Originally Posted by
whitetailcrazy
I understand where you are coming from, but my experience's have been bad.. I started hunting in Pike county when I was 14 (22 years ago), I used to be able to hunt pretty much anywhere I wanted as long as I had asked permission. Then came the publicity from T.V. and that was the end.... At 26 I had enough and made a move for the better..
Not until last year did I start having bad experience with out of staters.. These 14 guys from Maryland and West Virginia leased 1000 acres surrounding the property in which I hunt.. Where do you think they had put up a stand??? 60 yards from my permanent stand which had been in that spot for the past 10 years.. and they knew it was there cause they had mentioned that when they were walking their properties they had seen it... Talk about infuriating... Then on top of it they are shooting 130" bucks, while all the time prior, they talked about how they are into QDMA.....what a load of B.S....
I don't think that what you are describing is as much about out of staters as it is about differences in hunters. My old lease was bordered by 120 acres hunted by locals. They hunted by permission of the local owner and shot everything they saw (literally). Opening day of firearms last year they killed 13 deer on their property (bucks and does). They hunted the lines and shot across on us regularly.
I have a new lease this year. Several weeks ago while hanging stands I found a ladder stand across the line fence on our lease. The adjoining property is owned by a local and hunted by his son and a few of his friends. The line is obvious and they know where it is.
Sorry for the problems you're having, but it can work both ways. If you were hunting next to my lease, you would have a totally different experience.