One of my patients had both legs basically blown off in the military, so he hunts deer from an automobile routinely. He had to go through lots of bureaucracy to get 'permission from the King' to do so. He only does it on relative's farmland (kinda hard to get an automobile into the woods), and of course has to cell-phone someone to come out and do the dragging and field dressing and so on. He says the biggest problem is that he'll get all set up and see some deer heading his way,
then a game warden will come up and spook the deer and 'check him out'. Once he shows them his 'papers' they'll leave, but often the deer don't come back. He's tried calling to let them know in advance where he's going to hunt, so if anyone driving by sees/reports him, they don't come out, but too many layers of people to go through for that to work well, so he just has the relative who does the farming leave a couple strips of un-combined corn he can park behind. That works best.
His next 'hurdle' is his kid wants to hunt
with him, but I guess there's some legal
who-ho about that, and he's getting conflicting answers about whether it's "ok". Seems kind of silly, but I guess the kid can't even be
with him without being accused of "hunting from a vehicle without proven disability". He can use a separate stand/blind, but he's only 12 or so, and would like to be
with his dad, not someplace else, plus if he even comes back to the vehicle and gets in it when it's time to go home or eat some lunch, he 'could be construed' as hunting from it.
It's a classic example of why some of us Libertarian-types think even well-intended laws sometimes are stupid and even wrong. The things that are 'bad' about road-hunting could all be addressed without messing with this guy's already-difficult attempts to just hunt deer with his kid.
I do agree that all hunting should be ethical/humane, should obey laws designed to limit game population destruction during breeding season, etc., and should be safely done. I also think trespassing on someone else's property, even 'farmland', is not much different from walking in their house uninvited if the door is unlocked - maybe a matter of degree, but not of substance. We have the type of 'road hunters' Pitchy is referring to, and we routinely report them - what they are doing is far worse than just being 'lazy' or 'nonsportsmanlike', but is dangerous and wrong. Throw the book at them!
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On a funnier note, when I was a kid, one nearby farmer hated trespassers, poachers, vandals, & thiefs so much that he'd use his front-end loader to turn their vehicles upside-down.
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Good thing the sheriff liked him!
Then there was the other neighbor who'd just
set fire to any vehicle that was on his property more than once.
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He eventually got in trouble for that.
The worst thing 'we' (I was a grade-schooler at the time) ever did was when a repeat-offender who said he had 'sort of accidentally' cut the lock on a gate (for the third time), and sort-of accidentally stolen some tools off a tractor, and we think sort-of accidentally had vandalized a combine, we sort-of accidentally bumped the brake-release on his car. . .
did I mention he'd parked on a part of our field that overlooked the river. . .
Ahh the good-old-days...
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