How to annoy the Armorer.

By The Armorer on May 2, 2008 | | Comments (18)

Admittedly, it really doesn't take all that much, if you go about it right.


Take this picture, fr'instance.


Poachers! Alarm! Alarm!

Looks like your average normal guard tower on the frontiers of the Demesne, right? Well, that or a deer stand.

Heh.

*I* didn't build it. None of the people I gave permission to hunt the Demesne this year built it.

And it wasn't there last fall. Someone has a rather different view of "Private Property" than I do. It's not like it wasn't marked or something...

Heh.

It isn't here any more, either. And look, the Sun came out and shone brightly as the interloper was destroyed. But the components will become part of the expanded Fowl Barracks of Argghhh!

Scorched Earth!

Which needs it, after having been battered a bit in last night's 80 mile straight-line winds and 1.5 inches of rain... and Ry's Outhouse suffered a bit, too. But he's going to be here this weekend, so we'll get it all fixed up.

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By BloodSpite on May 2, 2008 10:07 AM
I didn't do it! :) Besides I prefer portable stands. Don't marr up the scenery and usually are a lot easier on the tree's
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 2, 2008 10:12 AM
We've also had some traffic on our "at the end of a mile-long dead end" road that might be explained by this artifact - that and the mushroom poachers.
 
By JimC on May 2, 2008 10:12 AM
Can you take them out with a sniper rifle as armed intruders? Some folks have a lot of nerve. Glad to hear you weren't roughed up too much early this morning (about 0200).
 
By Boquisucio on May 2, 2008 10:15 AM
Morel Hunters need a 'Shroom Stand? Why, the masses inquire. BTW - Did Ry's Home Of The Big Buns ever get a proper designation?
 
By ry on May 2, 2008 10:44 AM
(shuffle steps over) Zug zug. Yes m'lord.
 
By KCSteve on May 2, 2008 12:47 PM
Did you leave them a nice note explaining that armed intruders could be met by an armed response? Possibly an in person patrol, possibly from long range. You know, just a polite and friendly reminder of the difference between public and private property.
 
By htom on May 2, 2008 12:53 PM
You've probably destroyed an official government lurking tower. ;)
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 2, 2008 1:44 PM
Htom - oh, clearly not. They would have put up something like this...
 
By Blake Kirk on May 2, 2008 1:48 PM
We've had similar problems in the past on our property here in Tennessee. But things have gotten better since the Tenn. Wildlife Resources Agency published a new rule that said that hunting on private property without possession of individual written permission from the landowner on the person of each hunter in the party to hunt that specific piece of property would be considered poaching. And Tennessee law permits the TWRA to confiscate any and all chattels used in the commission of poaching. The last time the local wardens caught a poacher around here they confiscated his gun, his dogs, his pickup truck, and the clothes he was standing in. When his wife bailed him out of the county hoosegow he went home in his underwear, a Tyvek coverall, and a set of flip-flops.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 2, 2008 1:56 PM
Well, I can have some sympathy for the dogs. They didn't do anything wrong, to get ripped from their home. The rest, tough noogies.
 
By OlafTheTanker on May 2, 2008 6:07 PM
Tack up a few used targets with well placed shot groupings in it's place.. if they don't get the hint from that sort of signage....
 
By Gun Trash on May 2, 2008 10:49 PM
It wasn't a tree stand that surprised us one late summer day when walked the back part of 84 acres we used to own. It was the healthy, well-tended pot plants we stumbled upon. We let the sheriff take care of it. He said since that part of our property bordered the Daniel Boone National Forest the folks who planted it probably thought they were on public land and no one would be back in that remote area before they could harvest it in the fall. They thought wrong.
 
By Justthisguy on May 2, 2008 11:27 PM
Even if it hadn't been posted, building _structures_ on somebody else's property is pretty rude. And they hurt the tree, too. Somebody might want to saw that tree up some day and make something of it, but couldn't because the wood was all diseased from nail wounds.
 
By Justthisguy on May 2, 2008 11:36 PM
P.s. When I worked for Bartlett and acquired my chipper expertise and tinnitus, we were not allowed to climb living trees using climbers on boots. Making a hole in a tree always introduces tree pathogens. Exception, of course, if the tree was coming down anyway. Tinnitus aside, I'm glad for the experience, not least because it contributed to Michael Z. Williamson's decision to exempt me from the general chipping of FL voters if he becomes Dictator.
 
By Gary on May 3, 2008 8:22 PM
Nothing says "No Trespassing" like a Claymore. A dummy training one, of course.
 
By Murray on May 3, 2008 10:11 PM
Well it wasn't me, I don't hunt deer. I do have some experience at hunting people though. Will work for guns n ammo. No not the mag. I'm wondering what sort of damage a 30kg rough would suffer if I let crash right through the stand from 500'
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 4, 2008 8:09 AM
To quote "The Guide"... "Absolutely none."
 
By Damian on May 5, 2008 9:18 AM
Whoever put that stand up needs to take up a safer hobby. Like poking grizzly bears with sticks while wearing a venison chop tied to your private parts... (Seriously? Hunting without permission on Donovan land? Are you terminally remedial?)