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If you don’t like the neighbors buy them out. If you can’t buy them out, probably best to learn to get along with them.

Can't afford to buy them out. Property was listed for 1.3m...nice house though....lol

I work with all my neighbors. Everyone has an agreement that do what you got to do to retrieve a deer, don't ask first, just go get it. My neighbor to the west had a transportation issue so I gave him a key to our gate so he could drive his truck in to his property. I'll work with anyone. If see someone new during season I'll stop and talk with them.

I am hoping I meet this guy but right now I'm pissed on how he's not even hiding it.

Also...some states mandate that a stand can NOT FACE neighboring property. They can be on the line but cant face the adjacent property.

This I gotta look into it. Michigan doesn't give 2 craps about line hunters, but which way it's facing I honestly didn't think about. Thanks

You said it yourself. Private property, pay taxes, owner does what he wants. That applies to him too. Until he shoots a deer illegally on your property you should mind your own business. You sound like a cop, assuming he's gonna do something wrong before he does it.

You sure you just aren't mad he's shooting deer that you said aren't up to your standards?

I'm pretty sure on the standards thing. Nice try though.

Why would someone who has 40 acres of decent land position his tree stand in a direction that only has roughly 5 yards til he hits the property line? What would you think? That little portion is hot. I think I have only been in there twice in 8 years. Turn the stand around facing your property and wait til they walk into your property . The trails heading north of the spot are heavy, I'm sure it is to the south also.

There’s the possible issue of hunter harassment if that happens.

Definitely worth talking to the owner, quite possible it’s a guest. A conversation would be my next move.

Cheap ladder stand, mannequin in hunting clothes directly in front of his stand. Put it up after dark the night before season opens.

We hunt our property lines, I do have the stands facing into our property and the back blocked where you can't behind you. It makes no sense why someone would start hunting from the middle of their property, unless you're trying to drive them out. Our feeding, bedding and sanctuary areas are in the middle of our property and I allow no one to walk in there. You can make this deer hunting gig as hard as you want, fact is the deer catch on instantly to hunting pressure.

Yep

How hard is the idea it is his property, he pays the taxes and he can place his stand anyplace in it….and in any direction he damn well pleases. And who are you to tell him what shooting lane he should choose?

Spray aftershave on the line...Deer in that area must not travel both ways??? Buy another stand and put a mannequin in it? And waste your time the night before making noise and stinking up that area on your side..While his remains clean.....Brilliant!!!!

This could be a chapter for Deer hunting for Dummies....

There are legal rights to a property and then there are ethics. Anyone placing a stand 5 yards from your property line and faces it plans on shooting stuff coming from your property or killing stuff on your property and dragging it over. Hint

The first is not illegal or unethical..How many steps over the line is required until it passes the ethical test? The second is both..however, conjecture until you catch or prove they did so...Hint!!!!

And how many times do we see quoted on here...."As long as it is legal."

And, I'm hunting the other side...I'm not supposed to look for anything coming off your side? No, it would be only right if I kept my back to your side and shot only when it passed to the front. Post if you want, but don't get all whiney, if another takes one when it crosses over.

As you mentioned, talk to the guy. Seems like the common sense thing to do.

Anything you do to scent-up, noise-up, or visual-up the line to make him not want to hunt there may effect your hunting as much or more than his....even if you're not hunting that location, deer travel through it.

I'm doubtful this is the case, but for consideration, the last couple of years I've hung lock-on stands facing away from the direction I plan on shooting (none of them are on property lines though). I've started using a saddle harness instead of a normal vest/full body harness for all my stand hunting. It allows me to sit in the stand or to fold the seat up and sit in the saddle facing the opposite direction of the stand using it as a platform. This has turned out to be the most comfortable way to hunt out of a stand I've found. Probably not the case here but anyhow....

Only one that is getting "whiney" is you as usual. He/She has a legal right to put a stand on the one inch line on the property line facing the neighbors property. I question the ethics.

Heading off our property.


And the result of letting your little head do the thinking.


My neighbors aren't as choosey as we are. As long as they don't get carried away I'm happy for them. It's not hard to be an azzhole and screw everyone's hunting up. There's one thing I know for sure, if I squeeze the trigger I'll never see that buck alive again.

I sent my nephew a txt that a young 10pt was heading his way and I'll never see him alive again either. Every year we loose a few nice bucks to hunters, but isn't that what it's all about? Just do what's right and everything will work out.

Question all you want, but your questions don't hold up...to "As long as it is legal"

As far as 'whiney", I'm only pointing out those making high pitched sounds, about what another does on their property with regard legal hunting....But no, "your" ethics are what others should adhere to. Cry me another river and don't bogart the Systane.

Another, had the answer..Place a food plot and a sanctuary in the middle of that 100 acres....and for the most part care less where the other places their stand.

Good grief, your rights stop at the fence. If he wants to put a basketball court on the line, it’s still his property.

Bitching about his tree stand makes you as bad as your neighbor. Possession is limited by boundaries, not by disgust.

TrueGrit...Looks like you would be a great neighbor..However, your ethics have me concerned, in that I think it is unethical to text another that game is coming their way. However, if it is legal....then my ethics are irrelevant.

BTW...Nice Bucks, congrats...