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You're arguing against yourself. Ethics and morals are in the eye of the beholder. I think it is unethical to shoot stupid, easy to kill, immature, young bucks before the reach maturity. There's no challenge to killing a first or second year buck other than being able to pull the trigger and shoot straight. That's my personal opinion. I don't fault or look down on anyone for what they want to shoot or not shoot. That's a personal decision for each of us to make on our own.

Everybody should have the right to do what they want to do with their property. The neighbor is interfering with Brad's right to try to grow the best deer he can. Brad wants to grow deer, the other guy wants to shoot whatever he wants. Other guy has the absolute right to hunt right on the line if he wants to. Brad in turn has the right to do everything that he wants to do on his side of the line to protect the deer he's growing so that they can reach older age classes. Both have rights and both can do whatever they want as long as it is legal and on their own property. Brad can fence the other guy out if he wants to. It's perfectly legal. You're essentially saying that the other guy's right to kill anything he wants trumps Brads right to try to grow older deer on his property. The other guy has no right to deer on Brads property just like Brad doesnt have a right to the deer on the other guy's property. That guy can kill the hell out of every deer he sees on his property if he wants to, and Brad can let them all walk on his property. If the other guy is smart, he'll move off the line and everyone will be happy. If he doesnt, then he has to deal with the consequences of his decision to put the house there which might mean a nice tall fence between him and where the deer are coming and going to to feed.
Brad is not fencing in the state's deer. They are free to move as they please, he would just be limiting where they can and cannot cross over onto the other property. That's Brad's right just like it is the other guy's right to shoot what he wants. If he wants to kill a bunch of deer, maybe he should spend some time and money improving his habitat so that he holds them on his property, like Brad has done. The other guy has 200 acres of cutover to hunt. There is a reason as to why he set that shooting house up on the line between his property and Brad's 8 acre food plot that doesnt get hunted. I can promise you it's not because it's the only place on his 200 acres he can hunt. He's trying to take advantage of Brad's management activities and the deer he's growing. He can do that and Brad can combat it. Both are legal in doing so.