Problems with illegal shooting on private property

Poaching is becoming more of a problem for landholders, hunters and anyone wanting to enjoy the great out doors. Not only is it illegal and gives a bad reputation to hunters but it's a DEADLY game where someone unsuspecting could be injured or worse because of these knuckle heads who want to seek around the bush, trespass and use firearms illegally.
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[@CrazyLakla]

We have had issues like this on our property. Unless they come clean immediately with a very believable story, we call the law and have them deal with the issues. Word gets around that we don't hesitate. Has solved a lot of problems.

[@antonhuman8446]

Must be cruel to be kind!

[@theebigda]

Places to hunt are getting harder and harder to come by, unless you have a bunch of money to hunt on private land, game farms, etc. It's becoming like old England where the nobility own all the land and no one can hunt for wild game.

[@mattyreardon3593]

We have the same problem in Flowerdale. Constantly finding compound bow arrows and dead animals. It's a nightmare.

[@nicholaschriss1706]

You were very kind and reasonable with that bloke, I hope he got the message and doesn't do it again

[@Bryan-qp3ts]

Professionally handled! Nice work guys ! Keep up the good work !

[@freshairfetish245]

Glad yous caught up with him.. love your guys work!

[@aussiedrifter]

Good on ya fellas, back in the late 1980s I use to go shooting on the weekends with my best mate Col & we would always go in & have a yarn with the property owner & always, I mean always ask for permission as well as ask if there was any particular places he would prefer we did not hunt in. I think it was called being polite & respectful, which these days is very thin on the ground. Anyway with some of the owners they would invite us back again, especially if they were having rabbit or fox problems & life was good. I miss those years, unfortunately today these poachers are a real lot of fair-dinkum bastards & wombats as far as I am concerned. Anyway Fellas keep-up the good work your vision of what the future could be like is one worth sticking with. Steve.

[@marciebalme588]

well done, good video , I often go out with my Husband and several times we have come across trespassers spotlighting at night time

[@mickandcharli9942]

Got the same problems down here in Tasmania . We treat em abit different here tho

[@davegriffiths2256]

As someone trying to set up a legitimate law abiding hunting and pest control business it’s infuriating to see so many people doing illegal things. It makes it so hard to get the required licenses and permits, permission access and trust of landowners, all because some dickhead with a gun has to shoot stuff out the car window on someone’s property and such. So frustrating. Good on you for doing the right thing guys.

[@Bandit-10-4]

Is it illegal to shoot poachers ??? Just asking it might be OK 👍 😳

[@therickpound]

Mate we have the same problems with poaching buggers, now the land owners don’t want legit hunters..

[@silverbackanimal7215]

If there is a gate I ask for Permission, if there’s no gate I go in because I love hunting

[@paulworth6440]

When I was a young bloke I was out Cobar way, know contacts and fox skins were worth plenty. So foolishly we started spotting off the roadside. A cocky came behind, ask me if I was spotlight, I replied yes, He said you know it's illegal don't ya, Yep. He replied ,can you shoot. Yeah. Well follow me back home and If you shoot a goat for my dogs I'll let on my joint . Not only did he have one , but three properties all over 35,000 acres, we camped in the shearers quarters and had three properties too shoot off. Made a quid and before we left , and we were introduce to a few more property owners. So please ask first, you might be surprised.

[@MickP3030]

Doing a great job mate, we have similar issue in the Pilliga.. Keep it up

[@Nathan-ed2jx]

My father in law has same problem, but the shooters not hunters leave all the dead animals behind, there just shooting what ever they see, he came back from a weekend away to find over 60 rock wallaby shot dead and left behind.

[@Hassan-lt1ve]

Good work brother keep it up

[@daveybernard1056]

4:30 right. Poachers ruin hunting for everyone.

[@BenoniBen]

Clark the nature of man is to think only of himself. Not about other. Your spot on.

[@Alwaysoutdoorsbushcraft]

Glad I'm in Canada where there's lots of crown land to hunt , this looks like a bunch of bull shit headaches lol

[@clintonscottwalsh]

State of NSW can hunt in state forests as such.

[@offrdskb5113]

Well handled Boys the more you hold these poachers to account the better the rest of the hunting community will be.

[@cococharliematenga4829]

I have a mate who owns 25k acres in central nsw who has the same problems with pig hunters who cut fences, drive through his property, don't respect the rules of the land and think it's ok to follow their dogs on trackers through private property . What makes it worse is that they dont even harvest the meat once they kill the animals, no respect at all to the landowners and animals. When i last looked it was illegal to walk onto anyones land uninvited. I know it pigs but where do you draw the line with these mongrels. Gives all the decent fellas out there a bad name too.

[@malcontender6319]

Twenty five thousand acres? Greedy.

[@Bowenhunt]

Well done gents! Poachers are the scum of the hunting society. Exactly what you have discussed, landowner’s/managers get the shits with trespassing, property damage, spotlighting and headless carcasses and then the real hunters get turfed from properties they may have hunted for decades! Keep up the good work mate. 🏹

[@jribeye1818]

Where are you guys at? Do you do camp / hunt trips for people?

[@oldschool9932]

The poaching rapscallion is fortunate he ran up on you gentlemen. Someone else might not have been so amicable.

[@gordondunn3694]

Right now if he did tell you the truth what would of been the consequence!!!!!? I know for a fact use have poached in the past The older bloke has poached in the past out of the threedo-gooders 20 years back you done it all the time and you know you did!!!!!

[@ryanmacgilchrist8312]

It's a darn shame because it always only takes 1 idiot to ruin all the fun for the honest people out there.

[@johntiller4327]

If you fish illegally and the authorities catch you, Let say you were fishing (hunting) without a licence they can take your boat and car and all your fishing gear and never return them. This rule should be applied to illegal hunting. But National Park have employed workers that have no brains. I was watching a hunting video where the hunters where given access to hunted feral deer in a National Park. But if they came across any other feral animals they were not allow to hunted them. What is the reasoning behind that decision. So why not hunt in National Park when you have complete fool managing these Parks. By the way the National Park is the true reason for the summer of fire. decades of neglect and just allowing the bush to turn like a vegan arm pit cause the destruction of the east coast Flora and Forna.

[@offthehook243]

I don’t condone poaching, but if there was more public access to good hunting this simply wouldn’t happen. We are all out there for the same reason.

[@rufusmedrano2962]

Unfortunately it happens here in the states too

[@mattwalker6305]

Any outcome to this incident that you can report on here Clark? Curious what punishment or fine if any given?

[@benwhiteley8595]

They caught the guy and arrested him, it was on the news. kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@ch34pskate16]

Lay out spike strips at all the entrances to your property. The price of tires and a tow will make them think twice before trespassing on your property again. Word will get out.

[@ellertorresiii1081]

Good job handling the perpetrators mates! Retired from Pahrump Nevada 🇺🇸

[@jesseblackburn8437]

A shame men can't act like men after getting caught and you're civil and give them a chance to be straight with you...a few bad apples ruin the whole basket again! He probably won't be back anytime soon, at least you tried friend! God bless

[@mattkaiser8984]

You’ve got big balls of steel sir.

[@kurtlangeberg1329]

I have the same problem except with tweekers. They used the same excuse. Told them bullshit, ain't no dog out here. Told them to get off my land or I'll bury you here. Never saw them again.

[@oftin_wong]

Do we really need feral deer in the Australian Bush along with all the other feral horrors?

[@straitwayaustralia3431]

Great job mate

[@australianmade2659]

Most of us hunters wish to do the right thing. These clowns ruin it and quite frankly I worry that these are the wrong sort of people to have firearms. It’s a privilege

[@markharding8042]

Take his truck wheels off

[@BarneyGumbl3]

Yeah would have slashed 3 and called the cops and told them where it was

[@waynemensen4252]

Take the wheels off and call law enforcement. Good idea!!

[@fredfordham574]

It's an unfair system that makes criminals out of ordinary folk wanting to enjoy wild game hunting.

[@aaronaaron3003]

Iv had the same problem chasing people illegally spotlighting on my old property (84 acres), I used to just chase them down & yell out basically the same non violent words telling them if they do come out that I would not call the police but if they didn’t I would call the cops & every time it happened to me it worked as most people do not want to lose their firearms license. Had the same issue with people using silenced .22’s without permits but those ones always got reported no chances given when using silenced firearms on private property with no permission.

[@cannasutra1]

Handled it well boys. I probably wouldn't of been so nice.

[@robertfish4052]

i was a passenger with a mate in his car, finished work. going to pub for some cold gold. and some pratt fired a 12 bore through a hedge striking me. the windscreen in 4 places. wipers. and even the inside of the rear window. i got a beer in.

[@powerofone1645]

Risky. He could have been drunk or on drugs etc. Has a gun and used it. Stay safe.

[@50buttfish]

If you ask for permission, they might say YES!

[@pagliaccisghost269]

If I find someone on my property, IF I let them go, they'll be walking out of the woods in their birthday suit. Their belongings, and clothes stay on the property with me.

[@Jakefrc]

If you reported him to the police he could loose his firearms for doing that.

[@idleonlooker1078]

Wouldn't have been a problem if they weren't hunting ILLEGALLY in the first place.

[@bearfootbowhunter3054]

What is this system? I haven't heard anything about it ?

[@paul-up5jy]

You really handle the situation the best you could , these poachers just stuff it up of all off use . I hope what go's around comes around , and nails all these scum bags . Cheers , thanks for all your good work.

[@flaviusbogdan8250]

Whenever you see a vehicle on your property that’s not supposed to be there, make sure you let all the air out the tires so it’ll be there when they cops come to impound it

[@Bandit-10-4]

Is there a law against shooting poachers

[@scottthompson9220]

Have seen it all before in Tassie with poachers shooting fallow deer in the ru t trouble is your dealing with the type of block that doesn’t respect property owners right to choose who he wants on his property and a lot of the time that block has deer on his brain and could not care less how he gets it Dick measures I call them

[@stephenbrown5844]

Really enjoyed that

[@MountainMan_NZ]

Well handled mate

[@gore1]

It looked like an abandoned vehicle to me. I would’ve used it as target practice.

[@davidmillard2236]

Hope the they got what was deserved good job🤙

[@shakergt81]

Darn poachers. They are getting into all places now. I have even come across them over here in Western Australia.

[@clintonscottwalsh]

In QLD we go door knocking to get permission. Just got my game license and R license to hunt in state forests in NSW.

[@atmm89]

I am in Nerang, Gold Coast and we have dozens of dear, showing up every night chewing up my garden, so there is plenty of them around

[@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry]

Not the heritage red deer herd mate. You'll find they are mostly intentionally released Rusa, fallow and chital, not the red deer from the COA

[@atmm89]

@@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry so what, deer is a deer, you are talking about different legs

[@Grumph-jhorm]

If someone was tryna live off the land an they killed with a bow, would that still be illegal? Like they were just surviving.

[@bigblockpop]

You should have taken some parts off his 4WD and waited for the Police to come

[@guttasnipe9171]

Well done fellas, you caught him red handed you should of called the cops had him charged.

[@mattkaiser8984]

Gah… scary stuff…

[@mattsimpson1348]

It happens no matter where you live!

[@texassportsman5880]

This happens frequently with absentee landowners. My father had some acreage in east central Texas about 500 acres. He bought it for his retirement. We would make the four hour trip once a month. Since we weren't there that often it was easy for the locals to trespass on our property to illegally hunt and fish from the two streams that crossed through the land. We confronted them and called the sheriff. They were charged with trespassing and fined for illegally taking game out of season. All charges were suspended. Why? In those sparsely populated areas everyone has known everyone else since elementary school. Many are related by marriage or very close friendships. Once they got to know my Dad they finally stopped trespassing. It's not easy for an outsider to be accepted when he's able to buy up land they consider to be their birthright. Many have sold their ancestral lands due to back taxes and other financial setbacks. To them the land is still rightfully theirs and they consider anyone else as the real trespassers.

[@bhermon265]

👍

[@nigelbase1196]

The enemy is always within....☹️

[@henryparent1157]

That happen he to .we called a toe truck

[@biggils8894]

As a deer I’m at my wits end at the complete crap on what’s going on also

[@userfake8092]

This seems really dumb. Do you have adequate fencing and signage in place? I'm just saying if i was on a drive or whatever and some people tried to block in my car and talk tough then claimed I was on their privet property, yet i crossed no fences or adequate signs... Well I have 0 remorse about acting decisively and abruptly in self defense.

[@ourfamilychannel4458]

I hear you bro

[@troymeredith9528]

What a Wally,why wouldn’t you get permission first,,if you get permission ,the owner probably give you information on where to start looking,the other problem with poaching is if there’s already some one else their shooting ,you might end up getting shot because they don’t know your there.respect to the land holder first.

[@bluestormcloud791]

When a child is born, all of its needs must be met. Food, water, clothing cleaning. Some people never grow out of the stage where their needs must be provided by other people. They are forever children. I hope they have at least learned to clean their own bums.

[@mattyreardon3593]

He hid in the bush and got a GPS location for his stashed rifle. It will be close by.

[@waggtech4883]

Seems hunting down under is a Donnybrook. You’d never like the regulations in the states where all game is government property.

[@BushCampingTools]

You let him off easy mate. But lucky it wasn't drugs.

[@in4merATP]

54 poachers have seen this video so far..

[@stevet8121]

You should have called Crocodile Dundee. He would have fixed that poacher.

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

Maybe he's bogged..I have spotlighters here and it pisses me off..😡😡😡

[@gregwells8764]

If its happened before and it keeps happening ... then maybe its time to up the defence ? first thing is take the vehicle , leave them to walk out.

[@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry]

Good way for someone to go to jail, and it won't be them. Landholders everywhere I go feel they have the answer... kill all the deer, pigs, goats etc and the problem goes away. We shoot ourselves in the foot

[@joshjameskiwibushman]

did he find his dog?

[@riamriam6758]

Only pretend to turn the camera off. The motion of putting down is enough to trick the stupid. It’s worth every second the longer it stays on, at least capturing audio.

[@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157]

You got to laugh a little bit to catch the cagey bastard as frustrating as it is, they make it hard out around this way to. Wish we had a bit of that rain as well.

[@rgthomson100]

What is the underlying reason that they feel they need to poach, is it a lot of money to get the right to shoot, are they so poor they just putting food on the table, i dont know but that reason needs finding out or they will just keep coming back

[@Dan-wo4bx]

Too lazy to go door knocking to find some land to shoot legally is what it boils down too.

[@bondithehun]

red tape and no land to legaly hunt unless you pay 3k to the land owner to take a deer

[@jeffestrada6857]

“Come on out no violence “ totally wrong thing to shout out 👎

[@sampeacock3819]

legend followed through and turned the camera off when he said he would be honest. you expected too much from this weirdo man. Poaching game in Australia isn't just asshole behavior but completely unnecessary too. I always thought it was just dumb beginners, this dude knew wtf he was doing but couldn't just go use that knowledge to hunt legally?!

[@sampeacock3819]

"alot of easier, sustainable ways to do it"

[@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry]

If he had rocked up to our hut, he would have got a cuppa and a feed, had a yarn with us and a place to hunt legally

[@peteodonnell2142]

I know it creates ill feeling, but, I would have let down a couple of his tyres.

[@daves3259]

I guess I was a poacher too. I don’t see the harm in someone performing what is essentially feral animal control, especially if the landholder isn’t making a go of it but rather maintaining feral animals for his own leisurely pursuits. If the hunter is going about his sport in a responsible manner and isn’t damaging property or the environment, then I honestly don’t see the problem. Having said that, the hunter should have been more respectful when summoned, and when you tell someone you won’t call the cops if they come on out to talk with you then you should do the honourable thing and keep your word. There’s nothing more un-Australian than being a dobber. Seems dobbing has become popular these days, sadly.

[@ourfamilychannel4458]

NEVER involve the authorites in this country.

[@jacktattis]

Is this a problem out there ?

[@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry]

Huge problem

[@MsUltrafox]

Common out mate let's talk. The guy comes out and gets shot. End of problem.

[@johnryan909]

Booby traps to disable their vehicles, that will stop them . Fight fire with fire .

[@islanderson691]

You should take there truck and leave a note, go to jail or loose your truck for trespassing

[@Leosarebetter]

Maybe next time his vehicle can catch fire, unexpectedly of course....asking for a friend.

[@craigperry7376]

Remove 2 wheels & his plates, & leave at local cops shop.

[@giovannigiorgio4622]

Im the other side of the coin, I live on the poor side of the tracks. i might have been hunting a bit on crown land, or jump a fence. After mum died i live with my 75 year old father, who has diabetes is recovering from bladder cancer and has Ulcers, among other issues. My local butcher is charging $60kg for lamb.... $50kg for steaks. I want ask you, what do we do? just watch deer and rabbits bouncing around? FERAL animals.... i have NEVER taken stock. Whats your problem? Maybe you need to think about the way you handle hunters and give them the nod to do a bit of hunting, feed there family's. You are so righteous. Do we have to pay you to hunt feral animals on your land? What if old mate shoots a few foxes or cats? is that payment enough? 1 deer for 2 fox? The only leg you really have to stand on is its your land.... YOUR land.... yeah right.... Im as Australian as you mate. If old mate got busted thats his problem.... but when meat is $50 per kg+ maybe you need to talk to the farmers and the abattoirs and the butchers.... not the hunters going for game meat, hunting feral animals to feed there family's. You have not changed me. I will think about heading up the mountain, doing the best i can not to be busted, but doing the best i can to feed me and my own. Such is life. (edit) I dont think its funny i think you need to be more aware of whats actually happening. I dont do it for fun champ i do it for food.

[@bobclark4994]

Too many people prepared to do the wrong thing and ruin it for everyone. I hate weekends coz I know the spotlight cowboys will be out!

[@5T4R3790]

I hope he found his dog /s

[@jerrylansbury9558]

A few questions ? Is this property completely fenced ? If so how are people getting it ? If your working on getting rid of feral hogs why are you broadcasting it ? Why not go in and shoot them ? It dont take that many people to do the job.....and if it is fenced it makes it that much easier to kill them " all " . Why are the license plate being blurred out in this video ? These are the poachers also ? Yes its time for people to grow up......that is the owners of the property !

[@fracturedsouloutdoor1]

bloody grubs...shoulda taken their truck and left em out there lol.

[@jarrodhill9149]

Hang on... arnt deer pests in QLD?

[@peteoburrito920]

Yeah I don’t condone poaching but I’m a passionate hunter that has nowhere to hunt. Not everyone is as lucky as you guys and many others to have places to hunt or be born to land. If there was more public property to hunt there wouldn’t be this problem. And farmers should be given more insensitive to let good people hunt on there property ie not having to take legal responsibility if they were to hurt themselves while hunting

[@ClarkMcGhiesWildCountry]

Spent most of my life gaining hunting opportunities for new hunters mate. Go to the www.theridgegroup.net website and take a long look through the stuff there. Take a look at it with an Akubra on, think like a landowner, think what you would do if you suddenly owned a big property. Would you open the gate to all for free or would you want a sensible system?