Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk Serious Deer Talk Forum Please help! What to do about another hunter?

Just went out today to set up a stand and mark the property line. Well while marking the line I walked right up one a new stand placed less than 10 feet from the my line overlooking my land. Its a new stand that was put up with climbing sticks. It faces a hardwood bottom on my property and there is NOOOO way he is hunting his land because behind it is a about 6 year old cut-over that is full of briars and sweet-gums and is about 10 to 12 feet high. I know I cannot legally do anything to his stuff but any suggestions on how to make the other guy pull it down?

You can't really do anything about that. I'd suggest maybe hanging a stand 10' on your side and hunting it just as often as he hunts his. Come walking in after daylight a couple times on him and he'll get out. Just lock your stands. You may also give him a great opportunity to steal something of yours if he's that kind of person.

Not much you can do if they are not on you. I have the same issue except they hang stands on me. They're mine when I find em. I'll start my patrol right before bow season starts.

Not much you can do untill you SEE him shoot one over the line.

I had that problem once. I climbed up in his stand to see what shots he had on me. I nailed some sheets of plywood on my side, up in my trees to block any view or shot he might have. You'd be supprised what two sheets of plywood will block when they are 10 ft in front of your face.

Try talking to him... Shouldn't be hard to track him down...

i had one like that i took it down and put it across the fence line

set tree on fire, blame it on lightning.

like that idea

Sounds like something I'd do! Good idea!

Maybe it's a bow hunting set up and he's hunting a trail skirting along that edge. If he's got a thicket and you've got an open bottom, I can almost guarantee you the trail is there. That tree might be his only option. That said, keep him honest come gun season. CD.

call the GW, have them set up the decoy deer across the line on you, he'll shoot it. Problem solved.

troy

GO PEE ON IT EVERYCHANCE YOU GET

Had a guy do exactly that 2 years ago, I nailed a few boxes of dryer sheets to trees on my
property and that seemed to do the trick. I had some wind chimes ready if that didn't work...

HAHAHA WIND CHIMES is a good idea, camo those jokers too

I would sure try to talk to him first; a friendly talk will usually solve problems like that. Who owns the land? If it is a lease from a paper company, most of them have a clause that forbid hunting within a certain distance of the property line.

Had this happen once on some property in Salem. Found a stand on the same tree we had a POSTED sign on and it was facing onto our side. They moved the sign 20ft in and hung their stand.
We left them a nice note stating if they did not move we would contact the GW. They wrote F..You on the note and tacked it to the POSTED sign. We decided to skip the GW and removed the stand, left a note on the tree with phone number, if they wanted the stand back they would have to come get it. Never heard from them again nor ran into them in that area. We tried to "run into" them several times during the season.

What he said.

A few years ago we found stands on the property lines and corn on piled on their side. You could see it easy from our side. Anyway, they were leasing from the paper company, a single phone call took care of it since baiting was against the rules and so was hunting within 50 yards of the property lines. Easy fix.

Another time we had a guy baiting and hunting the line, we simply called the GW and he came in a wrote the man a ticket on the bow season opener. Found out later it was the president of the club. Go figure. It got ugly after that though. The club would walk the line talking loud all the time just to disturb our hunting. My father owned the 40 acres we were on and they had the back boundry. We had killer food plots and they had woods only. With all the GW traffic and the hunting clubs bothering us, we didn't kill squat that year. Really sucked.

I know some good ol Eutaw boys that fired off prolly 200 rounds of 223 opening morning right in front of a stand(occupied!), and then brought their truck down and played the radio VERY loud till the guy left. It got confrontational and near violent before it was over.....but the stand got moved and the arsehole lost his permit to hunt the adjoining land.

I was pulling for a big arse whoopin........

WE own the land and they are in a club. They are not hunting the line because there is not cut line of any type they are hunting over our hollow. I think I will post signs and try to call the club. If they do not move before I get back there to hunt back there I will put up either wind chimes or dry sheets try some of those things. Thanks for all the suggestions guys.