the first year I hunted in 2018, I ran into a not so nice man that told me his property was just over there. I said I know I have a plat book. He continued on, telling me he was sick of people trespassing and he had snares up all along his property line and if my dog went over there "he might disappear". He was on a 4 wheeler, I had just gotten out of my truck, and started hunting south on state land, he went back out onto the dirt road and headed south doing donuts in the road parallel to me. I could just see the road and could see his 4 wheeler doing donuts. I carefully hung up my blaze orange hat and vest, leaned my unloaded shotgun against a tree, I almost tied my dog up there, but I was more afraid of not finding my dog than losing a shotgun and vest and hat. I was so mad I couldn't think straight, I could of left my dog there and could of found him with his beeper collar/locater on. Anyways, I snuck over there and tried to get pictures of him doing donuts on the road, he literally did donuts for a half mile to harass me while hunting. I headed back, it was probably 75 yards to my clothes and gun. It took me a while to find them, which is hard to believe, I headed back just a little off course, after going a hundred yards I went north, then headed back towards the road and found them. In Michigan harassing a hunter can result in a $500.00 fine, I did not know any better back then or I would of turned him in, the pictures didn't show much, the donuts in the road did.
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