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Put up the local sanctioned no trespassing type signs per your local county sheriff.
For fun, you could try putting some extra fear by adding signage stating "former military arsenal testing grounds beware un-exploded ordnance". The problem is most of the trespassers wouldn't understand it, and would likely be as stupid as the UK guy who 'apparently' thought the ordnance 'he found' was a suppository.
Or a number of years ago, the guy who went into a marked minefield to have a picnic. Hit a mine, they had to evac him out with a Blackhawk, and just as he got up to the whirling chopper, slipped and fell back in again......after that, it wasn't a rescue anymore. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...52B44B20090312
I am a little apprehensive about trail cams because even I don't go down in the preserve acreage. Apprehensive about placing them, apprehensive about replacing them if damages, stolen, or maintenance.
What about using drones?
Why are you apprehensive about going out in your own acreage? If you're worried about falling, take a friend with you or your cell phone or an alerting device. It's YOUR land. Geesh.
Why are you apprehensive about going out in your own acreage?
Rattlesnakes, copperheads, fire ants, feral hogs, wasps, black widows, scorpions, skunks, coyotes. I haven't seen the last one, coyotes, but I have seen silver and red foxes. I don't consider deer that hostile.....but running into a Doe with Fawns would not be a good thing.
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If you're worried about falling, take a friend with you or your cell phone or an alerting device. It's YOUR land. Geesh.
Well, there is the very big catch. Cell phone comms are, quite frankly, lousy on the ranch. I doubt very much I could get a distress call out.
My best bet would be..........to carry a .22 rifle with lots of loaded magazines and fire off 3 rounds, a minute apart. That and use my whistle to send off an SOS......lots of them in both cases.
A friend on expedition seems like a good notion....but not that easy to accomplish.
Rattlesnakes, copperheads, fire ants, feral hogs, wasps, black widows, scorpions, skunks, coyotes. I haven't seen the last one, coyotes, but I have seen silver and red foxes. I don't consider deer that hostile.....but running into a Doe with Fawns would not be a good thing.Well, there is the very big catch. Cell phone comms are, quite frankly, lousy on the ranch. I doubt very much I could get a distress call out.
My best bet would be..........to carry a .22 rifle with lots of loaded magazines and fire off 3 rounds, a minute apart. That and use my whistle to send off an SOS......lots of them in both cases.
A friend on expedition seems like a good notion....but not that easy to accomplish.
Heavy boots, snake chaps, and a gun. If you're worried about a fall, get a medical alert/fall alert device - they work anywhere in the U.S. They're not just for old people.
Heck, I've had black widows the size of marbles come out from under my mulch bags after they've been on the ground for a good while. I'm 72 but I stepped on and killed them just wearing Skechers.
Rattlesnakes, copperheads, fire ants, feral hogs, wasps, black widows, scorpions, skunks, coyotes. I haven't seen the last one, coyotes, but I have seen silver and red foxes. I don't consider deer that hostile.....but running into a Doe with Fawns would not be a good thing.Well, there is the very big catch. Cell phone comms are, quite frankly, lousy on the ranch. I doubt very much I could get a distress call out.
My best bet would be..........to carry a .22 rifle with lots of loaded magazines and fire off 3 rounds, a minute apart. That and use my whistle to send off an SOS......lots of them in both cases.
A friend on expedition seems like a good notion....but not that easy to accomplish.
If the wild animals are that abundant and dangerous, trespass risk is not high. Skunks and coyotes are not menaces.
If the wild animals are that abundant and dangerous, trespass risk is not high. Skunks and coyotes are not menaces.
As far as skunks go, comme ce, comme ca. Will it kill you or put you in so much pain? No, probably not. Will it make you so mad to take revenge on a human (for a mistake that could have been avoided if one would take responsibility for their own actions)? We-ll..........
Coyotes? I don't know except not to have one's pets outside.
In any event, we are talking about non country people who may do foolish things out in the country, not believing what they are engaging in. I will admit that I am no expert, even a babe in the woods on many things, but I at least know that skunks aren't "Flower".......live and let live.
Rattlesnakes, copperheads, fire ants, feral hogs, wasps, black widows, scorpions, skunks, coyotes. I haven't seen the last one, coyotes, but I have seen silver and red foxes. I don't consider deer that hostile.....but running into a Doe with Fawns would not be a good thing.Well, there is the very big catch. Cell phone comms are, quite frankly, lousy on the ranch. I doubt very much I could get a distress call out.
My best bet would be..........to carry a .22 rifle with lots of loaded magazines and fire off 3 rounds, a minute apart. That and use my whistle to send off an SOS......lots of them in both cases.
A friend on expedition seems like a good notion....but not that easy to accomplish.
Perhaps you'd be better off in a condominium in the city if your so afraid of your own property. And honestly you should make sure a neighbor doesn't have tree stands and is hunting out there.
Nothing you mentioned precludes regular folks from venturing forth into the woods. All of the risks combined don't even approach the risk you take driving to the grocery store.
Wasps are the most dangerous thing and there just as common around the house as they are the woods. They kill 10 times as many people in a year as snakes, and your chance of dying from one is 1 in 5 million.
Skunks? I've known a LOT of dogs that have gotten sprayed, but never a person, unless they were trapping them. Fire Ants? Irritating, but washed off in a shower and a benadryl will alleviate any symptoms.
Coyotes and Foxes? Dangerous to small animals, not people.
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