I had an individual trespass on my property several years ago; it was a week-day when I rarely went out to the place. I got the afternoon off, called a friend and we went out about 2:30 that afternoon. I put him in a blind and was driving over to my blind. I had to cross a deep dry creek and then drive across a big field to get to the blind. As I crossed the creek I could see the blind and noticed the door was open, as I drove closer I seen a person getting out and running towards the dry creek bed. I pulled up, stopped, and hollered at him, he turned and fired in my direction; I rolled out of the truck, hit the ground and placed the crosshairs of my 25-06 between his shoulder blades. I didn’t shoot. I remembered seeing a beige Toyota pick-up along the fence line at a place where a vehicle would not normally be parked; I got back in my truck and drove back to that spot. I hid my truck in some cedars and waited. After about an hour the guy came out walking towards the truck, I stepped out with my pistol and told him to stop. I asked, “Who are you and what are you doing on my property.” He answered, “None of your business.” I popped off a round near his feet and told him to lay his gun down and that he had better start answering questions quick or the next on would be in his direction. He lay his gun down gave me his drivers license, I turned my back for a piece of paper to write on and he took off running in the opposite direction. I crossed the fence, put a knife to the sidewalls of all four tires then drove back and picked my buddy up. We had to drive about five miles to reach a place with a phone where I called the Game Warden; he couldn’t come but sent a deputy sheriff. When the deputy arrived I knew him. I explained what happened. He said “show me where the truck is; I drove back with him following. When we got there the trespasser was at the truck mad as a wet hen, after some questioning he admitted he was on the property deer hunting. He was arrests and charges with trespassing with the intent of poaching. That was a $2000. fine. The deputy also called for a wrecker to haul the truck back to an impound lot, that cost him an additional $1500. I think we made a believer out of him.
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I had a crazy neighbor who often drank a little too much, one afternoon he caught a trespasser on his property, he pulled his gun, disarmed the guy and then chained him to a tree. He took the guys wallet and went back to town. When he went through the wallet he found the guy was a Captain, C-130 pilot from the local airbase. He call the base, got the Wing Commander and told him I have one of your men chained to a tree you will have to come and get him yourself if you want him back. The Commander calls the local law enforcement folks who went to the neighbor’s house and questioned him. He gave them the story and said he wanted the individual arrested for trespassing. He took the cops back out to his place and to the tree where the guys was chained. After some discussion the guy wanted to press charges against my friend for kidnapping. To solve the stalemate they both agreed to drop the charges. I know my friend would likely chain another one up if he caught them but I’d bet the Captain doesn’t go back.
