Did you ever wonder why farmers close their land to hunters?

Several years ago I had a cow get shot in the pasture by my house. It is too bad one person can spoil it for a lot of others.

My family has a hunting camp consisting of about 10 acres bordering state land.

Twice so far this year, I have caught other boneheads who can't read or have zero sense of direction hunting illegally on the property. One gent went so far as to vehemently insist that is was he who owned the land, and I had better leave. Nevertheless, he saw it my way as soon as I showed him the border he passed with about 30 clearly posted "No Trespassing" signs within sight.

The biggest issues I have are people who are ignorant of safety rules, people who really have no legitimate business being in the woods with a loaded firearm (or any sharp object for that matter), people who abuse the privileges granted, (You may hunt the area, but don't shoot up my trees), people who fail to respect the animals (shooting between 2 trees after seeing a shadow move), and people who dump carcasses/gutpiles near the cabin.

I hunt myself, and have passed up a few deer this season for a variety of reasons, mostly because of poor probability shots or range issues, and always respect where I am, what I shoot at, the animals, and the other critters/people/foliage/whatever is there.

I do my absolute best to take nothing but the animals I shoot, take only clean shots with high kill probability, leave nothing but drag marks and footprints. If I field dress an animal, I take time to bury the gutpile, and make it look like I was never there.

I'm very sorry that the farmer had an animal injured by someone stupid.

I feel bad for both the farmer and the animal.

Someone needs to go cut that idiot's bowstring for him, and snap his or her arrows, and deliver a swift kick in the seat of the pants and a boot to the head.

As a small farmer have chased hunters engaging in repeated shots and watched them throwing sticks and shooting,which they denied. Don't come back but no posting as a result. Can't control what some hunters do. These boys asked permission and we talked and target practice was given a no. So?

We just started doing hunting leases on the ranch but not near the main houses and pastures out away from the cattle and people. We even started letting some people fish on the lakes and rivers but no hunting what so ever in these areas.

that is exactly why, and most close the land off before anything happens.

if they're raising cattle or other livestock, they don't want stray bullets to injure them and possibly kill them, making the farmer either having to nurse the animal back to health or pu it down, either ways not a nice thing for the farmer to have to do.

if they're only raising crops, it might be the fact that they like the animals on their land, watching them, and they don't want them to be killed or are afraid a stray bullet might hit their house or themselves and their family.

If they don't want you to hunt on their land, they don't need a reason, it's theirs, not yours or public land, you shouldn't even be complaining about this, how would you like it if people constantly bugged you to use your land for something you don't approve of? you wouldn't like it and they don't either, no is no, they don'tt need an excuse.

Because like someone else said, if you give an idiot a gun he is then an idiot with a gun. A person with manners and respect without a gun, will have respect with a gun. Bow, arrow, blowgun, trap, whatever. Owning a gun is a right, but hunting on someone elses land is a privilege. So the idiots ruin it for the rest of us.

Hunters get more money for damaged crops if they allow hunters on there land. The guy who shot the steer should be charged accordingly, Pretty ridiculous.

No, these are some other reasons; " Littering, Failure to ask Permission to Hunt, Shooting to close to occupied buildings while people or animals are inside, Driving in their Fields, Blocking gates, or access roads on their property with your vehicle etc...*

That's just ignorance in action on somebody's part. I wouldn't be completely surprised if the wayward archer involved was a PETA slob trying to spur precisely this type of reaction.

Because of liability and it's their land and I wouldn't want some jackass hunting on my land and have an accident and scream lawsuit cuz his buddy went all dick cheney on his @ss. Or if he simply got hurt etc.