It's Really a shame

[KevinN]

Long gone are the days you could pull up to someone's house with your dogs, ask permission and be running your dogs 10 minutes later. Heck, back in the day you didn't even need permission if you were from the area. The old folks all knew each other and if they heard dogs bayin they would just say "ol' so and so's boys must have em a nice one".
Now families don't stay in the country for generations. Someone dies, land gets split up and sold and all of the sudden there are city folk livin everywhere and they don't trust anyone. Course, that's expected. To many yahoos Drinkin beer and tearin stuff up, leavin gates open, just showing no respect.
I wish folks would have a little more trust, do just say no but give a person a chance. Then again, how many times will you get screwed before you decide to quit bending over.
It's just a shame!

[jakes]

Travis tritt said in a song " the back 40 was sold to make up for hard time and sold by the half acre lot over night. The houses went up and the trees were cut down and there goes the finest deer hunting around. Everyoneis locking there doors cause country ain't country no more. I find that true in most cases. People are lazy and want the quick dollar. They don't think about their children or morals. The almighty dollar has ruined us all. Nowdays people will sue over a spilt cup of coffee or if you fart near them lol. Heck if I owned a section of land I would be wary as well to the general public.

[boarsnesthogdogs]

as a fellow hunter i own lease and have permission to hunt several large properties, i see all the time on my own property where people have tresspased left dead game, and on and on and on we r the people that hold the neches river clean up every year, so yeah it gets under my skin to see people that ruin this great sport for others personally u dont know who u can trust anymore use to it was just brought up in you take nothing but your game, leave nothing but footprints bottom line is a few bad apples ruined it for all of us jmo

[athorn]

Why not show up at a land owner's house with a bucket of staples and a hammer and ask if you can maintain fence lines for a couple months while he determines if you are trustworthy or not.  I got permission to hunt the land next to mine by picking up trash along the road for about a year before asking if I could hunt out there.  People use to mow our pastures year round for the opportunity to hunt dove and quail during season.  It is easy and doesn't amount to a hill of beans to offer to do work if someone lets you hunt.  I've got plenty of people that offer that, but I've never had them show up and actually do anything.  The owners assume all responsibility and have no way of recouping any financial or material loss if you leave a gate open or your dog isn't livestock broke.  If and when you gain permission, continue to things that will keep you welcome.

[Bawl Mouth]

Why not show up at a land owner's house with a bucket of staples and a hammer and ask if you can maintain fence lines for a couple months while he determines if you are trustworthy or not.  I got permission to hunt the land next to mine by picking up trash along the road for about a year before asking if I could hunt out there.  People use to mow our pastures year round for the opportunity to hunt dove and quail during season.  It is easy and doesn't amount to a hill of beans to offer to do work if someone lets you hunt.  I've got plenty of people that offer that, but I've never had them show up and actually do anything.  The owners assume all responsibility and have no way of recouping any financial or material loss if you leave a gate open or your dog isn't livestock broke.  If and when you gain permission, continue to things that will keep you welcome.

That is the most sensible thing anyone has ever written on this site that I've read.

[R.ScHmIdT]

I bought land right out of high school and in the 5 years I've owned it we have had 2 ccouples both city folk move in and buy land buildinghhouses all around us. Good thing I bought all I could afford no neighbors for this guy.  As soon as this is paid for you bet you butt I'll be buying every piece of land for sale on my road till I go broke. 

[preacher1]

Pretty hard to get people to trust you when the world's eat up with people wanting to sue at the drop of a hat. Landowners are worried about liability. Had a guy tell me that after he was hurt on the job and the comp ran out, his lawyer told him if he could prove just 1 %  fault of the business owner that he could have a case. That's ridiculous to me but it leaves a a slim margin of error. If we get hurt on a guy's property, he is wide open and subject only to whether or not you decide to sue. Don't seem right but everybody today wants something for nothing. jmo

[NLAhoghounds]

my father owns 120 acres(which i am to inherit and the caretaker now if you will) of some nice hardwood bottoms. it has been in our family since his great grandfather bought it in the late 1800s and homesteded it. well we have always been nice and let a few people hunt it we knew and let people ride 4wheelers through just to have something to do since everything is fenced and gated up these days. so over the past 5 years or so i have had 3 deerstands stolen, a family friend that lives beside our property peppered in HIS driveway with squirrel shot from a trespasser (he yelled stop shooting this way you are hitting me and my house) and they cussed him. i had a guy i didnt even know bring in a deerstand and a feeder one season, so i finally found out who it was and got in touch with him and asked him to remove it nicely since he didnt ask in the first place, he said he would but told me if i dared touch his stuff he would come to my house and kick my a$$. And after someone tore my gate down going into the woods people started dumping trash down it, and after that got so bad i couldnt take it anymore i cut down a tree across the road so no one could go down there period. well i be darned if someone didnt go down there and cut the tree up and start dumping stuff again. there are to my knowledge after i looked yesterday, 4 matress and boxspring sets, 2 toilets, 3 couches, a love seat, about 15 computer monitors and i couldnot begin to tell you all the amounts of trashbags and miscalanious junk down there.i have even found about 5 dead bull dogs down there people just dump out that had been killed fighting. its people like that who ruin it for all of us that has respect for other peoples property and really apreciate it when someone gives you the opertunity to hunt it. i really feel for everyone of yall who just wont to do the right thing and ask to hunt and be respectful of someone elses property when its just as easy to slip in at night and them never know but they still wont let you. its a shame that these kind of people have ruined it for us.