gates torn down, locks cut off...

Seen it firsthand in Cumberland county, big reason I got my carry permit, somebody shot the lock off the front gate with 300wm. had heard a shot down that way and they evidently shot a deer on us and were to lazy to drag it out.
 
J.A.F.O. said:
I got a license check from our local USFS officer coming out of N.Cherokee last year up in Unicoi county. He was an awesome guy. Anyway,told him about guys opening the gate and being up in the woods about 1.75-2 miles. He wasn't too surprised and began to tell me about the problem they have with houndsmen nationwide and especially here in the south. Evidently they pass a skeleton key around to all of the hound clubs and just go onto forest service land whenever they want under the guise of "chasing" their dogs. Didn't really surprise me.
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That's a new one on me. Haven't heard that hound hunting in South Cherokee. Have seen where drunks and party goes tore down a gate or two. Got blamed on us hound hunters of course.
 
timberjack86 said:
That's a new one on me. Haven't heard that hound hunting in South Cherokee. Have seen where drunks and party goes tore down a gate or two. Got blamed on us hound hunters of course.
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Just what I was told by someone whose job is in that stuff everyday. I've ran across bear hunters with dogs on foot once and they were actually extremely nice and invited me along if I wanted as I had a bear tag too. Also,didn't say the houndsmen tore down gates…I said the officer told me that they are known to pass a gate key around and open them at their leisure to chase their dogs. Along with others I will definitely agree that almost all of the destructive behavior is from the good ole boys that we have a plenty of up here.
I asked the obvious about key changes and then he stated the other obvious point of everyone in the USFS keeping up with new key here old key there so a lot are keyed the same. Made sense as he told me.
No offense intended.
 

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