duramax wrote:Ster wrote: The truth of the matter is that MS is just loaded with a bunch of outlaws that could care less about property ownership etc...
That's true, but you should come to north west Tennessee. I've never heard of more bold poachers than the locals of NW Tennessee. Stories of people getting tow trucks to pull down huge steel gates put up to keep poachers out. They simply don't care. I think it's just passed down from generations that there is no respect shown to land owners. I simply don't understand it.
Come to my farm if you want to see some crazy rampant trespassing. I run at least 1-2 people off one of our farms weekly. Yes, I said WEEKLY. Most of them are going out there to cheat on their spouses or do drugs or try to dump trash but I have caught about 10 different groups of rabbit hunters, three groups duck hunting (including a successful insurance salesman with kids and his buddy with kids who "had permission" from a landowner a mile and a half away), deer hunters, spotlighters, etc. it is like the Wild Wild West. I have literally been riding into the farm around 9:30 at night and watched muzzle flashes and heard the reports of a pistol being fired about 35 yards in front of me. I hit the gas thinking they might be shooting at me with full intentions of running the guy over if he pointed the weapon at me. He started trotting back to his vehicle so I slid to a stop and put the beam of a freshly charged streamlight in the guys face so he couldn't see the pistol I had drawn on him as he explained he was "testing out this here new pistol he just bought at the club" . I have had gates torn down at anther property, shops broken into, shops shot. It's ridiculous and truly pisses me off that people have so little respect for others property.
I say we go back to the monarchy laws governing royal forests..you get caught trespassing you get drawn and quartered!
