A good buddy of mine, his grand parents lived way out of town and raised horses, they had a VERY large spread of land. The grand father was a fearless old guy, stormed the beaches of Normandy in WWII, so he said he had lived through hell on earth, there was nothing that really could scare him anymore.
Every summer, early in the year, they would have people come onto their property and camp out, really they were living there for the summer, mostly causing trouble in the nearby small towns, these people we called "Bikers" as they mostly road motorcycles, but my buddies grand dad just called them scum
He would chase them off, they would move it down the road to a different location, as I said, they had several hundred acres of land, most of the land up that valley was theirs. Well one summer a young local girl got raped, on his land. The scum beat it for a week or two, then were back, but this time he was not playing. He walked into their "Camp" one night with his army issue 45 on his belt and his 12 gauge pump shot gun (restricter removed, so it held a full tube of shells) in his hands. The first three shells were full of rock salt, and he was NOT shy in using them.
The story goes he walked into their camp and told them to get off his land, and NOT come back, someone told him to shut up or leave or something, he lowered the shotgun, and fired, and told them that the next two were rock salt as well, but after that, it was all buck shot.
They left and they never came back.
When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
In cases like this, the RCMP are not minutes, but most likely anywhere from half an hour to an hour away, his land, he had a right to protect it, and a right to say who can use it, if force was needed to back this up, then he had the force at hand and was not afraid to use it.
Things are very different living in the country compared to the city, I live in a city of 12 million now, a very clean and polite city, for the most part, but still a big city. We have cops around for sure, and violent crime is rare here, still, even the people in the countryside, here in Japan, deal with a very different set of problems in a very different way than us city folks. What would be totally unacceptable behavior to someone living in a subdivision in the city, may well be considered rational and normal out in the sticks.
All in all Travis, I hope that your problem just stops, I understand the need to protect your own, but, at the same time, I'd hate to see you get in hot water over this.
Be safe, use your head.
Cheers!
