Anyone think he could be dumb enough to not know what a game trail is and thinks the fence is being pulled apart by humans crossing hence the no trespassing sign? Kinda strange.

I just spit tea across the room....this is PRICELESS!!!!

Had a friend with a quarter section farm in central Texas. Deer poured out of the wooded places across the road into his fields dawn and dusk to eat his crops. I put a stand up overlooking his pond and a field. Neighbor's to the south would start running chain saws if I was in the stand.

P Oed my land owner. We fabricated a light weight styrofoam dummy and it worked several days until they wished up (or gave out ?). Anyway, all I wanted from that place was a tasty fat doe or two for wife's mom's freezer.

Jack

IF you really wanted to bug them toss a few empty shell casings on the ground

have him over for steak dinner. see if he'll spill his guts about what's under his skin.

Relay this to the landowner and leave it alone. I'd be pretty upset if my lessee decided to take matters into his own hands with a neighboring landowner.

Interesting! Some here have suggested doing the same thing to their neighbors who are set up on the fence-lines.

No [censored]? Driving down his fence line, shooting a buncha does right at dark, & he gets upset. Who knew?

are you implying I am in the wrong here?

You can't fix stupid.

You just said you were driving fence line shooting does. While that it legal, it's in very poor taste. how would you like your neighbors driving your fence line shooting a buncha does about dark?

Looks like they left a note, I'm curious what it said.

I am sorry if you misread what I wrote, but I said was driving the fence line to get some doe we had shot...not driving and shooting along the fence. I was driving the fenceline to stay out of the wheat field as much as possible. First time I had shot any doe on this place, and there is a pretty regular driving route around the edge of most ag fields I have been around...anyway, the doe were shot well within the legal shooting times per state of texas. we didn't drive out to get them until well after shooting time was up. Not that it would matter, the owners of the property in question were not there nor have they been there all season when I have been hunting except for the one time they drove around their property right around sunset, as described in my initial post, which I wrote off as them enjoying their land.

I happened across these chairs tied to the fence, it wasn't like they put them there while we were out hunting. I have hunted this piece of field pretty regularly and never have seen anyone on the property in question. I found it funny they did what they did, with no reason for it other than a blind and a feeder in the field to their south...if I am wrong here please tell me how...

So, were you shooting towards their place when you shot the doe?

How many deer have you shot there? How much acreage?

Well you mentioned that most deer come from their property, so that may upset them. But, as long as your billets stay on your side of the fence you are all good!

Do you live there or own the place in question? There were two shots all season fired toward their property, both ended up in the opposite side shoulder of the deer being shot at, and the deer were over 150 yards into my lease and both shots had a back drop into a thicket of trees and a dirt bank about 6 feet tall, so no way any bullets were going into their property.

I don't need to justify to you the deer taken off this place, for one, there is no way for anyone other than the land owner to know how many deer have been taken (since I have to tell him each animal which is shot, but two there has been no one anywhere around when the deer have been shot. SO there is no way this action by the neighbor was in reaction to me shooting the place up, it was simply a reaction to seeing a blind and a feeder in a field. I can tell you the place (all the surrounding land) is crawling with deer. We saw 39 in the last sit. The lease is 200 acres Low fence, as all the properties are around.

But since you asked, I have shot 3 doe and 1 buck. I have passed up a ton of deer this year, younger bucks and a busted up older buck that will be a dandy next year if he makes it. There are lots of other deer out there we never see but on camera. You can argue about my "management" practices all you want, but bottom line is I lease the place and I follow the rules of the lease. If I ever considered owning the place (I won't, nor would I buy it if offered) I would be more concerned about the practices of my neighbors, but as it is, I just inform the land owner and he laughed it off like most on here did...the surrounding neighbors have been a little unwelcome to someone hunting this property, maybe because they don't want someone dipping into "their" resource or maybe they are anti, I have no idea, but I have not done anything to incite any actions toward the land owner or myself.

The place I hunt is a wheat field, and the deer travel from all around to come eat. I see deer regularly go form the property in question south across the street and then come back in the am, seems the little 20-30 acre thicket these deer love is a resting spot but certainly not the only place the deer frequent or travel to/from.

And I am very cautious about any bullets going off property. I don't own the land and anything I do reflects on him, so I make sure my hunting practices are a good reflection on him. I have moved stands and blinds well within the confines of my lease to appease neighbors, for no reason other than to avoid conflict with the land owner and neighbors. Seems just the thought of having a hunter on the property is enough to keep these neighbors upset enough to pull elementary school antics like bugeeing a fold up chair to the fence along game trails....

Sounds like you have a good plan & a good thing going. It'd be nice to see that many deer.

Most likely, your neighbors are just not used to you. Have you met them?

Maximus, I think it's just that, no one has hunted this property for many years and now all of the sudden someone is....I have not met them but probably won't since they aren't ever thee. I wouldn't hesitate to say hi if they were by the fence when I was there, but not going to go on their property to go say hi either...with all the no trespassing signs up and all.