What I am about to post below is from a bowhunting forum I joined and still contribute to during the three years I lived in Massachusetts. No leases there, you either hunt public or private by permission. If public, it was common requirement to park in lots designated for hunters and to show your permit on your vehicle dashboard - things that unmistakably call out that you are a hunter. Well, a lot of folks up there don't take kindly to hunters...
Here is what was posted. Could you imagine this happening in Texas?
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"Sent my brother in law to a spot I hunt and he parked his car behind a large dirt pile kinda hiding it from the road. When he came out at dark he found his car totaled. Must have been a couple of guys because all the glass was shattered and they took boulders and smashed the windshield pillars in and jumped on the roof until it was against the headrests. Cops couldn't do much but call a tow truck.
Had a friend get his valve stems cut with snips and came out to four flats, at least he didn't have to buy tires.
I came out of the woods once and found the ground was painted in red below my drivers door that said F___ Y___ HUNTER, nothing wrong with the truck and never went back.
Sister in laws boyfriend was hunting in Conn. and found his truck keyed from front to back, went back the next day and videotaped the guy doing it again. Turned out to be an old guy who disliked hunters. Took him to court and got truck fixed.
Taking a deer to the check in station had the deer in the back of my truck and someone behind me was honking the horn and flashing the lights for me to pull over, I thought something must be wrong and when I pulled over four young kids got out of the car and they were screaming they were going to kill me like I killed that innocent deer, one kid tried to open the drivers door but I smashed the throttle and left them in a black cloud of diesel smoke.
Now I park in the wide open and don't have any hunting stickers of any kind on my truck, I'm afraid to display my love for hunting for fear of being attacked.
I remember the old days when everyone had a gun rack with guns in the back window of their truck, opening day of pheasant and deer season every truck was full of guys wearing orange hats . Times have changed."
Here is what was posted. Could you imagine this happening in Texas?
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"Sent my brother in law to a spot I hunt and he parked his car behind a large dirt pile kinda hiding it from the road. When he came out at dark he found his car totaled. Must have been a couple of guys because all the glass was shattered and they took boulders and smashed the windshield pillars in and jumped on the roof until it was against the headrests. Cops couldn't do much but call a tow truck.
Had a friend get his valve stems cut with snips and came out to four flats, at least he didn't have to buy tires.
I came out of the woods once and found the ground was painted in red below my drivers door that said F___ Y___ HUNTER, nothing wrong with the truck and never went back.
Sister in laws boyfriend was hunting in Conn. and found his truck keyed from front to back, went back the next day and videotaped the guy doing it again. Turned out to be an old guy who disliked hunters. Took him to court and got truck fixed.
Taking a deer to the check in station had the deer in the back of my truck and someone behind me was honking the horn and flashing the lights for me to pull over, I thought something must be wrong and when I pulled over four young kids got out of the car and they were screaming they were going to kill me like I killed that innocent deer, one kid tried to open the drivers door but I smashed the throttle and left them in a black cloud of diesel smoke.
Now I park in the wide open and don't have any hunting stickers of any kind on my truck, I'm afraid to display my love for hunting for fear of being attacked.
I remember the old days when everyone had a gun rack with guns in the back window of their truck, opening day of pheasant and deer season every truck was full of guys wearing orange hats . Times have changed."
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