Apparently the dirty SOB's are out in force. I found a poached deer in one of my cut corn fields today, head chopped off and caped out. Property is fenced and locked gates. They shot it from the road and walked over in the field and took the goods. Called local warden, made a report...big whoop. Heaven help the dirty SOB I catch in person in an act like this. Law enforcement won't have much left to prosecute. I've been so mad all evening I could literally pee fire....grrr.
No, I have all the cameras well away from the gravel roads. Landlord said we're getting more cameras and using them for security though. He was about as happy as I was to hear about it. Poaching deer from the road out on private property is about the lowest e**ing thing I can think of. ANyone that does that sort of thing is a worm.
I'm guessing so, not much left to go by but it had a rib busted off even like a double lung shot and one front leg was gone.
I know dnr has some fake deer that they set up stings for poachers. I don't know how you would get something like that set up? Might be worth asking if the property owner would go along. Sounds like he would. Just an idea. Sorry to hear about this. Don't understand people and never will understand everyone. Most people are good and a few bad ones make things hard.
sorry about this man i know the feeling....i've had gates busted down, fences cut, and deer and hog carcasses dumbed on our 4 wheeler trails.
Yeah the warden was going to talk to the landowner about setting up a sting decoy, don't know if it's happening or not.
Don't let them take you to their level. Scum of the earth or not they're not taking your deer. Do what you can to protect your property and possibly find out who, but don't take it the extra yard if given the chance.
I was bow hunting in a stand set at the edge of that corn field a few evenings ago. From what I can tell they would have been shooting directly at that stand. We're doing more with cameras and signs and a decoy is probably going to be involved at some point. I didn't get nearly all the screens planted I intended to this year and this field is one of them that needs it the worst. Might know that one of my biggest regrets of the seaon would be the one that really bit me hardest in the butt.
My son in law has a 300 acre farm south of Manhatton and finds at least one a year caped out on his place. We spent 2009 and 2010 out there and at first I could not figure out why the deer population had declined so much since we had lived there in the early to mid 90's. Did not take long to understand why after season opend, I had never seen so many road hunters in my life, they were so bad a deer could not get accross the road in the evening. Hell it's not just Kansas either. Last year in Kentucky we were hunting a buck that had 14" G2's, week befor rifle season opened I know at least 3 deer were shot with rifles around me, one from an ATV and 2 from trucks or cars. Each time you hear a shot suck meat you cant help but think, was that the deer I'm hunting, am I wasting my time?
Road hunting is horrid here too. Our rifle season starts this Friday. The duck hunters are still in full force. Tonight as Britney and I were bow hunting... all we heard were shotguns going off. About 15 minutes before quitting time someone rapid fired 5 times. Weren't no shotgun !! They can only shoot 4 times legally with one in the chamber and 3 in the tube. After listening to the duck hunters shoot all afternoon... the 5 shots definitely had the sound of a high power. It kind of pisses you off that they are up to no good and probably poaching but what really gets me is the thought of the bastards accidently shooting one of us especially Britney. It kind of scares me as we hunt from the ground and they are just way too many roads here... not that they even need a road to drive on. I hate them !!! Tim
Fact of life in my area too. I normally hunt in a bow only zone but that seems to only apply to the law abiding citizens.
Around this part of the state I don't see it as bad. In the NE part of the state I hate to even go set in the stand during rifle season. It is hard to fight back when all you have is a bow. There was a thread earlier on about deer drives. These are the type of drives I think of when that word is mentioned. They drive around all day and find a ditch btw 2 gravel roads. Drop a guy off at one end, then the rest of them drive around to the other side while the single guy shoves them out of the ditch. Then the gun battle is on. NO, they don't have permission to be on the property. If that don't work they just drive around ALL day. I HATE ROAD HUNTERS!!!
In Vermont they use mechanicle deer with cameras in the eye to catch people like that. I would check if you can put one on your land.
I remember a few years back when I was stationed at Campbell, myself and one of the NCO's were going out to the training areas to scout out our site for the upcoming Spur Ride and on the way saw two deer laying beside the road. We hopped out to check it out, a small 2x2 buck and a young doe that had both been poached. Whoever did it simply shot them, cut the backstraps out then dumped both of them on the side of the road. We called the post game warden out and after checking it out, they had both been shot, cut and dumped within the last 2 hours so we ended up taking both of them back to his place and cleaning/butchering them. No point in letting the meat go to waste and we fed the whole Troop with it, but what kind of dirtbag drops a deer and cuts out the backstrap and leaves it? Some ****ty people out there.
I'm thankful I haven't experienced that type of crap in my area. I found one up north at my wife's grandparents farm about 10 years back. That deer had clearly been road poached and they didn't even bother to get any part of it. Just shot it and left it lay. There are a lot of low life scum bags out there.
That's sucks man. F---em. Their are A-holes everywhere, that's why we have to have car alarms and lock up our homes. Don't let mess with you head though. Enjoy the hunts.
