Deer Hunter Etiquette

[danielsumner]

I have a neighbor across the road whose land borders one of my fields/pastures. His house sits on about 3 acres. I noticed the other day that he has a deer blind setup in the back and it’s facing my land. Not good. Today I drive toward the back of my property and I see a big drum type tripod corn feeder in the middle of my field. The field is about 8 or so acres. This is not good at all. All he had to do was ask, don’t take advantage of me, it’s not going to work. I have been neighborly, let him bush hog a path for him to get to some property behind me so he didn’t have to use the main road with his UTV. A few problems with his grand-kids four wheeling on our land, too much liability to let them four wheel. Normally I just take down and throw away any deer stands, cameras ect I find. This is just brazen. No use asking after the fact, it’s not going to happen.

[TnAndy]

Originally Posted by danielsumner

Normally I just take down and throw away any deer stands, cameras ect I find.

I'd take it down and throw it away. I do the same with deer stands/etc found on my property. Found one once they had left the stand, but removed the spikes "so nobody could get to it" I guess.

They came back to find a stump.

[Doug Hodges]

Wow. He must of thought it was ok. I cant imagine.

[Hollowdweller]

Can I chime in?

My neighbor has a stand facing my land. I'm not sure anybody used it this year though.

OK so I have no ATV trails on my place so I walk to all my deer stands and drag them out.

This guy took a beautiful peice of land, timbered it, put buildings all over it, cut roads everwhere, fenced a bunch in, and now he's facing my woods where I haven't even cut a tree when he has about 20 more acres than I do.

I see this a lot. Guys who buy land clear it all off develop it and then expect to hunt on those of us who prize habitat and solitude.

I'd just remove the feeder as others have mentioned.

[1shotwade]

Possession is 9/10 of the law! Want to sell me a deer feeder?


Wade

[1shotwade]

I just talked to one of my neighbors today. A guy up the road bought a real nice piece of property,cleaned it up ,built a $400,000 home,stuck no trespassing sign on every tree and post. Now he's wanting to hunt on everyone around when he messed up the best place around here.If that's not bad enough he ask my neighbor for permission to hunt and he let him. The next week this guy came over on my neighbor and posted no trespassing signs all over his place.This guys livingroom cost more than my whole farm and now this attitude! I don't think so.
There has got to be something in the water. Nobody can be that stupid on purpose.


Wade

[geo in mi]

Paint it pink.

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[collieradomtman]

I find tracks all the time, and a couple times neighbors hunting on my property. it drives me crazy because everyone out here has at least a 20 acre parcel the least being 10, yet everyone thinks its OK to ride ATVs and hunt on my land....sorry not happening. Let's just say the conversations I have had with neighbors has not been pleasant. (I'm sure I've used the phrase "I can dig a lot of holes on 30 acres!" A few times) I don't like to be a jerk but I got my point across to most I still have problems though with a group of kids.

[Hollowdweller]

Originally Posted by 1shotwade

I just talked to one of my neighbors today. A guy up the road bought a real nice piece of property,cleaned it up ,built a $400,000 home,stuck no trespassing sign on every tree and post. Now he's wanting to hunt on everyone around when he messed up the best place around here.If that's not bad enough he ask my neighbor for permission to hunt and he let him. The next week this guy came over on my neighbor and posted no trespassing signs all over his place.This guys livingroom cost more than my whole farm and now this attitude! I don't think so.
There has got to be something in the water. Nobody can be that stupid on purpose.


Wade

Go to you tube or something and listen to the song by Del Mc Coury Band, "40 acres and a fool" Sounds like it was written about your guy.

[copperkid3]

[QUOTE=1shotwade;6846451
There has got to be something in the water. Nobody can be that stupid on purpose.
Wade[/QUOTE]
+ + + + + + + + +
water in D.C., Chicago, Hawaii or Kenya either.

To the o.p., tree stands and/or feeders that magically appear
on my property without someone seeking prior permission,
seem to have a habit of magically disappearing without
their former owner knowing where they went to.

[Hollowdweller]

Originally Posted by collieradomtman

I find tracks all the time, and a couple times neighbors hunting on my property. it drives me crazy because everyone out here has at least a 20 acre parcel the least being 10, yet everyone thinks its OK to ride ATVs and hunt on my land....sorry not happening. Let's just say the conversations I have had with neighbors has not been pleasant. (I'm sure I've used the phrase "I can dig a lot of holes on 30 acres!" A few times) I don't like to be a jerk but I got my point across to most I still have problems though with a group of kids.

I basically just tell people that my wife and I hunt our place and I don't want them to mess up our hunting by hunting on top of us.

I think a LOT of people count on nobody being there, so it's a shock when they come on my land back in the wild part and suddenly somebody is coming up to them.

[collieradomtman]

[QUOTE=Hollowdweller;6846477]I basically just tell people that my wife and I hunt our place and I don't want them to mess up our hunting by hunting on top of us.

I've told them that as well the neighbors I caught I haven't seen again, these kids though and by kids I mean mid 20s I keep following tracks back to their place but they wont admit it heck* they have a 40 acre parcel and still manage to cross a fence over to my land that is clearly marked. I can't get LE involved because not even county cops know how to get out here

[simi-steading]

I think it's common for neighbors to encroach a little when hunting.. Say they are hunting their property and see a deer right over the line... That's one thing.. but to travel all over another man's property without expressed consent is another issue.

Then to put a feeder on another mans land.. that's WAY over the line. Who knows.. DNR could come around and start accusing you for hunting over bait.

I'd take a walk over to the neighbor and tell him he needs to get his feeder off your land NOW... Tell him this time you're going to be nice about it, but next time, you own a nice feeder that will be going up for sale..

[1shotwade]

I've posted this somewhere in the past but it kind of fits here and now. Dad die in a tractor accident back in 98 and that's when we started having trouble. The people across the creek thought it was o.k. to ride atv's on the property since it's just an old lady there now.We talked a couple times and got the same old thing." It'll never happen again." Now wouldn't you know that the creek came up and washed a bunch of old beer bottles down the creek and the funnies thing. They all broke exactly at the two places they had been crossing over on our property! God works in strange ways.(Ever push an atv 3/4 mile up hill with 4 flat tires?)


Wade

[Adisiwaya]

I would take pictures and keep the feeder. Heck its on your property they shouldn't be there. There been poachers at my dads and I was accused of pouching because of it. Good thing I was in n.d. at the time they accusing me of taking deer out of season. I hate hearing about things like this, people should either ask or not go there, not there property to decide what to do hunt or trap etc. Hopefully this gets resolved nicely

[Pony]

We have to be on the alert all the time. Locals who have "been huntin' this land for years" figure they have the right to hunt anywhere they want - even if they're firing right into another neighbor's child's bedroom.

It's settled down a bit now, but you still get the occasional jerk who says, "Well, Joe Blow said I could hunt here."

Really funny, because Joe Blow passed on close to two years ago.

"So, when's the last time you talked to Joe?"

"Oh, just last week."

"You must have been at a seance then, because he passed a good while ago."

Then the stammering and lying starts.

[CarolynRenee]

Now that we're all venting about rude hunters....how do you guys/gals like the jerks that say "It's an easement, so it's public property so I can hunt here, drive my ATV, etc. on it"?

I want to take an ad out in our local paper every year around the start of deer season stating exactly what a Utility Easement is. It is NOT public property. It is an agreement between a private land owner and the Utility Company that allows the Utility Company to put lines, poles, etc. on the private property. It does not give every Tom, Dick and Harry the right to hunt, walk, spit or drive his ATV across it.

The concept of Private Property is lost on most people. Usually the ones who have destroyed theirs or those who have none.

Rant done.

[mulemom]

Sorry to hear everyone's trouble but I'm glad to find that we're not the only ones!! We're in ne ohio, about 80 acres that we've been on since the late '50's. My dad used to let people hunt because he was afraid somebody would start a mj plot he didn't know about. When he passed we let them know no hunting because we now have livestock pastured there. Place behind us has sold four times in six years and every newby has tried and been caught hunting here. Anyone hunting on private property here has to have signed permission from the landowner-usually just threatening to tell the game warden is enough since if caught they lose their license and whatever weapons they're carrying. Four wheelers are a different story since there's no way to positively identify them and the county sheriff could care less. What really fries me is whether adult or kid their excuse is always that they're lost. Of course they always know 'that's their grandfather or friends farm' over there. I've since found that a couple 45 rounds in the ground reinforces my 'crazy lady' reputation and they stay away. Guess it's just a sign of the times-when we were kids and wanted to ride our horses to friends we had to get permission from everyone whose property we'd ride across. Parents would have grounded us until death if we didn't. That said-anything found on our property IS our property as far as I'm concerned. Or do like I did with the neighbor's fireworks this summer-pitch everything as far as you can onto his property-preferably hard enough to destroy it. Don't mess with the crazy lady! 1shot-thorn trees-the ones with the 1" thorns works good too and eventually they'll rot away.
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[Michael W. Smith]

Originally Posted by danielsumner

I noticed the other day that he has a deer blind setup in the back and it’s facing my land. Today I drive toward the back of my property and I see a big drum type tripod corn feeder in the middle of my field. I have been neighborly, let him bush hog a path for him to get to some property behind me so he didn’t have to use the main road with his UTV.

The solution to the deer blind, is to put something in front of it along your property line. Do you have any animals to raise? Do you need a shed for storage?

That big drum type tripod corn feeder would suddenly disappear tonight. He might get the hint when it disappears. If he comes over to inquire about it, you can ask "What feeder? I didn't see it, but I certainly don't remember giving you permission to put it up on my property. It's just as well that somebody stole it before I saw it and asked you to remove it anyway."

"Let him bush hog a path to get to some property behind me . . . ." With that statement, that's probably how he figures you "gave him permission" to put the feeder up. There would be no path this coming year.

They always say "Fences make good neighbors." I think I would be inclined to put a fence up between his property and yours. A nice big fence - 5' or 6' chain link or wire fence. Then you can put your own feeder out, and he can see all that nice wild life and not be able to do anything about it.

You need to nip this problem in the bud RIGHT NOW and tell him all previous use and "deals" on your property (the path) are history. Starting from today, tell him you are posting your property, and ALL trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[1shotwade]

Another thing that happens now is that all these people I don't know like to use my place to walk between one road and another. I don't really mind but we hunt. A couple years ago my son and I had just shot a squirrel and before we could go find it two women came walking by like they owned the place.They were right beside us and didn't see us so as soon as the passes I fired a couple rounds. Boy did their pace pick up! Now during the "walking season I have placed a human type target right there where that happened 'cause it can be seen from the house 400 yards away.Before I put it up i shot it full of holes. Now when I see "Walkers" out on the road I'll fire off a round or two just to make them think I'm out back shooting at that target.I've not seen then lately so don't know if it has worked or not. I had to stop this 'cause that was just dangerious having people come upon you while you're hunting.


Wade