re: Have you ever had a run in with a poacher?

Guess it depends what you consider poacher, but trespassers yeah.

We had a guy steal a lock on and steps in the back of our lease. Dude had cut a trail though woods across the property line so we just followed it to his trailer and got the shite back with the GWs. Turns out they'd stolen another stand from the same area from the guy that leased the land before us, and we got that back for him too.

Really sketchy dude and his trailer is only a little ways from our line. Reading that thread the other day about carrying in the woods - I always carried going back to that spot after that debacle, and it wasn't necessarily because of hogs. It really sucks, because our lease is bow only and we're all really conscious about time spent in the woods, scent, walking where we don't need to, etc., and we got these dudes on that back line just going around doing whatever the hell they want.

Growing up in Bogalusa, you couldn't run em off with anything. Happened all the time. Eventually we just stopped hunting private land and start hunted public because it was all the same basically.

We also have problems sometimes with guys hunting our land in the marsh.