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Originally Posted by petey
As the story goes, the said property owner saw the hunters on his land, went down to kick them off. He stated it was his land and to get off and the hunters (2) said he doesn't know his property very well and that they were not on his land, that his boundary was close, but they were not on his land. The said landowner then went back to his house and got an "assult" weapon (I've heard fully auto AK of which apparently wasn't registered..or of a kind that was a federal offense) and proceded to fire upon the hunters striking one. The hunters fired in return killing the land owner.
Given the landowner's past convictions, and from what the locals say, I'd say this story is more true than what the media printed...which wasn't much at all. Fact is, the landowner fired first since he was shot in the head. Can't do much shooting after that happens.
We have quite a few nut jobs around here that have the attitude of shoot first ask questions later if you even step on their property. I have one that lives not 2 miles from my house. He's been known to shoot holes in vehicles parked along the road near his property, slash tires and shoot at them just because. ILike I said, I'm all for protecting one's property, but within the laws. Some people just need a shrink...from what I'm told this landowner was one of them.
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I've hunted with people that have personally confronted trespassers that were hunting their property. If it were me, I wouldn't be doing it. I'd call 911 and leave it at that. Going out to confront somebody I don't know, who is carrying a gun, just sounds like a bad idea all the way around. Law enforcement is trained to handle this stuff, and people probably react better to an LEO in uniform with a gun drawn on them versus me in jeans and a sweater carrying a shotgun.
Several years ago, I was setting up decoys in a field and another group of hunters had planned to hunt the field that morning. The first guy that arrived called his buddy when he saw me in the field and his buddy told him to get out his shotgun and come down and "talk" to me about what was going on. They actually thought I was the guy that stole their decoys the year before. Anyway, how receptive would I have been to somebody approaching me with a shotgun in their hand? Luckily, the guy didn't take that approach, we talked the situation over, got the farm owner's grandson involved, and we both ended up hunting the same blind together that day and having a great time.