How close has someone set-up next to you?

[Addictted]

I've been hunting a small woodlot (maybe 7 acres) with grass and brush to the N and W of it with corn to the S, E is woods and corn. I've been hunting it for 5 years by myself. It was open when I started to hunt it, now there’s brush and buckthorn everywhere, can see 30 yards around my stand.
Well this year before the season the owner tells me he's letting some lady hunt in their bowhunting for deer and turkey hunting. At first I'm like ok whatever, then he proceeds to tell me the lady and her husband own land somewhere, she doesn’t want to hunt with him so I'm letting her hunt here to try and out due him. So then I'm not happy at all, but not to worried cause I don't hunt this spot too much. SO yesterday I get to my stand attach my harness then pull up my bow, turn around and there NOT 20 FEET from my stand is a ladder stand in the nearest tree.
So what’s the closest someone has set-up to you public or private? What do you think an acceptable distance is?

[nodog]

What ever the land owner decides. If the land owner says she can hunt it, she can hunt it. Time to move on, out of state if needed.

If possible set up a way to reserve the time. Clubs are like that. They also reserve the stand. One place I hunt each person has the option to set up stands anywhere they want as many as they want, but they only get to choose one primary stand that they can have anytime they want. All of the other stands are first come by any of the other members. Stands are all over and some just down right comical, all safe.

I've moved on from places likle that. Had some bumkin last year pic an area so I picked another. He changed his mind and decided to give me company, I packed up. As I was leaving he showed up an annouced with a grin, no idea why "I saw you". What an idiot. Typically see several deer there, I saw none that morning. Great white hunter!

Drug a deer past him once while he was on stand a good 6' off the ground and he was in a hole. lol Still gives me a chuckle.

[PAThwacker]

gunhunting once here comes a fool not 25 yards from us....first light here comes a 60lb doe bolting between us and he unloads. Talk about a beatdown situation!!!!!

[kickin_buck]

A long time ago, there was a piece of public land that I use to hunt after work. It was not a place you were going to kill a big buck, but it was loaded with does.

The section I like to hunt was across the road from a restricted area. In the evenings the deer would come out of the restricted section and cross a small strip of timber to the corn fields. There was no specific trails they followed, so you just set up 30-40 yards off the road and hope one came trotting by you.

After a few years, word go out that this spot was money as far as killing goes and there were several times when there would 20+ guys hunting a strip of timber that was about 300 yards long and no more than 90 yards wide. It got to the point that if you were not there by 2pm (the deer normally did not start moving until around 5:30 or so) the place would packed and there would not be a climbing tree left.

The last night I hunted it, I had a guy come walking in, I said something so he knew where I was, he looked right at me and climbed a tree 10 yards directly in front of me. As it was public ground, there was not much I could say, so I left (just when the deer should be moving) and figured it was time to find a new "close to home" hunting spot.