Originally Posted By: Pete
Back in the 90's we had a problem with a poacher. My neighbor has 120 acres and I have 16. We are surrounded by National Forest with me bordering on 3 sides. A strange vehicle with no lights came down my road one night and found it was dead end at my place and hot rodded out when I came out with a gun. Strange vehicle. Looked like a jeep but much taller. Another night the young guys living at my neighbor's place tried to race it down but got their window shot out. Wrong guys to mess with. One had an AR and the other a mini 14 both with multiple 30 round clips. They found the vehicle a week later with the owner away from it probably boning out a deer. They put 200 rounds through it (200 coming out, too). Never came back.

Unfortunately, country justice is the only justice many of us will get and it is the only thing many trespassers understand. I have held two trespassers at gunpoint for the troopers, and it is a bad experience all around. Very uncomfortable. Each time the trooper has backed me up, because the trespasser(s) is/are armed and have left their vehicle parked under a Posted sign etc, they have been warned etc. Defiant trespass. I really do not understand why people do it in places where there is an abundance of public land.

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