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Plant a bean and corn field on the line, watch your neighbors build a shooting house on the line.

I play this game a bit, too. I've got a small field planted on a power line ROW that sits right on the corner of 3 properties. I am legally hunting my land, but I am right up against it. It's the only flat spot on the entire ROW for a plot, so it is what it is. I only face my property and will not shoot over the line.

I fully understand that if one of my neighbors decided they wanted to hunt their properties one day (they currently do not hunt), that they could legally set up a ladder stand, shooting house, etc right across the line and technically wait for the deer that are trying to enter/exit my field. If this situation occurs I will not take the effort, time, and money to plant a plot there anymore and find somewhere else to go. Simple as that.

You should have planted your field with the same understanding. And it seems like you knew your neighbors were active hunters, too. I would never plant a plot close to a line where I knew active hunting was occurring. That's on you.