Well, now I've done it!

[Acemac]

you guys sound like gull lake lake owners that get mad at me for casting into thier lake shore....

[gr8icefishinmind]

you guys sound like gull lake lake owners that get mad at me for casting into thier lake shore....

Why is that, as far as i know as long as you are in the water you are in public property so really what you just said has nothing to do with this situation!! I can see where the lake shore owner would get upset but that is tough luck cause the water is public!

[creepworm]

If forest land is planted and harvested it is considered ag land.

[Acemac]

I was out at a WMA in the waconia are last night just running the dog. there was a farmer sitting up the hill from the parking lot just watching me. I had no intention of crossing his electric barb wire fence, but he procedded to drive to diffrent vantage points to keep his hawk eyes on me.

I wonder if he saw me pick up 5 beer bottels and 3 empty shell boxes and stuff them in my vest?

I will never trample your crops or shoot deer on your property, but have things really goten that bad that if I wanted to run the dog on his feild road that he would be mad?

Its sad really!

I grew up in the woods and people have changed big time.

[BobT]

Seems like your making assumptions about his motive without any knowledge at all. You might be right that he was watching to make sure you stayed off his land but he could have been just curious or watching to see what you flushed during your walk. Maybe he did see you pick up the trash and thought to himself, "What a considerate hunter."

I often sit out on my deck to just enjoy the outdoors, soak up some sun, maybe sip on a bear or smoke a cigar. While out there I don't put a blindfold on and earplugs in so that I don't notice what's going on around me. I take in the sights. Maybe my neighbor is out chopping corn or I'll notice some hunters working the fenceline. If they cross onto my land a little, not a big deal, but I might still watch them. No ill will intended at all. In fact, I'm probably thinking, "Why am I sitting here instead of being out there with them?"

[Acemac]

you make good points...

[pureinsanity]

I will never trample your crops or shoot deer on your property, but have things really goten that bad that if I wanted to run the dog on his feild road that he would be mad?

Its sad really!

He is just being observant. Being he is right next to the public land. I can promise you people trespass weekly. Specially during hunting season. He also doesn't want people or dogs running a muck in his crops. Specially now when bumping the corn stalks or bean stalks can result in crops falling to the ground.

You also have to think of all the activity that goes on at that land besides hunting. Drinking, Dumping garbage, other illegal activities, ect. I am sure hes had his stuff messed with many times. I do not blame the guy one bit.

How did you know his fence was electric?

[walleye365]

i hunt some puplic land in the area and once or twice a hunting season im stoped by the dnr and hes nice but to the point about tresspassing. hes told me many times make sure you know were you are cause if i get a call about tresspassing there getting a ticket.Its got to this point because people just hunt were they please. IF you dont know or not sure then dont go on it until you do pretty simple to me. look at it this way someone tresspasses on your land and gets injured in some way theres a good possiablty your goin to get sued. Or they shoot threw your house or live stock etc ect.

[fishmounter]

Just my two cents, I was born and raised in North Dakota and it's always been that if it's not posted it's open to the public and if everyone understands that it's not to be abused as in driving across it, not leaving garbage, not hunting it if still has crop to be harvested and many farmers don't hunt their own land. If it's posted permission is still usually granted and some owners just like to know who's on their land or as stated above they have friends, relatives or their own immediate family that hunt it which everyone should be able to relate to and respect that. My family still owns land and it very seldom gets posted if it is posted permission is usually always given and that's one thing in living in Minnesota I miss that, permission should be granted whether it's posted or not.

[gr8icefishinmind]

permission should be granted whether it's posted or not.

Why, it is their land?? they have no obligation to let you HUNT THEIR LAND that THEY PAID FOR!!

[BobT]

Based on the gist of his post I wonder if he meant to say that permission should be obtained whether it's posted or not.

[LMITOUT]

I was always under the impression that in MN all private land is considered "posted" even without physically hanging a sign. That isn't the case? Maybe I'm thinking of SD?

[BobT]

I believe that is only true with ag land.

[Acemac]

guess it just ticks me off that so many bad outdoors people have really wrecked it for most of us.

a guy should not have to watch his land like a hawk people should just know better, but we dont live in that society any more...