Tresspassers - Poachers - What to do now

[deadeye]

icebanger,
I may have taken liberty with the term "poachers", they did have a license and it was in season.

Kenhunting,
That's a tough one.  On one hand he has the right (although it's shows poor sportsmanship) to put a stand on his property.  On the other he cannot shoot deer on your bosses property without permission.  I had a few of these around my property and have reached agreement with most neighbors to keep all stands at least 100 yards off the property lines.  This means we would be around 200 yards apart.   This has worked in all cases except one.  The guy has a huge enclosed 4X8 house on stilts about 10 feet off my property.  To make it worse, it is on the very corner of his land and I own the land on two sides of the stand which means he can only shoot deer in 1/4 of the circle around him.  Makes a guy wonder.......   I pretty much gave up hunting the area around his stand.  This means that by staying 200 yards from his stand, I am giving up hunting abuout 20 acres of my land.  Doesn't make me too happy but there isn't much I can do about it. 

[Bufflehead]

Where I come from we do not like Signs everybody works things out. There is no imagenary line use common sense. We never had problems until people from the cities started hunting and putting up signs. By doing this it caused tensions between the locals and the outoftowners. Once we had a kind of sit down and chat everything has since worked out and the signs are gone. When it come to hunting we know where the nieghbors sit or stand we try to work everybody togather. For example if you see a deer 75 yards across my line you shoot it and I do the same, but I probably wouldn't shoot 250 yards across on the nieghbors just out courtosy. I don't hunt ducks if the next guy wants to hunt them on my place I don't care but I may  cross his land out grouse hunting if I am not interfearing on his hunt. Has worked out fine with all of us.

 That's the way it use to be here, until my neighbor got killed in a car wreck. New people have moved in twice. Immediate "THIS IS MY LAND...HEAR IS THE LINE...DON'T CROSS IT!!!!!!!"

 Me and my neighbor use to hunt back and forth across each others property. I have a 150 acres, he had 80. There's a small piece of grass and brush that is between my property and his driveway(maybe 200yrds long and 20ft wide). My Org neighbor had me fence my cows and horses right up to his driveway. that way they kept the brush & grass down and didn't shade his driveway. That way he didn't have to cut the grass & brush, my cows and horses benefited from the grass,  his driveway stayed dryer and the spring mud season was much shorter for him. The new neighbor moved in, called me and told to meet him by the monument corner marker of our property. When I got there, he had a compass and told me to follow him and mark the line with marking tape. Then said when were done move your fence. He even had the nuts to call me after a storm and told me my tree fell on his driveway and I was to come and cut it and move it, so he could get through. HE HAS NEVER EVEN WALKED ON THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY SINCE THAT DAY!!!!! Needless to say..he need not call me in a emergency....or anytime for that matter. Good thing I still have some neighbors who were born and raised here. We still work together well.   

[dakids]

We get along with our neighbors very well.  We trade the hay off of the field for getting our grass cut around our camp site.  He also keeps an eye out on our camper and sheds when we aren't around.  He also likes to see all of the deer that come to the food plot.  We also had a fence that went down the middle of our land that we were going to remove.  He was more than happy to remove it for us with his tractor.  He reused the barbed wire for a fence that he was going to erect.  Win-Win.

[beeker]

bad neighbors are going to be bad neighbors regardless of where they are living or from, that same guy that made you move your fence probably complains to his suburb neighbor when his kids ball rolls onto his grass.. morons are morons and in the same good people are good people.  I keep my land posted but the few neighbors I have, have talked and no one hessitates to wander across the border.   the best is when my neighbor is around and talks about pulling the yoyo's out who think their 4x4 can make it through the washout at the end of my road.. it goes from 8" to 4' deep instantly

[HUNTER2]

When I bought my land a couple years ago the neighbors had stands less than 20' from my line. They still have them there. They are nice enough people but that is still not very neighborly if you ask me. They also wounded a deer and spread out and made a mini drive looking for it without asking first. I might have to get it surveyed so I can put up signs right next to the stands.

[Bufflehead]

When I bought my land a couple years ago the neighbors had stands less than 20' from my line. They still have them there. They are nice enough people but that is still not very neighborly if you ask me. They also wounded a deer and spread out and made a mini drive looking for it without asking first. I might have to get it surveyed so I can put up signs right next to the stands.

 That will get you far

 Their stands were there before you were

 I have a 150 acres, another 20 acre place and a place in South Dakota. My land goes to the property line....I don't pay taxes on this area bordering another person's property. Then don't dare use it because he/they thinks I'm out of line hunting on it(my land)

 Your far better to work with them, get along or your in for a long drug out not so good place to live/vacation.

 On my 20 acre place with a hunting cabin. I'm very rarely there. I know the neighbors hunt it..So what!

 I have NEVER been broke into or had anything missing or damaged. I consider it cheap security

[HUNTER2]

Ok, then I'll just put up a stand 10' from there land and shoot the deer before they can get there.