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Last Weekend while Goose hunting with my son and his friend I was kicked off of a hunting spot that I have had permision for 20yrs to hunt.
Here is the story as it unfolds.
After a couple of hours of hunting I started to walk across a plowed corn field to check out another spot for a better setup. As I was walking back to our first setup I seen the farmer coming up real fast on his tractor and he stopped in front of our setup and he was waving his hands and yelling. When I approached the farmer he said after today we could no longer hunt on his land. I was shocked and asked why . He told me he had seen my son's friend pull up some soybean plants and he had destroyed his crops.
I quickly chastized the youth and said that I would pay for any damage . I told Him I was sorry. He said to finish hunting for the day and see him after we picked up. I was real sick about the issue. After he left I asked my son's friend how many plants he pulled up and he said 4 and showed me where he had pulled them. I told him never to pull even one plant on a farmer land that is His living.
I have taught my son that we do not even leave shell casings or any trash laying around and to respect the land owner's property. This was the first time that the youth hunted with us and it was my fault for not telling him the same.
We pulled our gear and I went talked, showed the farmer that 4 plants had been picked nothing else destroyed and that I was real sorry ( which I was) and asked about the damages and He said that will be $40. I almost fell to the ground but I did not argue I paid him he said to take the 4 plants that I had paid for them. I did and shucked out the soybeans and put then in a small baby food jar. I even weighed them 3ozs.
$213 per pound is what that comes out to.
This was a very expensive lesson learned both in money and experience
Here is the story as it unfolds.
After a couple of hours of hunting I started to walk across a plowed corn field to check out another spot for a better setup. As I was walking back to our first setup I seen the farmer coming up real fast on his tractor and he stopped in front of our setup and he was waving his hands and yelling. When I approached the farmer he said after today we could no longer hunt on his land. I was shocked and asked why . He told me he had seen my son's friend pull up some soybean plants and he had destroyed his crops.
I quickly chastized the youth and said that I would pay for any damage . I told Him I was sorry. He said to finish hunting for the day and see him after we picked up. I was real sick about the issue. After he left I asked my son's friend how many plants he pulled up and he said 4 and showed me where he had pulled them. I told him never to pull even one plant on a farmer land that is His living.
I have taught my son that we do not even leave shell casings or any trash laying around and to respect the land owner's property. This was the first time that the youth hunted with us and it was my fault for not telling him the same.
We pulled our gear and I went talked, showed the farmer that 4 plants had been picked nothing else destroyed and that I was real sorry ( which I was) and asked about the damages and He said that will be $40. I almost fell to the ground but I did not argue I paid him he said to take the 4 plants that I had paid for them. I did and shucked out the soybeans and put then in a small baby food jar. I even weighed them 3ozs.
$213 per pound is what that comes out to.
This was a very expensive lesson learned both in money and experience
Sadly, $40.00 may soon prove cheap. I've found some places to hunt - most of these are people that I work with who own land in Crawford, Mercer, Lawrence. But if I'm going to have to add a few adjacent farms. Geese'll keep moving. These are people I don't know - I dread that I may have to dig deep in the wallet. For what it's worth - best of luck. I hope - hope - that we're wrong.
