Yes! Great post! Exactly!
You do realize there is a large section of society that finds it revolting that you insist on making horses work for you.
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Fine. Let them. I don’t care.
I don’t want hunters around me…and if i can manage to find someone who does not hunt to sell to, i’ll be happier.
and LOL…if they find me reprehensible, they don’t have to move next door
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They may have been using drones to fly over and take pictures. That’s one of the latest things. The neurosurgeon that bought my dad’s place uses one to locate downed deer and scout game.
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I do expect to be judged by the worst of my kind. I always meet non-horse people who say oh, do you know so and so? She’s insane! Horse people are crazy! Most the time my answer is no, I do not know that person personally, but I’ve heard of her. Yes she might be nuts. We aren’t all like that.
I do expect for the worst of my sport to be held accountable by law, if possible, and certainly by the rest of us. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen recently, holding equestrians who’ve done bad things accountable has been quite the issue. But for the most part I think we’re a pretty judgey crowd.
I feel like hunters don’t hold each other accountable AT ALL. And the laws regarding hunting can be very particular, depending on what area you’re in, but aren’t well enforced.
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The hunters I know really do hate the bad hunters.
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yeah…every single one of them will all say the very same thing too.
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I apologize for the thread derailment. I hope you did get some good input on how to handle your situation, and I hope you end up with a solution you’re happy with.
I also realize I am not likely to change people’s minds about the existence of good hunters. Your experiences are your experience, they’ve informed your opinions and I understand that.
But I have to tilt at this particular windmill one more time:
The good hunters I know will kick out or refuse to hunt with someone who drinks while hunting, takes a cheap shot, doesn’t clean up after themselves, etc. Because their permission to hunt private land is precious to them and they’re not going to let some jerk endanger it. The private hunt club that uses the land I ride on is VERY strict and will boot someone in a minute. The haying crew that hunted the private farm where I worked was the same way, and they booted several guys for irresponsible behavior. In much the same way I will refuse to ride with someone who can’t control their horse, who rides without a helmet, is disrespectful to a landowner or is casual about randomly trespassing on private land. The best thing that ever happened to a farm where I worked where poaching was rampant and riding out was dangerous is that they gave permission to hunt to a good hunt club. Not only were they respectful, responsible and cooperative; they kept the jerks and the poachers out. Letting that hunt club in made the whole place safer to ride.
PS - A deer stand =/= a bait station. Not the same thing at all. A deer stand, among other things, is a safety measure. A shot from a raised position has a automatic backstop; a shot from the ground can travel much farther and is much more dangerous.
With this, I am going to quietly back out of the thread. Carry on.
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Few years ago, right before hunting season opened i toured our entire farm’s fenceline. I do this periodically looking for downed trees across fences, and i do it immediately before opening of each deer season. At one area where there was an OLD gate put up by the previous owner who was also a hunter and friend of the crazy man who lived on 50 acres along one property line…right AT that gate (cattle panel) …about 20 yds on his side was a camo’d stand on the ground. And on OUR SIDE!!! another 15 feet or so from the gate was a lot of fresh corn dropped littering the ground. I saw it and called the county agent who arrived on the scene wearing a bulletproof vest and advised me to stay back while he walked into the site. When he eventually got another position, he was replaced by a fellow, who lives nearby, whose father is the most renowned poacher in the county.
i’m telling you once again, for each and every good-‘hunter’ story you’ve got, i have two more.
and…killing animals for fun is …disgusting.
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You have a right to feel how you feel! If you are that bothered by hunting then I think I would follow the previous posters advice, only list the house and small parcel. The listing can include “additional acreage may be available for lease or purchase”
My property was listed that way, once they found out we wanted to keep it agricultural instead of subdividing it, we were in luck. There were other “requirements”, but I guess we were considered “neighbor worthy” and the land was offered at a very reasonable price.
Maybe as the old horse training analogy goes “make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard” goes for property sales as well?
In my defense, my husband and I are shooters, we are NOT hunters. We do not allowing hunting on our property, unless it is a Sporting Clay. We have one neighbor who thinks our Sunday afternoon trap shooting sessions are annoying, but I think his incessant firework displays at 11pm are also annoying. Oh well, we agree to disagree, lol
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Great advice! thank you.
We are shooters too, but things, not animals. We get a lot of shiny deflated helium balloons (i think we must be on a direct airflow highway from town?) and they make EXCELLENT targets.
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