I have no problem with hunting; hunters on the other hand.....
We were setting monuments for a new conservation subdivision (an exception to subdivision statutes).
We had two projects in the same area, the one was completed and this one needed 5 monuments set with three of them up some large ridges and the PC was running out of time and sunlight. So my guy enters the gate and two hunters stop him asking what he's doing there cause they lease the hunting rights. They even threatened to turn him into our client. The very client asking us to do the work and authorized it to continue Tuesday after I gave them the estimate for the work. He didn't have time to deal with them and told them to go ahead and call, meanwhile I'm doing my job.
They wanted him to go with them to call since you have to drive up a county road to a high point a few miles away to get cell. He just laughed at them.
Not the first time hunting season (hunters) have impacted work, probably not the last. But every time it's really annoying.
Don't get me started.................... Blood pressure shot up ten points already.
I have this rather large ranch client. For some reason the owner leased hunting to a doctor. He became such a pest they finally kicked him off.
One day I'm locating some section corners, and some pivots for engineering design. One of the pivots is in a ready to cut alfalfa field with some rather large buck deer laying in the middle of the field. This truck comes screaming down a hill towards me with a guy frothing asking me how I dare enter the field. At first I was confused, then wondered who the heck this is, then he starts blathering on about scaring the deer and it clicked.
I told him if he ever sees me again to never talk to me. I think I noticed that truck a few times around hunting season but he stayed clear. I was pissed!!!!
New England rural culture has a more communal view towards hunting. You either allow it on your land, or you don't. These hunting leases and exclusive access for hunting are largely foreign concepts.
If I would have had my shotgun handy, I would have fired off enough shots to convince the deer to find some safer place to be. The look on the idiot's face would have been priceless. Much like the day I pulled out my rifle and homed in on the fellow's favorite bird dog that was 500 feet onto my property and the hunter was about 300 feet onto my property. "Please don't kill my dog" kept getting louder the longer I had had the rifle pointed at his dog. NEVER saw that hunter anywhere near any of my property again. I was mad enough to pull the trigger and he could tell that I was.
I think I'll keep my reactions a bit less violent, but I understand the urge. Then again, all my guns were lost in the boating accident.
<div>I completely agree with you there, at least in my part of northern NY most folks allow you to hunt their property (with permission of course). I hunt all over the neighboring properties where I reside with a couple exceptions. Those exceptions usually box themselves in, as they don't allow others to hunt on their properties and they are paid with mutual respect by not being allowed to hunt other neighboring land as well. In the many years that I've been hunting the big woods where I live, a knock on the door goes a long way, and 99% of the time permission is usually granted. When people don't want hunters on their land, respect those wishes and move on.
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They're are a fair amount of hunting leases by me as well, and I understand the exclusiveness of that. Not sure about the rest of the country? Most of the hunting clubs/leases here are always looking for members (hunter number have drastically declined here), you can probably join that lease and hunt it if you have a burning desire to do so.
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I am not anti-hunting. I simply do not allow it on my ground, with rare exception. The exceptions being young people I know well. If they bring friends along without my permission, they are contacted and the permission discontinued permanently.
Paying one party to hunt on their land does not extend to all nearby landowners' lands, as well. Here, it is easy to find the Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina vehicle plates. Those three states seem to provide the ^^^***(** every year who cannot understand the simple concept of only huntiing where they have been welcomed directly to do so. Rarely find other state vehicle plates on the transportation of those who behave themselves.
I'd be upset with my client if he didn't notify owners of a lease that I'd be onsite. It'd be like surveying a rental property and the owner didn't inform the renters. It doesn't give the lease holders the right to be jerks but imagine you rented a quiet cabin for a vacation then a contractor showed up and started regrading the driveway. Would you be happy about it?
It's a hunting lease, not a rental lease, these typically are only concerned with hunting rights. If they were renters then yes, I might be a bit upset depending on the situation.
But not for hunting, fishing, or even most mineral leases. Some people lease hay or other farming, but I always skirt any type of farming operation. It's up to the hunters to stay clear of ranching operations, not the other way around.
And crews are out there today flying a drone, that should really get them going.
