Hunting 'Unposted' Private Land

[Weaver]

The law allowing hunters to trespass onto posted property to retrieve game shot elsewhere. Again I am all for recovery of “legally taken animals” but this has opened up a huge can of worms for the landowners. Exploitation of it has created all kinds of trouble for landowners wanting to keep private land private. Use the model other states have requiring permission to track/ recover because it should be up to the private landowner as to who he wants on his land, not the government. It truly is unconstitutional to seize private land for special interest pursuits again regardless of the brevity of each situation. It has been abused to excess and the wording or law should be repealed/ changed to revert full ownership to the landowner as it is in nearly every state. What makes ND different from the rest who respect landowner rights?

 

[Iwhackwheat]

No land is being seized. If they are already breaking the law shooting the animal, a new law that says they can’t retrieve it isn’t going to stop them. That law is going to impede legal hunters who sometimes have an unfortunate circumstance.

 

[Weaver]

No land is being seized. If they are already breaking the law shooting the animal, a new law that says they can’t retrieve it isn’t going to stop them. That law is going to impede legal hunters who sometimes have an unfortunate circumstance.

I am referring to those who use the existing law to exploit the meaning of it. using it to aid them in carrying out an illegal act. Other states respect Private property rights why not ND? And yes land is being seized for that moment.

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

Forty North Dakota deer seasons and I have never heard of people driving deer off of posted land by pretending to need to recover a wounded animal. NEVER. Anyone else heard of this?

 

[bravo]

This is an attempt to light a fire for the upcoming legislative session. Another manufactured outrage for a new useless law in under the landowner rights banner.

 

[1lessdog]

Forty North Dakota deer seasons and I have never heard of people driving deer off of posted land by pretending to need to recover a wounded animal. NEVER. Anyone else heard of this?

It's 52 yrs for me, never heard of it and never had to go on someone's post land to retrieve a downed animal.

 

[PrairieGhost]

Unfortunately I have seen it all on both sides. One day south of Pipestem dam headquarters a van with Minnesota plates was parked on the road between a no hunting zone and private posted land. I thought maybe they missed the signs so I stopped simply to inform him that his five friends headed our way were in a no hunting zone. He said they were just photographing. Sure enough they all had cameras, but they were marching abreast 50 yards apart. I asked him if he thought game wardens were retarded enough to believe it.
On the other hand I have witnessed (not hunting with me) a person told he can't retrieve on private land when the deer was dead and visible from the road. The landowner told the hunter it was a Game and Fish regulation and that under trespass law he had called the Sheriff and had people prosecuted before. I listened for a couple minutes put the pickup in gear and drove away from that crap show.
My hunting partner one year scouted for a couple weeks ahead of time. He pulled into an approach opening day and watched from sunrise to about 11:58 am when the landowner pulled up and drove a post with a posted sign only inches from his front bumper smiling all the while

No one group has a monopoly on aholes. Unfortunately one bad hunter ticks of multiple landowners, and one bad landowner ticks off many hunters. And off we march more divided and both with less support each year.