Sunday, April 23. 2006

Checking Fence

Had the Hired man helping me check fences today before he left. I let him fix the fence while I checked it. If you look real hard you can see the fence run down through the country. Taken 4/22/2006.

This is what really irritates me about hunters. Cut your fence for their convenience. It might not be fair to lump all of them together for the sins of a few, but how am I supposed to tell the difference between the good and bad ones? Taken 4/22/2006.

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Doesn't it make you mad!! We get the same thing back here in the too-crowded east.I was expecting our oldest when hunters let our horses all out during a terrible early fall blizzard. The idiots just opened the back gate and dumped it on the ground. The horses were using the heifer pasture and a big open run-in shed that fall.
They would only come to me so I had to go out in snow over my waist in the middle of the night to catch them two at a time and bring them home from the farthest back part of the farm where they had gone.

#1 Marianne (Homepage) on 2006-04-23 09:35 (Reply)

Your picture is a familiar sight. We have this problem here, also. The hunters have no respect for fences or locked gates, and can't seem to read no trespassing signs. We've even had cattle and a horse shot. I'll call the law if I catch them, but getting the sheriff to do anything about it is another story.

#2 Linda on 2006-04-23 14:28 (Reply)

Are you sure it was hunters? I've hunted in Montana for the last 15 years and I have never seen or heard of wire cutters being used. I just assumed it was elk barging through. You got elk?

I have seen orange fence posts disregarded by snowmobiles and fourwheelers, which makes me sick. I really am surprised that you think hunters would do this, or that hunters would be so damn lazy.

On second thought, that is not even lazy. It seems like hard work to cut a fence just to walk through it. If it is strung up taut it would be dangerous. Agreed?

#3 Gerik (Homepage) on 2006-04-24 19:41 (Reply)

I can tell the difference between fence damaged by animals and fence cut by hunters. I am not stupid. I have been doing this for a while. The number of fences cut by hunters and gates left open by hunters is unbelievable around here.

There was over 10 splices in the wire in this one spot where we have had to put it back together. I am seriously thinking about putting a gate in. That way when they leave the gate open all I have to do is shut it.

That is if they open the gate. In the same area in the past two years I have had to rebuild streches where they just drove through gates and fences and kept going, and yes I am sure it is hunters and not animals, unless animals are using wheeled vehicles and leaving gut piles laying around.

*I have been doing this my whole life, if it was elk damage I would have said so*.

#4 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2006-04-24 21:24 (Reply)

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