Fortunately this law works in my favor. I wouldn't 100 percent agree with it, however I'm not sure why people get so mad the moment you can't get access to a place to hunt. If they were to reverse the law and allow people to cross tracks, you might see even more trespassing than before. IMHO.
I'll do what I want! I remember the good ol days rabbit hunting the tracks. Man we killed alot of rabbits.
Durkin is so anti- Walker I bet he sleeps with a "Recall Walker" sheet set. The law is stupid but really not enforceable in many of the hunting situations you'll find yourself in. The law was written that way to stop law suits against the rail road companies for stupid people jumping the tracks when a train is coming, that's it! The more stuff I read by good ole Patrick the less I like him he has a serious grudge against Walker and it shows in all his writings. I bet he has a family member that was affected by Act 10 or he has strong union ties in the state. The last Governor was a POS and only lined his pockets while Walker like him or not actually is trying to right some of the time. With that said I liked Walker at first but he really showed his true colors with the Hard Rock Casino and screwed the taxpayers in the end.
Seriously, how many hunters have RR tracks stopping them from accessing hunting ground? How many hunters even have RR tracks anywhere near where they hunt? Please!!
In the North central part of WI there are a lot of railroad tracks that run through large tracks public land. The gun hunters use the tracks for driving deer so I think the number is a little higher then you think.
This a great story about how sportsmen get the short stick again regarding access to state hunting land. I'd LOVE to see a story about how Illinois screws its sportsmen by providing very minimal public land hunting opportunities for hunters. I think Illinois is quite a bit worse than Wisconsin, though that's just my opinion.
There are thousands of acres of land by the Mississippi River on the whole west side of the state that this cuts access to. Around my area, the railroad has hired people to sit along the tracks and ticket fisherman from going across. This is a HUGE issue...
Well I work for the RR as a Maintenance Welder, and I do have to say, I don't know your track conditions (speeds, curves, ballast, or vegetation) but I do have something to say about it. Have you ever seen a sign that is posted at every single railroad crossing? It reads "private property, trespassers will be prosecuted" or something along those lines. They're most usually put they're for the off chance that some idiot were to lay down on the tracks and get killed, or badly injured and try to sue the railroad company. Just like McDonald's puts the "caution hot" label on a cup of coffee. It's just their for protection of the company. Just my 0.02 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Exactly! Gun hunting is not hunting to me. Granted I still go because its with family etc. But I could care less if they took gun hunting away. If you can shoot a gun half way decent then your set. I always laugh when I hear someone talk how they got a big buck during gun season and then they tell me how they were sitting up in a nice box stand that has a heater, a stove, small fridge, etc. and they shot the buck that was standing out there at 250+ yards. REALLY! that's not hunting!
I have yet to see 1 piece of land that cannot be accessed because of RR tracks. Sure, the access might not be as easy as it would be by crossing the tracks, but there is always another route. I think it would be better to alter the laws so people can cross the tracks at their own risk, but this is really crying because somebody doesn't want to do the work to find an alternate access route.
Dam guys no company entity of any kind should be allowed to block a legal citizen of the USA from crossing a railroad track to access state lands period.
By law the railroad tracks are private property. So it really no different than if a private driveway split two pieces of public land. Where is there a piece of state land that cannot be accessed because of a railroad track?
