Let me TRY to make this as short as possible.
First, to get what the this is about let me set the stage so to speak.
Back when I was working(all the time,like 60+ hrs a week)other guys in my Lab wanting deer days off etc.quite a few years I didn't get to do the hunting I wanted.I was being a (nice guy)letting quite a few people hunt on me.(like about 15)
Then all He## broke loose,people shooting (what I call fawns/shooting anything that moved)I wasn't there/I was exempt and I had work overload.Then I let (2 friends and 2 relatives)cut some firewood(two of them cut some of my standing cherry trees.
That was it(I said)--------Done,everybody (no hunting/hiking/shooting/wood cutting)no exceptions.
Some were pi##ed, so screw it,if they can't like me for me, not my land(don't need people like that anyway)
So had the whole place surveyed,video'd it being done,had special oil based paint applied to the line(which I keep updated)took special landmark readings that cannot be cut/moved etc.and buried certain special colored glass(cant be metal detected(items )all the same in the ground at certain hiiden distances from various landmarks/and boundry line with a GPS for my review if ever in question.Also put up new posters on treated plywood bases every 100ft(what a job)
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So, yesterday while in the Hemlocks on an upper ridge(about when that red squirrel was going nuts)I hear way down on the road
couple ATV's pull up.People talking,hard to tell if they are on my side of the road by a steep logroad going into my woods or across the large creek in a field not owned by me???
But,I hear someone saying(if you park it/park it in the woods????)
Then I hear let's test it(and someone shoots off 5 fast rds like from a semi-auto)
It almost sounded like a atv was starting to come up my logroad.(no one would have thought I was close enough to hear them in the middle of the mountain.
Don't know if you remember me saying last Friday night (before hunting season)at dark around 7pm/8pm I heard gunshots that (seemed)on me????????
So, as of today-----------------I have started a new thing this season.
Already did it once and will do it 4-5 times daily at different times.While I do have my gun/coat/nikons deer hunting is taking a back seat compared to a thorough constant quiet stalk operartion to secure my property.
If caught I will follow the rules as stated in the NYS Land Owner Rights and they will be held for the State Police and prosecuted.
So,will I get a deer???? My normal hunting method is to pick my spot(and be like a statue for however it takes)but because I have been gone away awhile(but still hunted etc.)now coming back------Their fun will end!
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Game on
Let me be clear,I am not saying that there could be a very select certain few that will be hunting with me,but that will be up to me!
And this year(don't know if that will happen)