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KBCraig
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swiven wrote:I don't know much about the property law in Texas, but I think it's outrageous to just go shoot whatever you feel like on someone else's property. If I were the landowner, I'd be very upset too. And, honestly, if it were my land, I'd want to press charges.

I can't even express how astonished I am that the author of this post was surprised that the landowner was upset. Things must be very different where he is from.
They are, as he already explained a couple of times.

I understand, having grown up in western Arkansas, where we were surrounded by 1.3 million acres of National Forest. Realizing there's virtually no "public land" in Texas was a bit of a shocker. (Except for CoE land, that is, which is a whole different animule compared to USFS. The forest service only asks three things: don't cut any trees; don't start any fires; clean up your trash.)

He said he came from Utah, where you can drive out in the country and start shooting, because it's all BLM land. I would imagine you could pull off the side of the road, pick a direction and start walking, and not encounter a fence before dying of exposure.

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Did you pick up your trash? If you left behind the spent shotgun shells, then you would've contributed to "hardware disease" if the landowner had cattle. Hardware disease is caused when a bovine ingests a relatively heavy and sharp object. The object falls to the floor of the rumen and is pushed forward into the reticulum. The reticulum is one of the compartments in the bovine stomach, and its function is not well understood. However, the contractions of the reticulum force the object into the peritoneal cavity where it initiates inflammation. Now with that explained, cattle tend to eat shotgun shells thinking that they are range cubes. If I was the landowner and you left behind trash and broken bottle, I probably would've kicked your butt then called the cops.
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