ORIGINAL: ShatoDavis

Well,

I'm really going to piss some folks off. I'm a landowner so I speak from experience. You have no right to say or do anything kid. Not only that your thinking is totally wrong.

First its not you land its your grandpa's. Its not your place to say or do anything, its his. Secondly, you don't own the deer. and you can't look at the money you've spent as an investment. Deer roam (unless they are in high fence). Deer jump fence lines. You can plant your grandpa's whole farm up in Mossy Oak Biologic and it doesn't make that 200 inch buck that feeds there anymore yours than the man in the moon.

Whatever happened to being neighborly. Heck, at my farm we had gentlemanly agreements with all of our neighbors about hunting. We agree that if we saw a deer on the other side of a fence we could shoot it. Also, if a turkey we were calling was across the fence we could cross it to get the kill. During small game season we would swing by each other house and ask if it was all right to hunt a certain patch out. The answer was inevitably yes.

Then some @$$hole bought 80 acres bordering me. Now this jerk thought that his 80 acres was off limits and no one should even look across his fence. Your talking about 80 acres bordering folks with 1000+ on all sides. Hell, he spent more time running fences during season than hunting. He'd here a shot and take off towards it to make sure that it wasn't on him. A class a jerk!

I bordered him on two sides of his 80. I have a terrific stand on the corner. its aprox. 20 yards from his fence. Its the perfect "pinch" between fields and large white oaks. I've hunted that stand for years prior to him showing up. I showed up to my stand opening morning a few years ago to find my steps pulled out of the tree and what appeared to be Tide poured on the platform. Now thats downright dirty. I was super pissed. If I would have met up with him that day I probably would have spent the night in the pokey for assault.

But, alas he had a heart attack from all his worrying and the world is a better place now. What I'm saying is get along with your neighbors and chill out a little. The guy isn't going to hurt anything. So what if he kills a super buck right there. You may get a nicer one the next day. Live and let live. So what if he shoots the thing ten yards on your side of the fence. What if you saw a huge buck on his side of the fence? Would you honestly pass up a Boone & Crocket buck because it was 30 feet past your boundary? Or would you shoot it hoping it jumped the fence or that you could drag it to your side before someone else found you? I think I already know the answer.