Thread: Bloody Poachers!

Small minority ruining it for everyone else. Happens in every game.

Some idiots drove through the back of our farm spotlighting on Saturday night. Instead of opening the 6 or 7 gates they drove through, they rammed them with their truck, bending most and f&*ing the hinges on two, and left them wide open. They weren't even padlocked! Two boundary gates were left wide open, and it was only lucky I went through first thing the next morning and found them, that a few hundred of our ewes weren't on the neighbours swedes helping themselves to a feed.

We let hunters onto our place, only one party of hunters allowed per weekend for safety, and have never turned anyone away if they've asked and arent someone we've had previous issues with. Only last week, a local asked if he could go for a deer in the evening or morning, and was given permission to go to certain spots due to our sheep being set stock in certain blocks. I went out with some mates spotlighting possums for a few hours, and on our way home about midnight we caught up with this guy on his quad with a couple of mates, driving around the farm with a spotlight and high powered rifles "looking for possums"...bullsh*t! Worst thing was, he tried to laugh it off, and said my old man had let him go spotlighting!

But when guys who ask are still breaking the rules, where do you draw the line? When this sort of sh*t happens, how do you think it makes a land owner feel? And when we start locking the gates and turning people away, guess who's going to be the called all the names under the sun and end up with a poaching problem that's completely out of hand.

Some people just need to pull their f'n heads in and speak up if they know their mates are up to no good