I want your guy's opinions on a situation my neighbor and hunting mentor encountered while hunting
My neighbor has basically taught me everything i know about hunting and he has hunted with me the last several years. he has permission to hunt other properties but he hunts with me on my uncle's properties when im hunting and after i harvested my doe this year with my bow he went bowhunting without me which i dont care about because it is a good woods to hunt in with alot of deer and nice bucks also.
One night he goes out to hunt and there is a guy hunting in one of the stands we hung earlier in the season my neighbor walks up to the guy and he says he is a nephew of my uncle so my neighor says ok and walks through the woods to another stand we also hung. As he sits there he can see the other guy and a buck starts to approach but then smells the other guy and my neighbor starts to grunt at the buck and it heads up to him and he shot him at 20 yrds my neighbor came and got me at home and i helped him track it and it was a decent buck 16 in wide woulda been an 8 pt but had 3 pts broken off.
my question is do you think although this nephew was sitting in our stands we hung was unethical to me it just pisses me off that someone would do that if he woulda asked i would have been fine with it and went out with him
sorry for the length guys just had to vent

You don't know your cousins? If he is your uncles newphew then he's your cousin right?

Anway, it is wrong to hunt another persons stands even though one might have permission to hunt the property.

Lefty, I run into situations like that often where I hunt. The farmer who owns the property has relatives and neighbors that own adjoining properties. The relatives do not have permission, but they go on anyway. The landowner does not want strife with any of them, so he has told us to not worry about them. Inevitably, we find them in or right next to our stands. It has ruined our plans more thn once ..... so I think it's junk that someone would sit in another man's stand and not get out of it when approached.

That is over the line. You dont mess with another mans woman or deer stand. Nuf said!!

Yeah days ....... Especially his tree stand!!!

I would say, IF he had permission (and I would check it out), nothing you can do to keep him off of property. BUT! If they were YOUR stand(s), he had no right to use them and should have been asked to move.

I personally wouldn't want to hunt close enough to smell another hunter. Too close! Kind of like walking up right next to a guy shore fishing a huge lake.Give them some room!

Ethics would depend on his right to be there in the first place.

I think it very unethical to use somebody else's stand with out permission , doesn't matter if your related or just friends .
I also think it's unethical for another hunter to be within two hundred yards of the area your hunting , weather if it's private or public land.

this guy is a nephew to my uncle's wife and i dont know him cause he is not from the small town if from
the guy showed up in work boots and tracked all kinds of scent in there too probably but its overwith now i just have more competition i cant kick him out i know that and my neighbor didnt want to kick him out and start a confrontation because he doesnt want to get kicked off the property but we went and took down all our stands because we did have some people that had asked also to hunt them because we know where to hang stands unlike the other idiots that hunt that woods
come to find out about 2 weeks after we took them down the idiot put up a popup blind right next to the tree my stand was in next year i think im gunna get a climber so im not having to worry about somebody hunting my treestands

It's just not right to sit in or near someones stand without their permission. I consider it low life same as poaching ethically wise. I had a run in with my own brother over a similar deal4 years ago. I made a special trip to New York's Adirondacks, 7 1/2 hourseach way. I did it to set up2 stands to use forbowhunting during the muzzleloader season andthen the first 2 days of gun season. I arrived Wed in time to hunt that afternoon. My brother said they had shot 2 and wounded a big one in the past two days with their muzzleloaders. Then the kicker, the stand I was going to hunt that afternoon he had put a friend in that morning. He wounded a bigbuck and they lost it. I held my temper and said where did you shoot the others. One from one of his10 stands and one from my other stand. He had sent his friend to that stand for the Wednesdayafternoon hunt. I went balistic. I spent the afternoon yanking my stands and now hunt only from my climber when there. I'm still pizzzzed about it 3 years later. How could someone have 10 stands and spend the first 4 days of the season putting his friend in my stands that I'd spent 2 days hanging after driving 7 1/2 hours, just so I wouldn't have to be stinking up the woods during the season. I haven't hunted with him the past 2 years. Not out of mad but just with things going on.... my wife's illness and then I went salmon fishing this year with my other brother instead.