White Oak
5 year old buck +
I've owned my land for 20 years , and lived on it since 2003 . I've had three encounters with trespassers in that time...but have also had a couple of blurry trail pictures of guys walking...and found a empty shot gun shell under my stand, so might of missed a few trespassers . The landowner next to me has 50 acres , and allows two guys to hunt it. The one guy has been hunting there 7 years and is very respectful and helps take care of the land for the elderly owners. The owners have also allowed a "kid" to hunt there the last 3 or 4 years , they seem to think he is gods gift to the world....I believe he has the wool pulled over their eyes. This Kid tries to tell the guy who has been there 7 years , what days he can hunt there, and what stands he can hunt in , plus he is bringing in everybody and their mother to hunt over there . He has a ladder stand the with of a logging road away from the property line maybe 15 feet directly looking into my property , and had a ground blind 10 feet from the property line with the main window facing my land. Granted there are no laws stating how far a stand needs to be away from the property line...BUT to me 10 to 15 feet and DIRECTLY FACING into a neighbors land is ridiculous and looks like he plans to shoot onto my land . While I have one stand near the property line it is 100 % facing into my land, and to me that's how it should be.
Anyway since 2003 , I put up 3 stands Every year that are visible from the neighboring property. The kids ladder stand has been 40 yards or so from one of my stands. Then This Monday I noticed he put another stand within 50 yards of another one of my stands. Monday I was out there putting my stand back up in the tree it has been in every year since 2003, he happened to drive up to his stand and cut some shooting lanes. After a while he must of heard or noticed me and called me over. Mind you this is the first time I have ever met or spoke with him. First thing out of his mouth was He wanted to exchange phone numbers so we can coordinate when we will be in our stands. I was Like No Man I own this property and my stands have been in these trees since 2003 , I'm not checking with anybody to see if I can hunt a stand on my own property. He didn't like that. I then said I dont put blinds 10 feet from the property line with the main shooting window directly facing the neighbors land....He acted like he wasn't planning on shooting my way, then says I saw where you put a trail camera looking right at it...Well he must of got the point, because the blind was moved a week or so later lol. Then he made a comment that he saw me driving my four wheeler , I guess while he was hunting and I got the impression he didn't like that. Yes once a week, or every other week I do drive around and check trail cams or look for trespassers , I guess he thinks I should text him whenever I step foot on my land. THEN he started hinting around he wanted permission to track and retrieve game on my land...I told him to ask at the house, like I ask at the landowners house on the land he's hunting.
Do you think this kid has nerve asking me to coordinate when I hunt my OWN STAND on MY property ? especially after he puts his stands in sight of Mine . I also don't trust him as far as I can throw him , and in life and 9 times out of 10 my gut feeling about someone is usually correct
Anyway since 2003 , I put up 3 stands Every year that are visible from the neighboring property. The kids ladder stand has been 40 yards or so from one of my stands. Then This Monday I noticed he put another stand within 50 yards of another one of my stands. Monday I was out there putting my stand back up in the tree it has been in every year since 2003, he happened to drive up to his stand and cut some shooting lanes. After a while he must of heard or noticed me and called me over. Mind you this is the first time I have ever met or spoke with him. First thing out of his mouth was He wanted to exchange phone numbers so we can coordinate when we will be in our stands. I was Like No Man I own this property and my stands have been in these trees since 2003 , I'm not checking with anybody to see if I can hunt a stand on my own property. He didn't like that. I then said I dont put blinds 10 feet from the property line with the main shooting window directly facing the neighbors land....He acted like he wasn't planning on shooting my way, then says I saw where you put a trail camera looking right at it...Well he must of got the point, because the blind was moved a week or so later lol. Then he made a comment that he saw me driving my four wheeler , I guess while he was hunting and I got the impression he didn't like that. Yes once a week, or every other week I do drive around and check trail cams or look for trespassers , I guess he thinks I should text him whenever I step foot on my land. THEN he started hinting around he wanted permission to track and retrieve game on my land...I told him to ask at the house, like I ask at the landowners house on the land he's hunting.
Do you think this kid has nerve asking me to coordinate when I hunt my OWN STAND on MY property ? especially after he puts his stands in sight of Mine . I also don't trust him as far as I can throw him , and in life and 9 times out of 10 my gut feeling about someone is usually correct
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