bad guy gets a warning

My father in law called and said they found out a guy has been hunting in my stand on private property and shot four deer from it. I have not been able to get out there yet this year but was hoping to do some late season bow hunting. My father in laws neighbor said they heard a shot on opening shotgun season and the deer jumped the fence and died in their yard. Thinking it was me he headed over to let me know were the doe was laying but when he got to my stand he saw a guy in camo without any orange and in a hurry to get out of there. They called the TIP line and a game warden showed up found were the guy torn down the fence to get his other deer out that he shot by bow and by asking around found out where the guy lived. The dnr checked his tags and found the other deer still in his garage and he had no tag for the doe he shot with the gun. After the no orange on and the no tag for the deer and trespassing the man got a warning ticket from the DNR
IT gets sure makes you mad when guys like this get away with these things

Are you saying that your father-in-law can’t turn in this to the sheriffs for tresspassing?

Boy that sounds like a big deterrent from doing that again.
No Fine
No loss of hunting privileges
No fixing the fence
and we wonder why people keeping poaching.

They said since my father in law did not have no trespassing signs every 100 feet they can’t do anything. My father in law at this point was asked what was stopping him from camping our in this guys front yard for a weekend. My thought is if you have are taken down a guys fence and hunting in camo during gun season you know your doing something wrong.

At least there was a warning given, everyday on the water there is poaching going on be it keeping fish over the slot, over limits,etc…most of know one and just turn our heads. Please MEAT HUNTERS give us a break………..

Yea, I’d be pissed too. But I would get those signs up pronto

The signs were up the next day and I took down my deer stands. I also cleaned up the popcans and other garbage the guy left.

Is this the guy that shot the record eight pointer? If not must be his brother. They are the same kind of guy and a warning isn’t going to do him any good.

As far as I know you don’t need signs anymore.

I’d get ahold of the officer’s boss and ream him a new one. That ain’t cool.

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I’d get ahold of the officer’s boss and ream him a new one. That ain’t cool.

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I agree. Don’t let them slide without an explanation to cover your thoughts and concerns.

WTF??? If I pulled a stunt like that I’d be in prison for 10 to life! It a shame that the wardens can’t keep up the hard [censored] attitudes they always seem to have when checking my license! If that were the case this guy wouldn’t be hunting for a while. C’mon wardens, take care of business and help those of that follow the rules enjoy the outdoors even more by not having to deal with all the poaching out there!!!!!!!

i would be calling a different warden and asking him to exsplain to you how you can shoot a deer without a liscense while trespasing, not wearing orange during a season it is required and then leave the deer lay to rot (want and waste)….. listen to his response then exsplain to him what happened and ask him why the warden in question still has a job…. have him look into it with there boss…. this pisses me off that a guy can get away with somthing so illegal! i am dumb founded by this!!

As a deterent from another post on this website: shoot shovel, shut up. Don’t you wish sometimes. I just found out this evening from my parents that someone has erected a permanent stand on our hunting land and we will need to deal with it this weekend. Any thoughts?

Seems to me an old fashioned kicking is in order. Just seems impossible to get away with this unless they didn’t have sufficient evidence to convict. Then I once again vote for old school.

wow that is amazing that he didnt get in trouble at all. and as long as i remeber that you dont have to have no trespassing signs up because its the hunters job to figure out where private property is and isnt.

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As a deterent from another post on this website: shoot shovel, shut up. Don’t you wish sometimes. I just found out this evening from my parents that someone has erected a permanent stand on our hunting land and we will need to deal with it this weekend. Any thoughts?

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Yeah, I think you just got a new deer stand, hope it was well placed for whoever uses it

Something definitely needs to be done about this. Hunting without orange, trespassing, and shooting more deer than what he has tags for. He deserves at least 3 tickets on this one. You do need to post your Wooded land in MN. There are a lot of County Courts that won’t prosecute if it is not posted the way it says in the Regulation book. Most times a warden won’t write a ticket for trespassing unless the land is properly posted or that person has been previously told to stay off your land. I believe agricultural land does not need to be posted but not certain on that. It is guys like this that give law abiding sportsmen a bad name, and make it hard for us to get permission to hunt on private property these days.

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They said since my father in law did not have no trespassing signs every 100 feet they can’t do anything.

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That just don’t make sence to me. What he is saying is that if a guy has a 1/4 section he already put up 2 miles of fence and he still needs to go out and buy 106 no trespassing signs to keep people from hunting on his property. Do you need to put one on your front door to keep them out of your house also.

I am not saying it is right, but that is the way it seems to be. A friend of mine is a Warden and he won’t write a ticket for trespassing if the land is not posted properly. If he writes the ticket and the person decides to fight it the judge will throw out the case if the land was not properly posted on all sides. That includes the road side and the back side of your property facing other private property as well. If it is fought he has to go to court and if it is just going to get thrown out anyway it is a waste of his time and tax payers money. It is not right. Almost anytime someone is trespassing they know damn well what they are doing is wrong. It is sad that our wardens have to fight our court systems as well as the criminals.

Using that philosophy, I have a couple state parks I’d like to hunt. They’re not posted either. Not to mention a nature preserve that I know that isn’t posted.

Give me a break.

I’m by no means taking the side of the poacher, but if I owned hunting land that I didn’t want anyone else to hunt, I would have more signs up than required. The cost of the signs is chump change compared to the investment you make in your hunting property. Even if the law says you don’t have to post your land.

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i am dumb founded by this!!

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I am too. One thing you can do is give this guy a letter stating that if he is caught on your land again he will be subject to criminal trespassing. That is a whole different ball game and the penalties are a lot stiffer. I still cannot understand how he can get away with too many deer and no orange on. That just makes no sense at all.