Not only that, let your child know where not to play. Don't see why you could get in trouble for doing something like that to your property. If someone gets hurt, they should not have been tresspassing. How does that even make any sense?

Then why do we have insurance then?? There is a reason for everything.

Insurance is for accidents and acts of God not gross negligence and/or intent to harm.

Going to have to agree that setting traps is a really bad idea.

They guy you're trying to teach a lesson is going to end up owning your ranch.

Right but these guys say they just want to throw boards with nails out b/c they want to. Insurance will pay up before wasting tens of thousands from court fees unless the person dies from tenanus. lol. Anyway, it's not a good idea unless you like attorney's.

If I am confronted on my property by a poacher who is armed I can exercise my right to protect myself and shoot him. (from the words of the game warden)

As an underwriter specializing in General liability insurance, I can say that We would fight pretty hard to deny the claim if it was an intentional / malicious act. Regarding the defense costs... Where there is no coverage, there is no duty to defend... You better believe my carriers would file for summary judgement and would get dismissed from the case PDQ.

If I was you and thought I might "accidently" leave lumber laying around with nails in it, I dang sure wouldn't mention it online...

I prefer to leave No.15 Offset Bear Traps laying around.....
you know @ the base of deer stands ect....

Personally, if it were me, and someone felt the need to tresspass MY land, I would not throw down a nail strip. I'd do it differently.

ehh. Im not worried about it. Im real forgetful and have junk all over the place so they can just take it as a friendly reminder.

So I guess an electric fence would fall under the same category? Even if it was posted. So if someone didn't have livestock but put up an electric fence anyway. That's an "intentional" act.

This story seems to have lost a lot of the info that was posted when It happened, from what I remember. The article seems to say the foreigner with no understanding of boundaries just opened up and kill them . I believe it turned out like below where the guys cornered the Asian guy and insulted him because of his race, then while walking away they took shots at the ground, then he gunned them down. If a paocher is caught hold him at gun point if need be and call the GW , not your beer drinking buddies.

Don't do this. Unless you actually want a cellmate...

How could they lock you up for that. The hunter approaches his stand and confrots the poacher. The hunter shoots him, killing him. Hunter calls the local law enforcement. Hunter tell locals that he approached the stand, told the guy to get off the property, the poacher raised his weapon aggressively so hunter shot him. Unless they can get the dead poacher to talk there isn't a DA in Texas who would prosecute this, well maybe around Austin.

Had a place in Haskell that had two many access points we caught people on game cam , found shell casings, car tracks , found trash in our stands that was not there the weekend before it makes it very frustrating to put all the hard work into a place to have crap like this taking place while you aren't there . I also had a place in archer city that was on a deadend road we were the last place except for the land owners house had a wheatfield next to the road a spot lighters dream we had problems in the past with the issue . We had gone into town to eat and one the way back I noticed the tail lenses of a pickup that was parked down the hill pulled into our second gate i flew down the gravel road sliding in my truck right behind the outher vehicle as i noticed someone in the truck thinking they were waiting on ther friend to find the deer that they had shoot i ran up to the truck put a 45 up to the window to realize it was a 16year old boy getting his first bj i you should have seen the look on his face priceless i felt like crap knowing i ruined his night guarantee he wont ever forget that night .

Thats funny!!! You poached the smile off his face!

how did you know that it was his first?

LOL

X2

I don't doubt for a minute that they guy was poaching.....but there is no way one man was able to poach all the good deer off 11,000 acres by himself.....not without a helicopter and a mini-gun.

We all know there are poachers who lurk around this site - and especially in the Photo forum - constantly asking where a buck got shot - trying to narrow down to a county road or landmark. Like "we hunt off FM 1745 near Dodge Cemetery". I wouldn't believe everything you read on here - alot of this dribble is half truths.

Here is some stuff I found about trespassing and liability - looks like ME Lackey is correct - read on
According to the Texas Penal Code, a “No Trespassing Sign” is automatically imparted by fences or other enclosures obviously designed to exclude intruders or to contain livestock.


Judon Fambrough is an attorney and senior lecturer at the Real Estate Center of Texas A&M University. “According to case law, a landowner’s liability, or responsibility, for anyone entering the property depends on the legal classification of the person at the time of the injury,” he said. While state laws differ, most rely on these classifications:

• Invitees, including fee-paying hunters. You must protect them by keeping your property safe and warning them of dangerous conditions that a reasonable inspection would reveal.
• Licensees, including nonpaying hunters with permission. You have a duty to warn them of known dangerous conditions or make the place safe, but no inspection is required.
• Trespassers, including hunters not given permission. You owe trespassers little legal duty.
• Trespassing children unaccompanied by an adult. You have greater responsibility to children.


Landowner’s Liability
to Hunters
A landowner’s liability (or responsibility)
for the safety of anyone entering
the property depends on the legal
classification of the person at the time
of injury. There are four categories: an
invitee, a licensee, a trespasser and
children under the attractive nuisance
doctrine. Theoretically, a hunter could
fit in any one of these.
Fee-paying hunters are classified
as invitees. Landowners have a legal
duty to keep the premises safe for the
invitee’s protection. The landowner
must give the fee-paying hunter adequate
and timely notice of concealed
or latent perils (dangerous conditions)
that are personally known or that a
reasonable inspection would reveal.
Injuries caused by dangerous conditions
that are apparent or that could
be revealed by reasonable inspection
are the landowner’s responsibility, but
comparative negligence may lessen the
liability. (See reprint 893, "Landowner
Liability for Hunters," for a complete
explanation of comparative negligence.)
Nonpaying hunters with permission
to hunt are classified as licensees.
Landowners have a legal duty to warn
licensees of known dangerous conditions
or to make the conditions reasonably
safe. No inspection is required.
Hunters who enter without permission
are classified as trespassers. The
landowner owes them no legal duty.
The law prohibits the landowner from
willfully or wantonly injuring a trespasser
except in self-defense or when
protecting property. The landowner is
liable for gross negligence or for acts
done with malicious intent or in bad
faith.

Like I've posted before, all this Rambo stuff will end up with you in jail and broke. Confront the guy, tell him to stay off your property and call the game warden. And don't blow a hole through him with some jacked up, hand loaded, reload.

Don't disagree with you

I agree with you Huntmaster, some people just dont understand the legal ramifications of a situation like this. Especially those that dont own any land.

an electric fence would be something that is reasonable and customary on a tract of land that could be used to contain livestock. A booby trap is a different thing altogether. A person can generally tell when there is an electric fence, all you have to do is look for the insulator on every post...