Poacher attacked female hunter

[Woody Williams]

This is from another website forum and I wanted to get you all's opinions on this. Let's discuss it..

Here's a wild one for y'all. I hunt on my father-in-law's property in NW Indiana, which is full of deer, turkey, coyotes, etc. He has struggled with people trespassing and poaching his deer, and he has a select few people that he allows to hunt on his property. This past weekend, on one of his farms (unfortunately NOT the one I was on) a young lady (mid-twenties) was headed out to her stand before sunrise. My father-in-law knows her and her family, and they all have permission to hunt on his property as they please.

When she got to the foot of her deer stand, however, she realized that someone was already sitting in it! She confronted the poacher, who then came down from the stand, cursing at her and presenting a generally poor picture. Once on the ground, he turned to leave, then quickly spun back and sucker-punched the girl in the face, knocking her down and breaking her nose.

He left immediately afterward, and I have not heard the follow up on whether they have any suspects. I was simply really disappointed to hear such a terrible story, and it certainly makes me wish I had been the one headed out to that stand that morning

[onebentarrow]

If some one has enough fortitude to trespass AND sit in some ones stand I would not put it past them to get violent. And it also appears he is an abuser to hit a female yet alone in the face. I feel for the young lady and hope she gets well soon.this person is not a true hunter.

[lawrencecountyhunter]

She would have been within her rights to shoot him at that point.

[featherduster]

I need to know more before I get involved in this one.

[stevein]

Nov 18, 2014 9:04:00 GMT -5 onebentarrow said:

If some one has enough fortitude to trespass AND sit in some ones stand I would not put it past them to get violent. And it also appears he is an abuser to hit a female yet alone in the face. I feel for the young lady and hope she gets well soon.this person is not a true hunter.

Was it Wisconsin or Minnesota where the guy gunned down a couple of family members that confronted him in one of their tree stands? You never know whom you are dealing with.
So this lowlife went from trespass to assault and possibly assault while carrying a firearm? I hope they get him and nail him to the wall. I would bet he does not live too far from that property.

[esshup]

It could be worse. This happened about 100 miles from where I hunt in Wi. I was up there hunting that year.

news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/11/22_kelleherb_huntershooting/

I could sum it up in one word - respect. If you don't respect other peoples property, what good are you?

[chubwub]

I would also like to know more information before I get completely hopped up, but given the information that is presented here: if that had been me or I had witnessed that, gonads would have been removed and nailed at the bottom of the tree as a warning for all future trespassers. What a complete waste of flesh. I do not envy CO's for having the very scary job of extracting a trespasser like that from a tree stand.

[mulsas]

Just saw that on the other site. That is one of those situations where you hope and pray that they catch that SOB. The punishment will never quite fit the crime, but even still.

I had a broken nose that was packed full for a week, that was about the closest thing to torture I've endured. I couldn't sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time, it sucked.

[kevin1]

In her place I would have shot the SOB, no jury would convict under those circumstances. If I were to find anyone trspassing on my place while I was hunting they wouldn't get the chance to do that to me.

[ms660]

If this actually happened, the only thing I can think to say that if it happened to any female, whether it be my wife or just a female friend I know, my deer season would be over, and my low life, women beater hunting season would have started and in fact it would never end until I filled my tag

[sakorifle]

greetings
sorry folks i don't need to hear anymore information, when a man hits a lady for what ever reason he gives up any right to an excuse.
disgusting regardless of what happened, i only ever seen one man hit a woman and i broke his lip for it, i was banned from school for two weeks which suited me great as i went shooting for the two weeks.
And my parents were proud.
sorry no time for lady hitters, my boys know that.
regards
billy

[jdaily]

Sorry! But had she done the right thing, they wouldn't have to look very hard to find him.

[ridgerunner]

Unreal...what a horrible thing for someone to do..Hope the find this guy he needs some Hillbilly Justice.

[Deleted]

If that had happened on my property and to my wife, that man would be in the grave yard and I'd be in the penitentiary.

[firstwd]

While the initial gut reaction would be for her to shoot the guy for hitting er, we must remember that he too was armed.

[jdaily]

Nov 20, 2014 19:49:40 GMT -5 firstwd said:

While the initial gut reaction would be for her to shoot the guy for hitting er, we must remember that he too was armed.

Hence, shoot first and often, until the theat is gone.

[firstwd]

Nov 20, 2014 20:04:54 GMT -5 jdaily said:

Nov 20, 2014 19:49:40 GMT -5 firstwd said:

While the initial gut reaction would be for her to shoot the guy for hitting er, we must remember that he too was armed.

Hence, shoot first and often, until the theat is gone.

I understand and agree, but shooting immediately after breaking a nose is quite difficult. Plus, if she would have shot him as he was leaving she would be the one facing charges because the threat was removing itself.

[sakorifle]

greetings
i would appeal to all our lady members if you do come across a poacher please remember these people usually don't have any morels or they would not be poachers.
my advice is simple walk away and make a phone call, you are too precious to your family to put yourself in danger, my guess is the poacher will care less about you than you do about him therefore he will shoot first.
i don't want to read one of our ladies has been hurt.
regards
billy