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#1 ·
The closer Sunday hunting gets to passing the more landowners I hear saying if it passes they are posting their land. Just talked to one the other day who said that hunters use his land 6 days a week and he and his family would like at least one day when they can use it without having to deal with hunters.
Anyone else hearing from landowners?
 
#8 ·
I'm glad to see some guys on here honoring the property owners wishes. But in my experience, most people don't.


In the past we asked people hunting our property to stay out of certain areas, only hunt certain days, no rifles, etc. Someone always thought the rules didn't apply to them. Plus you still have to deal with the guys sitting 2 feet over the property line shooting on to yours......
 
#9 ·
The farm I hunt the owners dont care if I hunt on Sundays. I've been there before hunting crows. I help out when I can, haul hay for them with my truck. In return I have pretty much unlimited access to their property as long as I don't shoot the cows.
 
#10 ·
my experience has been mostly the owner change of property & trespassing (hunting & non hunting) as to why I can no longer hunt there.


the last 2 farms I have permission to hunt on, trespassing is again the issue. now that Sunday hunting is on the table,
I have been told ALL hunting will cease if it passes as they feel trespassing will get worse.
they do not want anyone there on a Sunday.



signs do not get the issue resolved (been there,done that), so until the trespassing issue is addressed to the property owners satisfaction,
I cannot support Sunday hunting.


at least there is state land nearby for me to use......................
 
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my experience has been mostly the owner change of property & trespassing (hunting & non hunting) as to why I can no longer hunt there.


the last 2 farms I have permission to hunt on, trespassing is again the issue. now that Sunday hunting is on the table,
I have been told ALL hunting will cease if it passes....
If you are dependant on the good will of others for a hunting spot, sounds like a great opportunity to meet the neighboring farms and explain how their neighbor is about to turn his farm into a deer preserve, and how you would be willing to help them out with the likely extra crop damage on any day(s) they were comfortable with.
 
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#26 ·
I know, for sure, of hundreds of acres that are about to go the same way. Between ignorant people, worthless trespass laws and other, lesser factors, there's a WHOOOOOOOLE bunch of (reasonable, intelligent and logical) landowners looking at Sunday hunting as the LAST STRAW.
 
#14 ·
Always found it interesting that the PAFB and Grange have favored opening up the Fri. And Sat. after Thanksgiving and tacking on another week after the two week season without any mention of trespass being a problem.
 
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#32 ·
Where is your land? I will personally come out on Sundays during morel mushroom season and patrol it for you. I'm a sizable fella and can be quite intimidating. Of course, this has nothing to do with me trying to weasel into your morel mushroom patches. :whistle:
 
#17 ·
Landowners can do as they wish. If some landowners want to shut hunting down 7 days a week if Sunday hunting passes, it is their right. If they truly welcomed hunters, most will reopen it in time when the sky doesn't fall. Many of these reports are threats meant to gain leverage in the discussion.

The good thing is there will be 100s of thousands of acres of land that was previously off limits to hunting by law, opened up for the first time. The gains will far outweigh the losses.
 
#18 ·
I allowed anyone that asked permission to hunt my property when I first bought it. The problem with that is nobody asked and I live on the property. So I dealt with people just going on my property and dumping trash for about six months then I posted the entire property and put gates up. Then I had two gates destroyed and people hunting it more than before. No respect so I had to take action and I called the state police and set an example. So as for Sunday hunting that will not change a thing for me. I will continue to post my property and not allow anyone but family and friends on it. I don't see how adding one day would change any landowners mindset on posting their property. People that posted their land did it for a reason, and they can because they spent the $$$$ and can do what they want.
 
#27 ·
It is the height of stupidity that a landowner should have to post his property at all. It is a constant battle with miscreants who tear down signs or claim they don't see signs, etc. Try that bull crap out west and see how long a vacation from the public is imposed. Should be like several other states where advance written permission is required to hunt any private land. Despite posted signs we have idiots putting on drives right between the house and barn. When stopped they claim they were given permission by "Joe" "Joe" hasn't owned this land since 1987 and died in 1998, in a few cases, before the trespasser was even born. And like the OP indicated, I want one day a week that I do not have to worry about the pumpkin army traipsing everywhere they please. Not every hunter is careful about his back stop or where the bullet will go if he misses. Have one bullet hole in the barn already. (Unless 22 caliber meteorites fly horizontally) I can't say that Sunday hunting will be the end of hunting on my property, but it will be the end of giving warnings. It is sort of ironic that currently, the one thing the habitual hunting law breaker avoids for the most part, is illegally hunting on Sundays. How much land will be posted and how many fewer licenses will the PGC sell because of lost private land access?
 
#28 ·
Great post there zimm. I agreee 100 % I got hammered on spotlighting on private property. I could only suspect most do not own property or have ever been inconvenienced by someone trespassing on their property would get it. My property is my property and I should be allowed to enjoy it as you do. But then you hear what are you hiding or doing illegal on YOUR property from some of these guys blows my mind. Amazing how a so called hunter would ever step foot on property he doesn't belong or have a right to be on. I own great land and will restrict any person who hunts my land to what I want. If it meant no Sunday hunting so be it.
 
#31 ·
Might be just the tremendous exposure because of the internet, but when I was coming up through the ranks over 50 yrs ago, a lot of people were against doe hunting, and a lot of farms around here had signs saying "NO DOE HUNTING". To my recollection that issue never got the heavy press that the sunday hunting has gotten. The ones saying they will close their land because of sunday hunting, and not wanting to be disturbed on Sunday, all they have to do is post "NO SUNDAY HUNTING" signs. I think a lot of landowners are making a mountain out of a molehill. It's no different than a landowner along a river or creek posting no fishing signs. Simple......See the sign, move on
 
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#37 ·
I too would love to see PA's pathetic trespass laws revised. I have said it before--far too many people show far too little respect for things that are not theirs. I would love to see the law changed to having extremely heavy penalties for trespassing onto property without permission. Changed to the point where if one is caught they either pay extremely large amounts of money, or hefty jail sentence. I have no issues with normal people. However my issue is with those who think they can just hunt where ever, and when ever they please, and totally ignore posted signs. I show respect for others, and property in which is not mine. I ask the same, but--asking for respect, and not having trespassers---I'm dreaming--I know.
 
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