Boundary Line Warriors

[Howboutthemdawgs]

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.

Yes. The only reason I have my place if you boil it down is “just a deer”. Like I said do what you want on your place I’ll do what I want on mine. If mine affects you, move further away. If it doesn’t enjoy the scenery.
Here’s another way to look at it. How many of us do strategic food plots, cover, stand placement, etc to protect young deer and gives us a chance at a deer we are after? If your neighbor is parked right on the line, they are essentially a threat to that strategy. If I can establish a strategy that legally makes it to where I keep deer from going to him I’m going to employ it.

 

[Bill Loser]

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?

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Maybe it was a gift offering?

 

[T-Max]

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?

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He probably checks it from time to time hoping you will load it up with some of those delicious apples for him! The horn of plenty!!!


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[BenA]

One of my stands is on a tree that my boundary line fence is on. But, the other side is a road. I have three sides with roads as borders. My other side was bought by a neighbor who is anti-hunting. My closest stand to that border is 70 yards. That just adds to my sanctuary. But, they did build a house on it. Across each of the roads, the properties are heavily hunted.

 

[jsasker007]

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?

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The only thing I can think of is maybe he found it and thought it was yours so he put it back on your property?

 

[Bszweda]

If you don't own a ton of acres the neighbors can really impact you. If they are hunting legally not much you can do. Stressing over it is not going to do any good. If your neighbors suck your best option is probably to move unfortunately. I've had to sell a property cause my neighbor was poaching deer on my property. If they shoot a deer and it runs into your property you have the right to not allow it. That being said there will probably come a time a deer you shoot runs into a neighboring property so it's a double edge sword.

 

[KY wild]

To me it is a big difference on which direction the hunter is facing. If they put a stand on the line and face their land I am Ok but I am not oK when the stand is on the line facing me. They do not want to shoot over their shoulder, so obviously they are hunting my property.

 

[Native Hunter]

Just wait until a few years from now when higher-end thermal drones become more prevalent. A neighbor can literally count the points on every buck on your property and track every move you and the deer make. Even though harassing wildlife is illegal, they could do that and ruin your hunting without you even knowing it. There is no way you would ever be able to prove anything. They can even do it at night when you can't see anything. What I've been told is that it's not illegal to fly over other people's land. No one talks about this much, but it is eventually going to be a big factor in deer hunting and other matters of privacy.

PS - I recently found out that a neighbor brough in one of these high-end drones to look for a deer that had been shot. I talked to someone who basically admitted that they flew over other people's land and that they could go over 2 miles in some places where the communications wasn't blocked by trees.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Just wait until a few years from now when higher-end thermal drones become more prevalent. A neighbor can literally count the points on every buck on your property and track every move you and the deer make. Even though harassing wildlife is illegal, they could do that and ruin your hunting without you even knowing it. There is no way you would ever be able to prove anything. They can even do it at night when you can't see anything. What I've been told is that it's not illegal to fly over other people's land. No one talks about this much, but it is eventually going to be a big factor in deer hunting and other matters of privacy.

PS - I recently found out that a neighbor brough in one of these high-end drones to look for a deer that had been shot. I talked to someone who basically admitted that they flew over other people's land and that they could go over 2 miles in some places where the communications wasn't blocked by trees.

I’ve been beating this drum for years. I have first hand experience. Don’t worry I don’t need to fly over your property. I can stare at you from a mile away 600’ high and you wouldn’t have a clue.

I watched deer this am on a drone. Still bothers me (not on my place, a high fence so I don’t mind as much).

 

[BenA]

The drone thing is scary. A good bit of my property is old field type stuff. Someone could just fly over and run deer towards them or off of me if they wanted. I might need to carry a shotgun around. I wonder if any FAA laws would be broken if I shot it down? They would have proof if they had a camera recording back to them. The more I think about it, the more worried I am. I need to look into those droneshield handheld countermeasure guns.

 

[Mortenson]

We had some plots that were pretty hot that turned cold for a few yrs. I wonder if someone has been droning them. Of course this was before ehd devastation. It'd be pretty risky for a guy to sabotage someone's property, knowing it would end relations forever. But some guys are risk on I guess.

 

[Native Hunter]

We had some plots that were pretty hot that turned cold for a few yrs. I wonder if someone has been droning them. Of course this was before ehd devastation. It'd be pretty risky for a guy to sabotage someone's property, knowing it would end relations forever. But some guys are risk on I guess.

And even someone with a cheap drone could easily do that. I've heard people talk about how they have seen them clear out a field of deer.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

And even someone with a cheap drone could easily do that. I've heard people talk about how they have seen them clear out a field of deer.

Winke was bringing it in the stand and running deer out in the evening with a drone. I wrote him and told him it was cheesy and unethical…he didn’t write back but I haven’t seen it since. I like to think I did that!

 

[Native Hunter]

Winke was bringing it in the stand and running deer out in the evening with a drone. I wrote him and told him it was cheesy and unethical…he didn’t write back but I haven’t seen it since. I like to think I did that!

And I'm glad you did that.

 

[Native Hunter]

Winke was bringing it in the stand and running deer out in the evening with a drone. I wrote him and told him it was cheesy and unethical…he didn’t write back but I haven’t seen it since. I like to think I did that!

You must have really got to him. I just noticed a new video of his on YouTube called. "Deer Hunting Sucks."

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

You must have really got to him. I just noticed a new video of his on YouTube called. "Deer Hunting Sucks."

No guy with 600 plus acres in northeastern Iowa should ever say that!!

 

[willy]

Have the decency to stay 40 or 50 yards off the line.

IF a neighboring property is 100's of acres or more, this would probably be possible in a lot of instances, however If one lops a 35 to 40 yard wide perimeter off limits to stands, this takes at least 17 acres off of an 80, and that's only cutting that chunk from the half mile sides and one of the quarter mile side, assuming the other quarter mile side is lined with a road. That's 21.25 percent of the 80 that one owns but a neighboring hunter/landowner with the above mentality feels entitled to control how their neighbor uses their land. That is unAmerican.

Unless one owns several continuous sections of land and it meets all the needs of the deer, deer will leave ones property and be fair game on neighboring properties. We don't own the deer. We can try to manipulate how they use our property and perhaps how much time they spend on it but they will always be leaving it for some duration at some point. One just has to get over it. I get a bit disappointed when a deer has been passed a year or two and has been hanging out on my property but gets killed on a neighboring property. As long as the deer have been taken legally, I'm over it pretty quickly.

I was pissed though when the outfitter just kept hammering the population with no regard to deer population. The last year he leased it, he complained to the landowner how few deer there were. It has been wonderful the past 2 seasons with him not running hunters through the property like a carwash.

 

[Mortenson]

^^^ That's fine. But just be prepared to be told no when you need to recover game on my land. When wounded game crosses the line, it's no longer your land, it's now my land, and just as you stated, that's un-American. If you're 40 yards off the line, then I'm a lot more likely to say yes than if you're on the line. People who hunt the line are users IMO.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

^^^ That's fine. But just be prepared to be told no when you need to recover game on my land. When wounded game crosses the line, it's no longer your land, it's now my land, and just as you stated, that's un-American. If you're 40 yards off the line, then I'm a lot more likely to say yes than if you're on the line. People who hunt the line are users IMO.

Amen. Also I’m sorry but if don’t have enough land to not hunt on the line…you may not have enough land to hunt

 

[b116757]

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

I will admit it’s sometimes difficult but how does that old adage go about a wise man and knowing the things we can change and things we can’t and the wisdom to know the difference.