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Too much drama.My philosophy is that if you own the property, you should be able to do whatever you want on any inch of what you own and your neighbors should too. I'd have no issue with a neighbor putting a shooting house on their property on the line but to put it on the line with a window set up so he can watch out onto and possibly shoot my 7 acre sanctuary field would be unacceptable to me. Deer make people do stupid things. Remember the story about CAL's daughter sitting in the shooting house on his managed property and the jack leg neighbor selling hunts on the adjacent property shot a buck right under her nose in CAL's field while she was sitting there filming it. The temptation is too much for some. Rather than do the feeder deal, wind chimes and all that crap, if his house is only 10 ft off the line, get you five 10' 4x4 posts and 5 4x8 sheets of plywood. just put up a 20x8 plywood wall behind the house, at the same height as his window, right on your line and he will not be able to see or shoot your field. Problem solved. He hunts his property and you hunt yours.

Did you try to talk to him about it? That's the first thing that I would have done. Good fences make good neighbors but good relations between adjacent neighbors or clubs generally work even better. If he's an okay guy with good intentions, he would probably board up that window if you asked him about it and expressed your concern to him. I know I would. If he refuses to board it up, then you can assume that maybe his intentions might not be good and that he is wanting to watch your field and or possibly shoot across onto your property. At that point just install the cheap plywood wall on your side of the line behind his house and be done with it. You enjoy your property and let him enjoy his.

We've got a field on a corner of our property that is visible from a county maintained dirt road. We plant a 20 ft wide screen of Egyptian wheat along the road every year as a cover screen to eliminate the temptation of someone seeing something and being tempted to shoot off the road and onto our property in a direct line with our shooting house which is occupied on a pretty regular basis.