You don't know poaching problems until you live in close proximity to Amish Dutchmen.
These are people who don't use refrigerators. So they take fresh meat of any kind, anytime they can without regard for Seasons, Bag Limits, or Posted signs. When you see a dozen or so marching across Posted Land, calling the Game Wardens does absolutely no good. I've chased some down after seeing them cross a fence within 2 feet of a bright colored Posted sign, and they swear they never saw it. I never thought I would post my land until the year I hunted in the woods right behind my house on the first day of deer season. I saw only a couple deer, but a constant stream of Amish Dutchies... none of whom had asked permission to hunt my land. One had set up a ladder stand that I had thought belonged to a white neighbor (they call us white men or Englishmen) who archery hunted back there. I caught a Dutchman climbing the ladder just before sunrise, and asked him if that was his tree stand. He told me the landowner had given him permission to set it up. When I not so politely informed him I was the f***ing landowner, he stammered, "Oh, I guess we'll let you hunt here then."
I decided then and there to put up Posted signs... which turned out to be a monumental waste of time.
Trail cameras wouldn't help either. The Amish trespassers all look alike and dress exactly the same. Give the cops a description in this area of some guys with lever action .30-30's, beards, wire rimmed glasses, straw hats, homemade denim pants, blue cotton shirts, black boots, and an orange vest, and that will describe the entire community. They inbreed and marry their cousins, so they all have the same DNA. Their buggies all look pretty much the same too, and they don't have license plates. Ask most landowners near here why they posted their land, and almost all say it was an attempt to keep the Dutchies out. If only you could get 12 of these landowners on the Jury if you got caught shooting an Amish trespasser, you would almost certainly be acquitted.
