RE: To post or not in PA
 

But with written permission, make sure they know what your rules are and that it applys only to them and not their friends to hunt on your property, or you could have 15 people that you don't know on a deer drive for that 1 person and his buddies that you gave written permissionfor that onehunt.
Just lay down the rules for anyone you invite. And sometimes those posted signs don't work if your bordered around other property owners who might be slobs and assume it's allright for them to tresspass, cause they would allow you since your neighbors. And they would end up driving your property andthe deer and your management would of gone to waiste, cause they shot the deer you was trying to help manage decent antler growth. I would presume that what your intentions was for with the food plots anyway.

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My neighbor seems like a pretty decent guy. He has 111 acres that I have my right of way through. I need to be careful with him and include him as much as possible. He lets us ride our atv's on his property in the summer so I feel obligated to reciprocate and allow him on ours. He hates atv's by the way but I think he sees how considerate we are. My largest concern is that he is not convinced about QDM working. However, I'll lay down the ground rules with him about the food plots, antler size, drives, and doe harvest and hopefully that doesn't turn him off. My larger concern is the Amish that are on the other side of his land. Apparantly they don't need a license or care whether it's hunting season or not. Their land is posted and we don't go on it - hopefully they can do the same for us.

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Post it, and Amish people can be arrested for trespassing just like anybody else....

RE: To post or not in PA
 

Posting is probably your only alternative and the advice about using signs that say Hunting By Permission Only, sounds like a good way to handle it, for starters. Those with any class will ask first, the rest will do what they want to anyway. You'll eventually figure out which ones are which.


I finally started posting my ground along the road frontage, when road hunters fired a volley that came within 50 yards of a stand I was in, back in one of our last doe seasons. None of my otherboundaries are posted, since I have permission to hunt on neighboring land. All of my neighbors in the area know the posters are not for them, some still make a point of asking anyway.

Inyour situation, boundaries with state land will probably also need posted, if people have become used to straying onto what is nowyours. It will tick people off, but they'll have to adjust to things. It ain't their land. Also good advice about making sure where the actual lines are so posters are correctly placed.

Establishing good relations withneighbors is always a positive, especially when you live someplace else. They're always there, you aren't. Fortunately for me, I have relatives in the area of my cabinand have known most of my neighbors since I was a kid.

Sad that posting may be your only solution, but there is no shortage of people more than willing to take advantage of things and basically become a major PITA. You ownit, you pay the taxes, it's your decision that matters, not the opinions of those that think they can abuse your investment. Best of luck.

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I have alot of experience with the Amish and i can tell you this,,,if their close to your property,,,there will be no deer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POST EVERY TREE WHERE THEIR CONSERNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I agree and have zero respect for them...sorry, too many pathetic dealings with them.