Originally Posted by
capitalpyro
As a landowner the problem seems obvious to me.
You have a permanent stand 8 feet off the property line.
You say you have never had problems with other neighbors but have you ever built stands so close to the property line with them? If a nice deer is on the other side of the fence I doubt most hunters would respect that property line if no one was looking.
Like others here, I would like to hear the other side of the story. If you came and built a stand 8 feet from my property line, I would be upset as well. I would not do what your neighbor has done because I believe two wrongs don't make a right. Have respect for your neighbors. I'm glad you are not my neighbor.
So the hell what? Its on his property. A decent person doesn't start assuming that he will shoot deer on your land. Give the old guy a break. Its folks like his neighbor that give hunters a bad name.
Years back when I was younger dad and I hunted bad genetics instead of monster bucks. This one idiot owned the land on two sides of ours, and treatied with a PETA freak on the third side of our land. It was a pain in the ass. They just assumed things about us, and completely ruined two seasons of ours. That is two seasons with my dad that I will never get back.