Bringing this back up. I'd love to see the no baiting rule started in Kentucky. My property has fizzled into an absolute ghost town. I've had one deer sighting in the last week. Not many on cameras either. I have one doe that is a semi-regular. My old fields were good earlier, but not the...
Are you sure he is hunting the bigger piece of property without permission? If not, I'd start by finding that out. If it turns out, he is in fact, trespassing, I'd let the landowner he's trespassing on decide how to handle that.
I was off a little. I would have about 8 acres to legally hunt on my 50 acres. I hope that law doesn't come here. Some years, we never rifle hunt. We've only killed 2 deer with rifles off of here, but would hate being told I can't shoot a rifle on my land safely.
I've seen it grow like that, but usually, you're not putting out more than they can eat in a day or two. They'll usually ride back through to feed a lane before it's hunted, sometimes right before.
I would think shrubs would maybe even block shot opportunities right there. I'd sink a tree or post with a vine/branch/rope scrape attached pointing towards your stand to present a broadside or quartering away shot. Or, use some other attractant like a water hole. Something that will make them...