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Might not hurt to spend a few nights in the local bar, you might be suprised what turns up.
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Smells of locals to me as well. Word gets out about who owns land and then they start to figure out the odds of getting caught by the landowner. After bar closing, the odds are pretty thin the landowner is going be around/awake.
I own some ground in Cedar County. Years ago, I happened to go into the local bar where there was a very nice non-typical mounted on the wall. Being a hunter, I asked the barkeep about it. I got the nudge, nudge, wink, wink that it was a local deer. My bet is that it was taken by a well know local poacher who is currently behind bars! When he got busted the DNR raided local businesses seizeing deer heads.
I spent a weekend a month ago building fence as well (when I would have rather been in a bow stand). It wasn't because someone had damaged a fence, it was because people were treating private land as public. There was a "road" worn across the CRP where people had been driving clear to the back of the 90 acres. I was thinking of sharpening up some hay rake teeth and burying them in the wheel tracks, but figured I was likely to step on them as I was walking in while dark.
Sad to say, Pharmer, but I'm afraid it is not going to be the last time
