not have permission from the landowner to be on this property. I have several pictures of you, so please leave the property immediately”
looks to me just someone out for a walk.. more than likly she has no clue she may be disturbing your obsession with deer..
the sign on the tree idea sounds like a good aproach for now..
hope everything works out.. not realy a good time of year to have someone farting around your hunting area!
good luck
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looks to me just someone out for a walk.. more than likly she has no clue she may be disturbing your obsession with deer..
the sign on the tree idea sounds like a good aproach for now..
hope everything works out.. not realy a good time of year to have someone farting around your hunting area!
good luck
Exactly!!
Bad idea.
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My sign was going to say something like this,
“To the woman with grey hair,
You do not have permission from the landowner to be on this property. I have several pictures of you, so please leave the property immediately”
Good idea.
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I think there’s a danger of reading to much into this and over-reacting. Which risks creating bad feelings, obviously benefitting no one. Since you don’t own the land and I’m assuming you don’t want to risk creating bad feelings in the community, I’d go with a softly-softly approach.
Usually a situation like this is down to the fact that the tresspasser sees “no harm done” in walking down a trail and they think no more of it. A simple change that makes her aware that she shouldn’t be there is all that’s required.
I would put up signs along the trail she is using stating “Private Property”. Don’t affiliate it with hunting and don’t identify yourself or do anything that makes her know she is the target.
My feeling is that if you put up 3-4 signs along the trail, you won’t see her again. Problem solved with minimal risk. Don’t use an elephant gun to swat a fly.
Grouse
I’m afraid I disagree with most on here, make an example out of her. In my experience it seems like the more civil and discrete I was the more people didn’t care about trespassing or getting caught because they knew nothing more than a talking to would come of it. Once word gets out that you are playing hardball and will prosecute that is when people will think twice before crossing lines. I also don’t buy into she doesn’t know shes doing anything wrong. Since when do people have to be told not to break the law, do I have to hang a sign on my house saying do not steal my stuff, why do I have to hang a sign saying no trespassing. Anyone should know that you cannot just wander anywhere you like without permission. It takes a lot of $, time and effort to manage our land and it is pure disrespect for an outsider to completely ignore that. I may sound a little bitter because I am over previous situations I’ve had so just my 2 cents worth.
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Good idea.
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I think there’s a danger of reading to much into this and over-reacting. Which risks creating bad feelings, obviously benefitting no one. Since you don’t own the land and I’m assuming you don’t want to risk creating bad feelings in the community, I’d go with a softly-softly approach.
Usually a situation like this is down to the fact that the tresspasser sees “no harm done” in walking down a trail and they think no more of it. A simple change that makes her aware that she shouldn’t be there is all that’s required.
I would put up signs along the trail she is using stating “Private Property”. Don’t affiliate it with hunting and don’t identify yourself or do anything that makes her know she is the target.
My feeling is that if you put up 3-4 signs along the trail, you won’t see her again. Problem solved with minimal risk. Don’t use an elephant gun to swat a fly.
Grouse
I also agree. It’s not that big of a deal. I’m sure she has no idea she’s being a problem.
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