predator
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So I have this stupid cow tag, and I got it cuz a friend o' mine said elk were usually on his property this time of the year. This unit is mostly private, and the public land is landlocked by the private. There is even a WMA on it, but you can't get to it (I still can't figure that one out).
Anyway, two things happened the past few days. First, my buddy only has about 5 acres. The county law in this area says you must be 600 feet from a building. The town law says you cannot discharge a firearm, yet the city fathers could not produce for me an actual ordinance to show me how it reads, and I hear that they never have been able to produce one. Given some of my dealings with another rural town in the area, I know that some of them just make stuff up. My buddy's property is half in the town, and half in the county. I go up there, and find myself exactly 267 yards from buildings (houses, actually). Now I could have gone farther, but it would have been off his property and onto a development not yet begun. It was not posted. In fact, not much of anybody's land is posted in this unit, yet I know it's private.
Should I go ahead and hunt it? My answer will be given later on.
The second property is similar, only it's bounded by a private ranch. The gate into the ranch is snowed in, and I know that no one is there this time of the year, and there are no signs of human activity. It is also not posted, but I have been told that the owners are jerks and don't allow trespass for any reason.
Should I hunt it?
The background for this puzzle is thus: Utah law requires that permission be obtained, in writing, to hunt PROPERLY POSTED private land. It is assumed posted if it is agricultural in nature. Otherwise, to be properly posted as private, all gates, corners and stream crossings must be marked with a minimum amount of paint or sign.
I'm interested to hear all your opinions on this one.....
Pred
So I have this stupid cow tag, and I got it cuz a friend o' mine said elk were usually on his property this time of the year. This unit is mostly private, and the public land is landlocked by the private. There is even a WMA on it, but you can't get to it (I still can't figure that one out).
Anyway, two things happened the past few days. First, my buddy only has about 5 acres. The county law in this area says you must be 600 feet from a building. The town law says you cannot discharge a firearm, yet the city fathers could not produce for me an actual ordinance to show me how it reads, and I hear that they never have been able to produce one. Given some of my dealings with another rural town in the area, I know that some of them just make stuff up. My buddy's property is half in the town, and half in the county. I go up there, and find myself exactly 267 yards from buildings (houses, actually). Now I could have gone farther, but it would have been off his property and onto a development not yet begun. It was not posted. In fact, not much of anybody's land is posted in this unit, yet I know it's private.
Should I go ahead and hunt it? My answer will be given later on.
The second property is similar, only it's bounded by a private ranch. The gate into the ranch is snowed in, and I know that no one is there this time of the year, and there are no signs of human activity. It is also not posted, but I have been told that the owners are jerks and don't allow trespass for any reason.
Should I hunt it?
The background for this puzzle is thus: Utah law requires that permission be obtained, in writing, to hunt PROPERLY POSTED private land. It is assumed posted if it is agricultural in nature. Otherwise, to be properly posted as private, all gates, corners and stream crossings must be marked with a minimum amount of paint or sign.
I'm interested to hear all your opinions on this one.....
Pred
......does that 600' law apply if it's your own house or building? I know a guy who has some acreage in the county and we use his back porch to to set up our shooting bench. This is CA though and not Utah.
