Deer season is coming to an end, and I find that once again, I am having to write to voice my extreme displeasure at our local hunters.

As soon as deer season began in November, I encountered hunters parking along the side of the road near my yard. Their trucks are pulled up into the yard area causing ruts and damage to the grassy spots.

When I came home from church one afternoon early in the season there were two trucks, one parked on the wrong side of the road and the other one on the opposite side. This severely limits navigating an already small country road. Both hunters were standing outside of their vehicles on my property, looking into the woods.

I stopped in the road and told them that it was private property and they did not have permission to hunt. One gentleman, and I use that term loosely, said they weren’t hunting but were getting their dogs. I told them that they did not have permission to run their dogs through my property and to get them quick and go home.

I find hunters to be disrespectful of other people’s property and believe it is OK to hunt and run their dogs wherever and whenever they want. Sorry, but if you have not asked permission from the property owner, then don’t run your dogs through their land, simple as that. When you confront them, they curse at you and quickly become obnoxious as if they are entitled to hunt anywhere they want.

When homes started going up around me, I thought this hunting issue would have stopped, but with the younger generation now coming up, it has started again with an even a less respectable group of young people.

I worked hard to buy my home and land, and I want to spend the rest of my life in peace and quiet all year round and not be tormented and tortured by rude hunters. I’m getting up in years, and I don’t need to be upset and disrespected by anyone.

- Susan Cope, Appomattox