Graphic Queen > writes:
> I think you have a narrow view of people's private property rights. It
> the person who owns said land to decide whether to allow any hunting.
> We used to own over 100 acres in Missouri and we allowed friends to
> hunt and we hunted but we had to constantly patrol the acreage because
> of people who thought they had some sort of right to hunt wherever
> they chose no matter if it was private property or not.

The standards vary from area to area... In New Hampshire, you have the
de facto right (hundreds of years of common law) to hike, fish, and
hunt on private property unless it is properly posted, as long as you
are obeying other laws.

I own a patch of rural NH forest (with my house in it), and it's now
posted, ever since I had to talk to a hunter about his lack of common
sense (hunting too close to the house) and he responded with threats
about "having a bigger gun" than I did. Too bad, since most of the
hunters around here are reasonably responsible (and hunters I know
personally I still let hunt on and pass through the land). But when
someone threatens me with a weapon on my own land, I'd rather not have
deal with those issues any more. And I won't think about un-posting
the land, since the response of some of the local hunters is to get
****ed off and tear down the signs...

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Richard W Kaszeta

http://www.kaszeta.org/rich