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A couple of buddies and I decided to take a trip this year for duck opener. We headed west from NDSU a couple of hours and found a pretty sweet hotel with four single beds to stay in for $65 a night. So we packed the trailer and headed out Friday afternoon so we could scout and be ready in the morning. After having a great hunt Saturday morning, (4 man limit of greenheads and geese by 9:00am), we scouted again Saturday night and found another field with geese and ducks feeding. Driving around this six-section piece of land we determined that a bean field on the edge of the road was posted but the stubble wheat field that the birds were feeding on in the middle of this piece of land was fair game to hunt. We returned this morning, set up and started shooting our birds. As I left my blind to pick up some ducks I see a truck plow thru our decoys and continue to do figure eights inside the entire 10dz full body duck and goose spread. He never stopped to talk other than yelling at us for being on posted land. All four of us were standing there in shock. Mowing down some 4 dz geese and another dozen mallards, a finisher (which I just bought this year and contained a thermos, my blind bag and a few boxes of shells and not even to mention the guy had no idea there wasn't a person in it), a mojo and some floater ducks, by the way almost killing my friends golden retriever. He left as quickly as he appeared, we ran to the truck to pick up our gear, not before taking some 50 pictures and left. We called the local C/O and he forwarded the call to the sheriff who came out and assessed the situation. We brought him to the field to find out if it had been legally posted. He determined that it had been, but he totally understood where we were coming from and said it was an honest mistake and knew we hadn't done it on purpose. NOW WHAT??? Do we press charges for the $1000+ in damage but risking a $500 fine for trespassing? We told the sheriff not to do anything and let us think the situation over. This guy had no right, I don't care if I was trespassing or not to destroy our gear in that fashion. This was completely out of line. It was an honest mistake and I'm sorry. I have never been accused of trespassing before and you can bet I will never again. There is a right way to go about things and a wrong way. I want your opinions …
This was only some of our stuff, still missing a few cracked FFD's

This was only some of our stuff, still missing a few cracked FFD's