I'm not from Co so I'm curious... is private land considered open unless posted?
I pissed a land owner off last weekend. I was hunting in Western Co and was walking up a drainage. I came to a fence, one of several I had crossed in the course of 2 days of hunting. I crossed it and went on.
Well a while later I run in to a guy that turns out to be the landowner. He was not happy with me, which I understand. I tried to explain that I had crossed several fences and he said, "yea, those are for controling grazing areas". So I asked how I was to have known the last one was actually the private property border. He thought I should "know". I unloaded me gun and asked him how he wanted me to get off his property the fastest or least intrusive and he eased up a bit on his anger.
I'm happy to admit I was wrong. I guess I just expected it to be marked as it typically is in Utah. So it got me wondering about the rules/laws in Co.
I'm not faulting the landowner one bit, I understand his anger 100%, and take full responsibility for my tresspass. I just want to avoid that in the future.
sled_guy
I pissed a land owner off last weekend. I was hunting in Western Co and was walking up a drainage. I came to a fence, one of several I had crossed in the course of 2 days of hunting. I crossed it and went on.
Well a while later I run in to a guy that turns out to be the landowner. He was not happy with me, which I understand. I tried to explain that I had crossed several fences and he said, "yea, those are for controling grazing areas". So I asked how I was to have known the last one was actually the private property border. He thought I should "know". I unloaded me gun and asked him how he wanted me to get off his property the fastest or least intrusive and he eased up a bit on his anger.
I'm happy to admit I was wrong. I guess I just expected it to be marked as it typically is in Utah. So it got me wondering about the rules/laws in Co.
I'm not faulting the landowner one bit, I understand his anger 100%, and take full responsibility for my tresspass. I just want to avoid that in the future.
sled_guy