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<blockquote data-quote="Topgun 30-06" data-source="post: 677580" data-attributes="member: 28854"><p>That happens all the time out west! Many of these ranchers think they own everything out there and they will pull that if they think they can get away with it and bluff people off the BLM. Before I bought this chip I was making my own maps from a CD ROM of Wyoming that I bought right from the G&F website. There is a rancher where we hunt that is known as an ahole all over the county and the first morning of our elk bow hunt in 2009 we got back to our truck and had him and a Deputy Sheriff waiting for us. The lady told us we were going to be issued tickets for trespassing and she wouldn't even say where we were supposed to have been trespassing. Being retired from a job as an Investigator with the State of MI, I flat told her she might want to hold off if she didn't want to get into hot water because we had not been on private deeded property and I pointed out exactly where we had been that morning. The guy then tells her that we had walked back down a little cow path that was definitely on his property to get to our truck. With that she took me aside and told me she would talk to the Sheriff and hold up on writing the tickets. A couple days later I went over to her office at the county seat and filled out a report stating exactly what had happened and verbally told her if the guy harrassed us any more that I would be filing charges for hunter harrassment with the Game Warden who I knew pretty well. Then I went next door to the Prosecutors Office, told the top guy waht was going on and showed him my GPS and maps that we were using to make sure that we were not trespassing. He was impressed and asked if there were any signs or fences where we were supposed to have trespassed. I said no and he asked how the guy knew we were on deeded land and I told him the rancher had told the lady we had to be on his deeded land because we were near one of the water tanks the BLM had installed for his cattle. The guy told me to go have a good hunt and not worry about getting a ticket and that if I did to come see him, enter a not guilty plea, and it would be tossed in file 13 as he would never prosecute anyone that was trying to be legal like we were. Now with this chip in my GPS and with the tracking feature turned on, it will show exactly where we were and should be even more evidence in our favor if something else comes up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topgun 30-06, post: 677580, member: 28854"] That happens all the time out west! Many of these ranchers think they own everything out there and they will pull that if they think they can get away with it and bluff people off the BLM. Before I bought this chip I was making my own maps from a CD ROM of Wyoming that I bought right from the G&F website. There is a rancher where we hunt that is known as an ahole all over the county and the first morning of our elk bow hunt in 2009 we got back to our truck and had him and a Deputy Sheriff waiting for us. The lady told us we were going to be issued tickets for trespassing and she wouldn't even say where we were supposed to have been trespassing. Being retired from a job as an Investigator with the State of MI, I flat told her she might want to hold off if she didn't want to get into hot water because we had not been on private deeded property and I pointed out exactly where we had been that morning. The guy then tells her that we had walked back down a little cow path that was definitely on his property to get to our truck. With that she took me aside and told me she would talk to the Sheriff and hold up on writing the tickets. A couple days later I went over to her office at the county seat and filled out a report stating exactly what had happened and verbally told her if the guy harrassed us any more that I would be filing charges for hunter harrassment with the Game Warden who I knew pretty well. Then I went next door to the Prosecutors Office, told the top guy waht was going on and showed him my GPS and maps that we were using to make sure that we were not trespassing. He was impressed and asked if there were any signs or fences where we were supposed to have trespassed. I said no and he asked how the guy knew we were on deeded land and I told him the rancher had told the lady we had to be on his deeded land because we were near one of the water tanks the BLM had installed for his cattle. The guy told me to go have a good hunt and not worry about getting a ticket and that if I did to come see him, enter a not guilty plea, and it would be tossed in file 13 as he would never prosecute anyone that was trying to be legal like we were. Now with this chip in my GPS and with the tracking feature turned on, it will show exactly where we were and should be even more evidence in our favor if something else comes up. [/QUOTE]
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