Ron Moore
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: WV
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Lets face it guys, as long as we're alive on this earth, we're going to deal with these problems. I have hunted a piece of adjoining property where I live for over 20 years. The old man that owned it gave me written permission and when he passed away his wife kept up the deal as long as I would oversee the property. When she went into a long term care facility, it was in their will that the property would go to their two nephews because they had no children. The two nephews immediately had all 240 acres logged and then sold it. Well, I couldn't afford $300K cause I'm just a modest everyday working man and trying to get ready to retire. Anyhow, it was sold and immediately posted heavy. The man that bought it is trying to turn it into a deer management farm. In other words, he went to every neighboring house and farm and left posters to let the deer grow antlers. Now, I have no problem with that cause I usually do that as well. I abide by his wishes and do not hunt on his property besides, it would be pretty rough now that it has been logged pretty heavy. Luckily I have another probably 500 acres of adjoining property to hunt on and one tract belongs to a DNR officer who lives about a quarter mile down the road from me who BTW invited me to hunt on his property.
I want to give you an example of an incident that happened a few years back. Some friends of mine were coon hunting when their dogs got on another property. One of the guys knew this fellow that owned the property so they pulled across the road from his house and was going to go get permission to get their dogs. This gentleman came out of the house with a gun and shot into the air. My friend announced who he was the gentleman began yelling at them and telling them he was going to call the game warden and not to retrieve their dogs. My friend never gave him a chance, he went ahead and called the DNR. The DNR told him that they were going to dispatch the State Police because once a firearm is involved it is turned over to them. Long story short, the land owner went to jail and my friends were aloud to retrieve their hounds. Needless to say, the landowner was knocking on my friends door the next day begging him not to press charges, which he didn't, lesson learned! This is the way the law states it in WV, I'm sure each state differs. I have much land I have access to hunt but I do abide by the law. I have found little problems when asking permission to retrieve my hounds, so far. As far as hunting on Sundays, it would be nice because, I do still work and that one extra day would sure be nice. I do go to church every Sunday but see no harm in it as long as people abide by the law. We are always going to have agreements and disagreements as long as we live, it's all how we handle it. Remember, we can disagree without being disagreeable.
On a side note, if some folks on here would start punctuating their posts, we sure could understand them much better. It would be nice to know where one sentence stops and the other starts LOL! Not picking on any one person at all just the whole forum as a whole. I surely hope everyone is having as much fun as I am this kill season. Have a great day and happy hunting
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