Public access and Wildlife management sign shooting-WHY?

[laker1]

Why is it a certain group of individuals have to shoot up signs at just about every wildlife management unit and many public accesses at times? It is disgraceful,makes other outdoors people look bad to people who don't hunt and it cost a ton of money to keep replacing these signs that are there for a reason and informative.. This is not a isolated occurrence.

Today I was at a wildlife management unit and signs were just riddled with from a large caliber firearm. It just makes you sick.

[bobbymalone]

I always thought that was frustration from not having the chance to shoot the gun in the field.

[laker1]

Its immaturity and lack of respect for anything. people like that don't really care about other people. along with shooting the signs they dumped their garbage in the parking lot.

[leech~~]

Not all this is from Sportsman. Some times local teens are out having a few Beers!

[laker1]

Not all this is from Sportsman. Some times local teens are out having a few Beers!

I agree,

but also people who do these things are not sportsmen either. I think the word sportsmen carries some dignity and responsibility.

It not teens always either.

[Lunker]

Alcohol + group mentality. The combination that causes a lot of vandalism issues. Same vein as mail box smashers and graffiti

[HNTNBUX]

People are stupid. It's not more difficult than that.

[Neighbor_guy]

Bullet holes add character...

I have an old sign from "Minnesota Fish and Game" that obviously took a load from a load of BB

Wouldn't have had the same feel to it without it. Woulda found its way to someone else's basement instead of mine.

Yes it's destructive and it looks bad, but it shouldn't surprise anyone.

The lack of respect and safety is the bigger worry. That little tin sign won't stop or deform much if anything and those bullets will continue on a long ways. Some people see them as something to shoot at and boom... It's not unique to MN either. For some reason signs get shot in WY, MO, IA, WI, NE,... You get the picture.... I almost come to expect it.

(For the record I'm not a sign shooter...)

[leech~~]

The shot up signs along dirt and tar roads are the ones that make me a little nervous because the bullets can travel a long ways down the roads. I noticed the last few years going through town that Deer River is putting a big orange hunting vest on the towns big Deer along the road during Deer season. I'm sure it's just for fun, but maybe not?

[laker1]

Many of these signs are boundary marking signs,or instructional signs,and to replace these signs is not cheap. Yes road signs the same.

I guess I am not tolerate,I think it should be automatically loss of hunting rights for so long. No reason to it,its like people breaking car windows just for the fun of it.

[jentz]

Long time ago kids tipped outhouses,Waxed window halloween time,things progressed,sign shooting has been going on since I remember back in the 50s.I've shot a few,Driving down dirt roads and throwing empty bottles out of a car doing 45-60 mph was timing and see if a bottle would hit the sign.Now days kids blow up mailboxes!In my time it was a cherry bomb,stop light it put it in and drive away.Kids do stupid stuff.Always have.sure it costs the state, county, townships DNR $$.Its been happening since the kids got the mule and wagon to get to town back then.I'd bet if honesty prevailed here there would lots who admitted their FUN destruction.Kids will be kids you were young also and did stupin things!

[ozzie]

Deerwood has the vest on the deer...and I can admit to being an one-who-thinks-I-am-silly at times when younger and throwing a few beer bottles at signs as we drove by them (had a good run hittin 8/10 one outing) but I think that is also why I try to pick up a lot of garbage on the side of the road, in the woods, and especially on the ice. I don't recall ever shooting a sign but have seen many with the bullet holes and it makes one wonder!!

[leech~~]

Deerwood has the vest on the deer...and I can admit to being an one-who-thinks-I-am-silly at times when younger and throwing a few beer bottles at signs as we drove by them (had a good run hittin 8/10 one outing) but I think that is also why I try to pick up a lot of garbage on the side of the road, in the woods, and especially on the ice. I don't recall ever shooting a sign but have seen many with the bullet holes and it makes one wonder!!

That's it Deerwood. I keep getting Deerwood and Deer river mixed up. Thanks ozzie.

[jentz]

Deerwood has the vest on the deer...and I can admit to being an one-who-thinks-I-am-silly at times when younger and throwing a few beer bottles at signs as we drove by them (had a good run hittin 8/10 one outing) but I think that is also why I try to pick up a lot of garbage on the side of the road, in the woods, and especially on the ice. I don't recall ever shooting a sign but have seen many with the bullet holes and it makes one wonder!!

Hey great oz! we can't degrade to many.Once we think of the things we did.There's really isn't a scale of 1 to 10 to categorize it.think what did I do??

[HandGunner]

Easier to shoot a sign than game in tht case just stop hunting

[BLACKJACK]

Driving down dirt roads and throwing empty bottles out of a car doing 45-60 mph was timing and see if a bottle would hit the sign.

I thought we were the only ones that did that!!!!

Seriously, I'm surprised more people don't get shot, you see the slug/rifle holes in some of those signs and you wonder what the idiots are thinking, those bullets will travel a long ways!!

[pikerliker]

Probably the same idiots who shoot holes in signs on rural highways...