Trespassers

[Cross-7]

Someone, hunters I assume came on to my place and opened 2 gates allowing cattle to get in the wrong pastures.
I had similar incidents the last two years starting with dove season and suspected I had waterfowl hunters but I never actually saw them.

Is there an inexpensive way to set up security cameras other than game cameras?
Another problem is I’m not sure where they are coming in at.
The gates are locked so they are coming in on foot.
I don’t think they have taken anything or caused much harm other than leaving the gates open but I’d like to catch whoever it is, may just be kids

 

[Kingfisher]

You can get cameras today that are capable of forwarding real time to your phone. Then you call GW to go get em if your not close by.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Are they cutting the locks? We sometimes lock interior gates to prevent mishaps.

 

[littletom]

Put a sign up that says trail camera watching your ass. Even if you don't have one up this seems to really help. Take it farther i will use your photo to track you down and beat your ass.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Folks never cease to amaze me. If I were going to trespass I would go above and beyond to cover my tracks so no one would suspect anything. Most trespassers make it blatantly obvious that they have no regard for another persons property. I guess if their brain worked like mine then they wouldn’t be trespassing to begin with. I can’t relate to that mindset.

 

[Cross-7]

I may just put up a game camera where I where I suspect they’d come across

 

[Caustic Burno]

I may just put up a game camera where I where I suspect they’d come across

They are very effective and cheap IMO.
I even have signs of camera surveillance and they still trespass at times. It has slowed way down since the GW tuned a few up. My problem is hog hunters, I would rather have the hog.

 

[JMJ Farms]

I may just put up a game camera where I where I suspect they’d come across

They are very effective and cheap IMO.
I even have signs of camera surveillance and they still trespass at times. It has slowed way down since the GW tuned a few up. My problem is hog hunters, I would rather have the hog.

Very reason I quit hog hunting. (With dogs). We always wound up somewhere we weren’t supposed to be. Had numerous conflicts in more recent years. You can’t control where the dogs go so I decided I would control the only thing I could, which was not turning them out. We could turn out on a 1000 acre tract and wind up bayed up on the adjoining land owners 2 acres. Murphy’s Law I guess.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I never minded if they hunted JMJ as long as they were respectful. Your 100% right you can’t control where the hog runs. There is nothing I love more than deer hunting with the dogs. That day has come and gone as well. I had two rules let me know when you came on the place and use a gate.
They couldn’t do that my neighbors and I all don’t allow it anymore.
It is more of a societal thing today.

 

[herofan]

Folks never cease to amaze me. If I were going to trespass I would go above and beyond to cover my tracks so no one would suspect anything. Most trespassers make it blatantly obvious that they have no regard for another persons property. I guess if their brain worked like mine then they wouldn’t be trespassing to begin with. I can’t relate to that mindset.

Same here. I can’t understand people who leave gates and barn doors open. That’s crazy.

My dad said when he was a kid, it was no big deal to occasionally find your neighbor on your land; sometimes people just liked to go out walking. Back then, everybody knew everybody, and they respected your land, but not anymore.

 

[Bright Raven]

Folks never cease to amaze me. If I were going to trespass I would go above and beyond to cover my tracks so no one would suspect anything. Most trespassers make it blatantly obvious that they have no regard for another persons property. I guess if their brain worked like mine then they wouldn’t be trespassing to begin with. I can’t relate to that mindset.

Mike

Maybe a lot of trespassers do cover all evidence of their activities, thus, you only see the evidence of the ones that don't have good "criminal skills". ;-)

I wonder about the mindset of a trespasser. It is an odd profile. Does the thrill of the hunt mean enough to them that they will commit a crime? And oftentimes with their kids along, they expose their children to that kind of practice. I have ran into a few. They seem to have a sense that they are entitled to the right to hunt!!! A guy who lives a mile from me is a retired Highway engineer. He is retired and bought the old family farm of about 300 acres. It was a popular place for coon and deer hunting. He described a couple of dangerous run-ins with hunters. Mostly coon hunters. On one occasion, a couple of guys came into his yard to get their dog. He confronted them armed. It got to the stage where they were exchanging threats.

You made a good point about the dogs. Once you turn a pack of Black and Tan coonhounds out they go where the coon goes and they don't read the Posted Signs.

 

[littletom]

This a good one came to mind. Last winter i was at one farm working on a water line. I keep hearing a 22 go off one the back side. Few moments later here comes a tahoe across middle of field. I meet them middle of field ask what the hell are you doing? Teaching my boys to shoot out missletoe. I tell them take your kids somewhere less to teach to trespass and steal. Mom wanted to crawl under seat poor thing.

 

[Bright Raven]

This a good one came to mind. Last winter i was at one farm working on a water line. I keep hearing a 22 go off one the back side. Few moments later here comes a tahoe across middle of field. I meet them middle of field ask what the be nice are you doing? Teaching my boys to shoot out missletoe. I tell them take your kids somewhere less to teach to trespass and steal. Mom wanted to crawl under seat poor thing.

That brings back memories. We would collect Mistletoe by shooting it out of the tree. That was almost 60 years ago.

 

[True Grit Farms]

I really don't mind if folks coon hunt our property, they just need to ask first, leave the property like they found it and don't coon hunt during deer season. Last year some coon hunters that I let hunt, turned out across the road from us and ended up calling me so they could get their dogs back. That was while I had a group of paying deer hunters in camp planning to deer hunt the same property in the morning. Cameras definitely help to keep people honest.

 

[Brute 23]

There are some great trail cameras out there now. They are small, take excellent pics, and have IR so there is no flash for them to see at night. I probably have a dozen of the small Browning cams out. They run about $150 or so. I keep them on feeders and some of the main roads to see who comes in and out of the property. Our biggest issues come from the people servicing the utility ROWs. At least criminals try to hide and not be seen. These guys run around doing what ever they want daring you to do some thing to them.

 

[greybeard]

Game cams are among the first things stolen by the dopeheads around here.
Dunno how they find them so easily, but they have an eye for 'em.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Game cams are among the first things stolen by the dopeheads around here.
Dunno how they find them so easily, but they have an eye for 'em.

Doesn’t matter with the new ones your picture has already been sent.
I was talking with the manager of the local feed store yesterday. He said before the cellular cameras he could count on selling half dozen deer feeders opening week due to theft.

 

[True Grit Farms]

Amazon sells good game camera's for less than $70. If a camera gets stolen you know that you have a problem. I usually set surveillance cameras 15' off the ground at a 45 degree angle to the target.