what would you do? (True story of a friend)

Where is setting up on a property line written as poor manners or poor form? I think as long as I do not shoot across a fence, it is often the only spot to set up for a particular animal. Now if 2 guys are both after the same animal they just need to work together or decide a schedule.
Brent
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Exactly.

"Poor manners"..."bad sportsmanship"..."asking for trouble"....all used to describe what a property owner had every right to do. And then to use "I can understand" when someone got his skivvies in a bunch and illegally committed sabotage. The gall it takes to cross a property line and to destroy a tree so that it cant be hunted is beyond understanding.
 
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i would've contacted the neighbor to find out his intentions. asked him as nicely as possible to not shoot at anything on my property, or towards my property. if they did in fact shoot something on their side and it ran onto my property,they would only have to ask me or my wife for permission to search for it.

there is this thing called a safety zone. don't shoot towards it or carry a loaded firearm/knocked arrow within it, 450' of property line,a dwelling occupied or not, school playgrounds,parks etc.. if after asking him/her i found out that they did in fact break the agreement. then i would be pressing charges if possible.
 
I see the original poster is from Wichita. In Kansas, it is the law that if you shoot and wound an animal you are legally obligated to follow it up and retrieve it. Getting nasty because a neighbor puts up a stand near a property line is childish and immature. Deer are not in short supply around Wichita. They are just like the city bus. Just wait ten minutes and there will be another one by.

I have a fence that has a huge Cottonwood tree in the fenceline. The neighbor has a treestand on his side of the tree overlooking the deertrail that comes from my pasture, over the fence into his field. As much as I detest bowhunters, it isnt worth a war with the neighbor over a stupid treestand. If he has that much of an inferiority complex, then go out to the Sedgewick County Zoo and get a bucket of Lion poop and take it down there and spread it around and the dood can set in the stand until H freezes over and no deer will come within a half a mile. I sure woulda liked to have been that neighbor and caught him cuttin down that tree on my side of the fence.........oh yeah.
 
Don' know about the Midwest but...

Hunter harrasment is illegal and punishable by a#! whippin where I live. I'd say cutting down a tree w/somebody elses stand in it (not to mention the tree was owned by the stand owner!) is hunter harrasment.
 
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How would your friend feel if a bunny hugger neighbor did the same thing on his property? It wouldn't be any different in my eyes.
 
Good Neighboros

I wouldn't call these people NEIGHBORS. They are just people whose lands join. Neighbors don't cut each others trees.
 
there is this thing called a safety zone. don't shoot towards it or carry a loaded firearm/knocked arrow within it, 450' of property line
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Rem870, what state do you live in? or is this a municipality ruling?
 
i'm in NJ its a state thing only i guess. i thought that it was a federal thing,until you asked that question. unless you have on your person written permission to hunt within the 450' area of a property line,dwelling. i doubt very much that anyone could get permission to hunt that close to a school or playground. even if you could i would not.

i have a horsepen 75' to the right of my property, to the left a small field with a house practically on the property line of the field. the house on the left is within 450'. across the street from the house on the left is another house. they have a horsepen too. i can sit on my front porch and see horses and cows right at the fence sometimes,if they get that close. i have woodchucks come in between my line and the horsepen. i have permission to shoot them when i can. i don't dare shoot towards the other 2 houses or properties. the dwellers of the 2 houses on the left know i shoot the woodchucks and also know i don't/won't shoot towards there side. i told them i would not. so i won't.
 
I was on a dove lease last year had near a 100 acre field that butted up against a school. We were very careful to respect the property line near where the football stadium stood. We gave that structure a good 50 yard berth if we wanted to work that side of the field. Our shot would only go away from that property line.

Yesterday I build a ground blind ON a fence line. He hog wallow is UNDER the fence. We felt this one required giving the neighbor a heads up.
 
Any particular reason for this smear? Glad you have met them all, so you can legitimately make such a well-thought-out statement.
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Thinking the same thing.

Honestly, haven't met a bowhunter yet that litters or thinks they have a god given right to hunt on someone elses property without asking for permission first. Can't say the same thing about other hunters
 
Detest Bowhunters???????

I don't know why anyone would DETEST Bowhunters. I know lots of GOOD GUYS who happen to be Bowhunters. I,m one of them myself.
 
His neighbor had EVERY RIGHT in the world to put up the tree stand, and your friend had NO RIGHTin the world to go onto his property and cut it down.

What your friend did is just disgusting.
 
Stuff like what your freind did is what gives hunters and gun owners a bad name.

I know what its like to have people hunt near my property line, but as long as they dont cross over it, I'm fine with it.
 
re cutting the tree down, if he had cut my tree down, he would be in jail for it. I do mean jail, criminal damage to property as well as disturbing a legal tree stand and hunter harassment are jail term kind of things around here...


RE bowhunters. I used to work with several, and I lost respect for them,

When they routinely shot deer at late dusk, and after a 4 minute "search" decided the mosquitoes were too thick to continue the search, and the deer was just weasel bait.....

When the latest rage is shooting BIG bucks in velvet, before they can mate and pass on the genes.

When they post stands in bird hunting areas, and put up nothing orange and insist on head to toe camo, but then sue some young kid who tries to shoot a grouse on the wing and a few pellets hit the bow hunter.....Deer can't see colors, the only thing head to toe camo does is cost the hunter more money. I have blaze orange with a pattern of black lines on it, Last deer season I had two does and a small buck walk up with in spitting distance to me when I was just sitting on a camp chair, They knew something was there but until I said Hello deer, they had no idea.

If bow hunters consider a wounded deer to be the use of their tag, to skip velvet bucks until after they breed, or to start wearing orange, I say not on my land.
 
In all fairness, you've just described a number of rifle hunters I know. I share your disdain for slob hunters. They are in all weapon ranks, not just bow. I'd consider your "polling sample" unrepresentative.
 
With the opinionated responses to some peoples style of hunting being posted(that are clearly off topic) this thread is going to 'hell in a handbasket'. No decent hunter likes a slob hunter of any kind and there are alot of them using all weapons to do it. Most poached deer around this neck of the woods, found with their racks cut off are usually shot with a rifle. At any-rate back on topic. Neigbor two farms over just had to pay his adjoining neighbor $1700 for two Black Walnut trees accidently cut off property when he was having a select cut done. Loggers got over property line. The price that was paid was dirt cheap but was in agreement between parties. Cutting or damaging someones trees can get expensive real fast.
 
Okay, back on topic...

He has gotten married within the last year, so maybe that will help keep him under control.
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Or maybe he'll get shot next year while cutting someone else's tree, and that will cure him of his impulsive actions (and prevent him from passing on his genes) :)
 
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