Boundary Line Warriors

[T-Max]

I think the big difference in some of this is the desire to be neighborly. In my case, it is an outfitter and not the neighbor. My neighbors are great and we would have a meaningful conversation about it. Our problem is an outfitter and he lacks the desire to be neighborly, generally speaking. At the end of the day, I know he is legal in what he is doing. I can certainly express my frustration at the least. And if he needs to track a deer, he knows to bring the game warden with him. No need to call us first because the answer is no unless he has the warden with him.


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[b116757]

I don’t get to excited about anything the neighbors do it’s better for my blood pressure.

 

[Spike_Horn_Shooter]

This is like the Reddit sub - “Am I the Asshole?”

Most of my stands are highly visible from the property line. But it’s my only and best access unless I wanted to come in from the food plots in the AM.

I have a talking relationship with one neighbor, who owns 400+ acres and a really good relationship with another neighbor that owns the adjoining 160. I do more food plotter / habitat stuff.

I have two blinds 20 yards off the property line. It’s kind of the way my property is laid out. I can access along the property line, but it needs a south wind and is kind of intrusive.

I am thinking of moving one that can be moved, just too not look like such an asshole. Going to more hang-on which are less noticeable, and maybe an airtight blinds deep in the cover.

 

[Bszweda]

They can put a stand where ever they want on their property. I have no problem with it. I have a few stands on my line because it makes sense for me. If they setup close to me so be it.

 

[bwoods11]

They can put a stand where ever they want on their property. I have no problem with it. I have a few stands on my line because it makes sense for me. If they setup close to me so be it.

Definitely can, things to watch for . Trimmed shooting lanes on your side opposite the stand, cut fences by ladder stands, direction the stand faces .

I’ve had all three come into play on a few different properties. Fence sitters are pretty common, I’ve never confronted any of them … but I did hinge cut the area where the shooting lanes were cut !

 

[Bill]

but I did hinge cut the area where the shooting lanes were cut !

I hinge cut in an old woods road that ended at the gate on the neighbors place with a box blind 10 yards out in the field. They can hunt anywhere on their land they want but can't use my old road as a shooting lane.

 

[Telemark]

I access my property along the lines, and I hunt the interior. My nearest stand is about 100 yards from the nearest property line. The next closest is over 200 yards from a line.

The neighbors hunt within 30 yards of the line and grt pissy with me and my group. I think they are ridiculous and unreasonable for getting pissy. None of them need to hunt the line, they're just trying to take advantage.
In Ontario, I'm allowed to keep deer that run onto my property and die, and I absolutely will. The group I hunt with always has tags they're happy to fill.

 

[Telemark]

I am sympathetic to people that need to hunt lines. A friend of mine in Ontario had a neighbor poaching on his land who then proceed to argue with him about who owned the land. My friend spent several thousand dollars having the lines surveyed and cut and put up signs. Well, guess where the deer started travelling. So if they want to see deer, they have to hunt the lines. The clearings also give the best shooting lanes.

Lucky for him, it turns out the neighbor who was poaching wasn't and adjacent neighbor, and the adjacent property owners don't hunt near the lines, if they hunt at all.

Where I hunt in Ohio, there's a guy who bought a cheap piece of land that had been logged. I think it's about 9 acres. He hunted it constantly, and basically had to hunt within 50 yards of his lines because the interior was a dead zone. I hunted an adjacent 40 acre parcel, and I focused on the opposite side of the property from his line. Occasionally, I would still hunt toward him when I knew he was there, and if I saw a doe I would try to push it over to him. I Remember at least once he shot a yearling doe that I bumped and then pushed toward him. His place has grown up since then and seems to be a decent rut spot. I'm happy for him, and I hope he has bagged some nice deer. He seemed to be a dedicated and eager hunter who was making do with what he could afford. And I was hunting a great parcel that wasn't even mine or my family's.

 

[gjs4]

I don’t get to excited about anything the neighbors do it’s better for my blood pressure.

Mind starting and pinning a thread on the technique for this?

 

[Westwind]

This is like the Reddit sub - “Am I the Asshole?”

Most of my stands are highly visible from the property line. But it’s my only and best access unless I wanted to come in from the food plots in the AM.

I have a talking relationship with one neighbor, who owns 400+ acres and a really good relationship with another neighbor that owns the adjoining 160. I do more food plotter / habitat stuff.

I have two blinds 20 yards off the property line. It’s kind of the way my property is laid out. I can access along the property line, but it needs a south wind and is kind of intrusive.

I am thinking of moving one that can be moved, just too not look like such an asshole. Going to more hang-on which are less noticeable, and maybe an airtight blinds deep in the cover.

You are not the asshole! You are the landowner. You are hunting your hard earned property that way because of the way it is laid out. You are attempting to improve your property.

Assholes never even consider the idea of how your actions affects someone else. You have.

 

[Westwind]

Okay- so I posted my story about a beef that got me wound up and my less than stellar reaction to it!

Here is one that worked out better.

On the other side of my property is about 160 acres that is a really nice hunting property. The owner tends to allow one person to hunt at a time. There has been turnover with the hunters over the years there but never had much problem with any of them.

In September a couple years ago I found a double hang-on set up on the other side of the fence that is actually on my ground. Due to terrain, the fences are not directly on the property line.

I reached out to the landowner. I asked him to have the hunter call me. He did. I explained to the hunter the situation. I told him I’d like to meet him at the stand with the survey and show it to him which he agreed to. I showed him the survey. I asked him to take down the stands, which he did. The young guy was apologetic, which was unnecessary because there was no way for him to know the fences weren’t the property lines. After the season so as not to screw up anyone’s hunting, my wife and I found the survey pins and marked the property lines.

I ended up befriending this young hunter. We exchange trailcam pics and I recently helped him set his box blind. We have walked the neighbors ground and discussed stand sites and habitat improvement ideas and that benefits both of us. Really enjoyable.

Wish it always worked out like this.

 

[jsasker007]

Mind starting and pinning a thread on the technique for this?

1000 mg of FUKITOL.

 

[PatinPA]

I have a couple of stands right on my property line. Now two of them are along the neighbor that doesn't hunt. Both are bow only and set up so that you can only shoot onto my property. Due to the terrain that's the just the way the deer travel. I've tried to manipulate my land to get the deer to travel more into the interior but it hasn't worked so far. I did move my dad's rifle stand. It was near the property line because the former neighbor allowed us to shoot onto his property. That piece was sold and the new owner put a trail in right on his side of the border and road his sxs down it an hour before dark on opening day of rifle season. Point taken, and I moved it more into the interior of my property. Note too that I have long suspected this person of trespassing onto and through my property to hunt the non-hunting neighbors but I have yet to catch him. I'm hoping now that I have cell cameras, this gets taken care of.

 

[jsasker007]

I have neighbors on one end of my property and as long as they are hunting I really can't hunt that part of my property. I try to make some movement to push deer their way when I can't beat them to the stand on opening day so they hurry up and fill their tags and I can use the property again. They shoot anything that walks so I try to get them filled out and gone ASAP. Then I can use that end of my property with no one else around. If I can't beat them I'll get them tagged out and gone.

 

[swat1018]

I use to let this stuff eat me up. In 2019 a neighbors grandson (early 20s) shot a 200" deer from a tree on my line, I'm pretty sure. 3 weeks ago he shot an 8 point that is going to gross over 170, I told him BS till I measured it myself. He shot it 20' from my line and it died on me. I helped him recover it and am happy for him. Otherwise, I could be a dick and miserable about it -- don't see the point. It's just a deer...

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Free access around the property lines without good deer cover seems to be one of the harder characteristics to find in a property.

There was a rectangle 80a piece with 20ish acres of recently logged trees in the middle surrounded by open row crop that was vastly under priced pop up a year or 2 ago on the MLS. It was gone within a couple hrs. Ugly property but that had all the makings of a blank canvas that a guy could make great. Where direct neighbors and line sitters would be a non-issue and you could make your own little haven in the middle.

 

[Mortenson]

Unless there are prearranged circumstances, I think line sitters suck. Have the decency to stay 40 or 50 yards off the line.

 

[Bill Loser]

I use to let this stuff eat me up. In 2019 a neighbors grandson (early 20s) shot a 200" deer from a tree on my line, I'm pretty sure. 3 weeks ago he shot an 8 point that is going to gross over 170, I told him BS till I measured it myself. He shot it 20' from my line and it died on me. I helped him recover it and am happy for him. Otherwise, I could be a dick and miserable about it -- don't see the point. It's just a deer...

Very well stated, it's just a deer.

 

[Bill Loser]

You can not like or agree with what your neighbors do on their land , but at the end of the day is it really worth the headaches and angst ? Not to mention possibly burning bridges.

 

[Native Hunter]

My neighbor (and relative) to the south doesn’t hunt but he lets a guy hunt. This guy basically drives around in an ATV waiting for a deer to run across the field

The other day I saw he had put a corn pile about 20 yards from the line on the neighbor. I understand that, but what I don’t understand is why he came over to the fence and set a big ceramic bowl across the fence about a foot on my property. I don’t know what that could possibly be for. Pic shown below. Whatever it is for it doesn’t seem to be working for him.

Any ideas what he was trying to do?