Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How close to a property line would you hunt?

you put a blind or a feeder on my fence line and it wont be there the next day. a few people have donated blinds and feeders to this ranch. and they know better now. rio7

Ahhh.....the ol' prove yourself a thief to teach them a lesson trick. Well thought out.

Reality is, both you and they have the same amount of right to hunt on the most internal and external of acres. Harvesting game across ownership lines is wrong. Hunting on your own land never is never wrong. Stealing another's property is always wrong.

Right up against it, but never across.

I didnt steal the feeders or blinds, i took them and left a note telling them where they could come to pick them up, no one as ever come here to claim them . and no one has made the mistake of putting feeders or blinds on my fence lines since. by the way i own the fences, rio7

Great point MShf...

If a man got on my side of the fence and removed my feeder and or blind and he was owner of the fence, he would quickly see an immediate need to build himself a new fence.

If their feeder/blind was on their side of the fence, what gives you the right to even so much as touch it?

If you went onto their land to get their blinds a feeders, you stole them. If their blinds and feeders were on your land, then I'm not sure why you posted in this thread, but I'd take them too.

Sounds like you're a fuggin thief to me. Takes much to get me mad, but I don't stand for thieves. In fact, your just as much a thief as the person who shoots a deer on property they don't own, stealing is stealing. Doesn't matter if you "own the fences, if they aren't on your land, it's not yours.

If they've put blinds/feeders on their land, but shot across into yours, well then they're a thief like you.

Ya [bleep] right.
If you CROSSED the line to take the stands, you are a thief. Even one foot across the line.

I won't shoot anything over my property line.
If I shoot it on my land,and it runs onto other land, it becomes questionable. Fortunately the situation has only occurred once, and I already had prior permission to retrieve it.

It seems many of the conflicts I hear about anecdotally, revolve more around specific trophy animals straying across borders and being shot. Almost inevitably someone has been feeding it and felt it was "theirs".
No one ever seems to complain about the prospect of someone else retrieving a shot squirrel that scurried a few yards across their property line.

In PA, if there are no buildings in the area, I would hunt right up to the line. Shoot only on my side, of course.

If there is an structure that can be occupied by a human being in the area though, we are legally obligated to not hunt in, shoot into, or through a circle 150 yards in radius around that structure - regardless of what property you happen to be on.

I guess we are blessed here in New Hampshire. I've never heard of such a thing. Here, we park and hunt. As long as the land isn't actually posted, you're good to go. Land is land.

Sounds awfully friendly.

This.

Knowing the neighbors preferences in advance is important in the event a wounded animal crosses the line.

On one side, if we cross it'll be a lawsuit if he finds out. Other sides, they'll lend a hand dragging out/tracking.

Tough NOT to hunt a property line here, things are pretty fractionated. PLus, they tend to run along field edges and streams and whatnot, which is good hunting land.

We have stands near our fence lines. We don't shoot on the others property. If our neighbor has a stand on his side we dont put one up in that area on ours.

It CAN be a VERY friendly place as long as you mingle with the local folk. It's mostly the outsiders that move in and mess things up. We are the LAST state to have neither a sales nor an income tax. Even so, there are hidden taxes we pay the equal the balance out. We are for the most part pro- gun, pro hunting.

I hunt right up to the fenceline. As soon as that deer jumps the fence onto my land, it's fair game. Shot quite a few deer within a foot or two of the fence. If it's not on my land or once it jumps the fence off my land, it's out of limits for me or mine.

Fortunately never had a problem here retrieving deer that run onto neighbor's land. Happens often since I normally hunt a corner of my land and they usually manage a 50 to 100 yard dash before piling up. Neighbors are hunters or lease to hunters and as long as there's a blood trail there's no problem.

This guy was safe, he never crossed onto my side of the fence. And he needed to grow a couple of years besides that...

Property lines are there for a reason. Any rights or privileges you have on your side stops at that property line.

Rio7, people have dealt with that frustration for years, but usually it ends up being fences with a high fence to solve the issue. To take any equipment from across the boundary line and then leave a note is leaving yourself open to arrest and prosecution in my humble opinion, and the prima fascia evidence is the note you leave and the possession of the equipment should the deputies have it reported to them.

You can keep doing that if it works for you, but I could expect the sheriff's dept. at my house about a half hour after doing it around here.

I'll not risk losing my hunting privileges or right to own a gun by committing an easily proven crime.

Some interesting comments.


With all that said, have any of you ever purposely hunted the property line with the sole intention of trying to protect your own side? Just curious.