Why does he need 5 pages to know this ? Seems kinda standard . No fancy play here

Make "Active Bear Traps" signs and put them everywhere...maybe even have one or two bear traps close to where you know they frequent.

I think people are just ****ing around and coming up with silly solutions just to see if OP will do it.

It’s been my experience doing stuff with / to aggressive red necks w guns does not end well. Call the bleeping sheriff already .

Why would you not post your experiences doing stuff with/to aggressive rednecks not ending well!? That's some bad posting right there.

Yes, let's hear about your bad endings, please.

The signs would likely be quite counter-productive with these guys, perhaps even attracting more hunters. The traps are an intriguing idea, but undoubtedly illegal as being booby-traps.

Traps to dissuade trespassers committing illegal activities on private property are against the law?

I strongly suspect that putting down real traps would expose captain to significant civil liability at a minimum.

Captain,

I'm sure you know this already, but there is a significant safety issue here. Not only is this guy hunting on your land, you don't know exactly when he is hunting on your land, which means he or one of his drunko buddies could end up shooting you accidentally while you are walking your own property.

That seems like an unacceptable risk.

I think you should try and reach some sort of accommodation. Leave a note somewhere he will find it suggesting that (i) you are open to reaching some sort of accommodation, but (ii) you will have to involve the game warden or sheriff if you can't reach some sort of accommodation.

These country hunter types are used to doing work on their hunting land. If you need work done on your property, they might be willing to help in exchange for X number of days hunting on your property.

Generally, yes. Ones that cause no real injury, like pepper spray, might be a gray area. One that cause serious injury are usually specifically forbidden by statute and would expose you to clear civil liability if not criminal. I seem to remember a case where someone sabotaged the straps on a tree stand and had to pay for the resulting injuries.

There have been a number of prosecutions against people who rigged the windows of their homes with spring guns.

Katko v Briney is a staple of torts classes at every law school.

Sorry for the derail, but then how do people with real animal problems put out animal traps?

In general, you’d be fine to set traps for animals that you had a legitimate reason to trap like coyote traps around your chicken coops or some such, unless you knew that children regularly trespassed on your land which might require additional care. If you were in a dispute with hunters and put bear traps out, that wouldn’t fly. There is a certain amount of common sense — the court would try to determine if your intent was to trap animals or to harm trespassers.

Also, for the record, I’m not a lawyer — my wife is and I toyed with reading the law while she was in law school. Property and torts were my favorite subjects.

I thought this news story was relevant. No, these are not my poachers.

Missouri man must watch ‘Bambi’ monthly as part of poaching punishment, judge rules

How the **** have you not contacted the police yet?

Are you stretching this out for the sake of the thread or are you that ******ed?

Update?

OP got poached.

Pretty sure I got a picture of the poacher.

Was that bear on dmt?

God I love and hate Joe Rogan.

Nothing to report. Hunting season is over so there's no activity around. I kind of thought someone would come asking for their tree stands back but no one has.

So is it now duck season or wabbit season?

I like the episode with Godzilla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPFxBzlFe94