Buffalobwana
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High fence with skirting around the inside is extremely effective.I haven't seen a fence yet that is hog-proof.
High fence with skirting around the inside is extremely effective.I haven't seen a fence yet that is hog-proof.
Not in my part of TX. High timber in Davy Crockett National Forest borders me. Huge (50 yds tall and 2 to 3 ft diameter) shortleaf pines fall across my fences all the time. Can't keep fences up of any kind where I am.High fence with skirting around the inside is extremely effective.
Yep. No good deed goes unpunished."... If a land owner is concerned about liability issues from a person they are allowing to hunt on their property, have them sign a liability waiver. ..."
Mary Ann signed a "Restraining Order" on Joe Bob!
Joe Bob walked in the front door and shot Mary Ann.
A small farmer (about 200 acres) had neighbors sell out and a sub division grew up around him!
City slickers (?) moved to get away from the crime in town.
The farmers property was fenced and posted. A couple of 13 year old kids were out wandering around. One of them decided he could walk the top wire of a barbed wire fence.
When his foot slipped, it nearly castrated him and he nearly bled to death. His parents sued the farmer.
By the time it was all said and done, the farmer had to sell the farm.
"... liability waiver ..." my left hind leg!
End up with a liberal lawyer, a liberal judge and a sympathetic jury and you can kiss it all goodbye!
It's a complex problem. Letting hunters shoot pigs is about the poorest method of reducing pig numbers there is. You can't make any real difference with standard hunting methods including baiting. Especially with one dead pig here and there. You have to kill whole sounders, not a pig or three a weekend.
"... liability waiver ..." my left hind leg!
End up with a liberal lawyer, a liberal judge and a sympathetic jury and you can kiss it all goodbye!
Worked for a gentleman up here in Oklahoma, driving a tractor.It is a complex problem, but the trapping you suggest doesn't seem to be winning the war on hogs any better than hunting. Trapping may get more hogs on occasion, but the same problem remains where all the hogs are breeding on somebody else's property that doesn't allow for hunting or trapping. The hogs still come back. It isn't like the trappers are going out of business. I know people keep saying this is the way to take care of the problem only the problem isn't being taken care of when people do it.
This is a reality. The only safe way to play is to not let anyone on your property. The civil courts are full of contested waivers and contract and a lot of them don't hold up. The problem is that the person suing will be suing for something not covered by the waiver or will be suing that the waiver is somehow unfair and hence invalid and if the judge agrees, POOF your waiver effectively does not exist.
Fortunately in Texas, we have posting codified. Again, not absolute, but it does help. It falls under agri-tourism. My properties are posted as such and we point out the signs to guests.
It is under this same guise that we train beekeepers.
The problem with the law is that 1) it hasn't been fully tested and 2) does not appear to protect from 3rd party suits. What happens when the hunter you allow to hunt your property shoots at a hog/coyote/chupacabra and the bullet leaves the property and kills your neighbor's wife. Now, you are named with the shooter in a lawsuit because you ALLOWED the shooter to use your land ... and chances are between you and the shooter, you probably have more resources to lose in a suit than the shooter does, who may be going to jail, anyways.