Neighbors hunter is goofy

I have a neighbor who lets one of her kin folk hunt on her place. I guess he thinks I am trying to lure Axis into my place. He has put up scarecrows along the fence and has something the goes off like a shot about every 30 minutes. So now he has me pissed and he has "awoken the sleeping giant".

Wow... Seriously scarecrows?!?

yes, pvc pipe in a tee with a shirts on them. Went to a lot of trouble. And here I am such a nice guy. Only thing I can figure out about the shot noises is it must be one of those things to scare off birds. Uses propane to make a small explosion. The dumb sh*t probably doesn't realize he is scaring them off his lease.

High fence that SOB out.

crow cannon lol hadnt see one of those in years

Once he harvest his "pot" all that may subside

Wouldn't that fall under the hunter harrassment law?...Call the Game Warden and see what happens!
Take pictures and get some audio.

Pics Please!!!!!!

Still over a month away from season if he bow hunts, 2 if he doesn't. Really????

Only if there is an intent to harass/interfere with hunting. Otherwise, there is a lot of leeway as to what people can do on private property where they have permission to be.

Only whitetail hunters can be harassed? Really????

Do you have any stands or feeders near y'alls common fence?

I put one there after he started this just to egg him on.

First he had the camera pointed at my place.

I would ask him wtf he's trying to accomplish. Maybe he just needs some guidance.

This should get interesting the closer the season gets..sound like he is a little paranoid and doesn't trust you

Then came the scare crows

And here is why he is goofy. I have a HF next to him.

That is rather strange

Probably trying to keep critters away from his hidden marijuana grow.

Could be. I know one thing I used to see deer in that place but not with the scar crows and explosions nothing.

Don
i seen them before dos he have dove fields
Seen ppl use propane cannons to keep doves and deer off there fields
till food pots come up good enf

What a dingleberry. He's scaring them from his place too. I've been dealing with the same sort of thing now for about 8-9 years on one of the properties I hunt. After the fifth feeder was destroyed I called the Sheriff on the neighbors teenage son. It will be interesting to see what happens this year.

Maybe he doesnt want any of your deer that are infected with disease to come over and wipe out his herd. You know some people are dumb enough to believe everything they hear. Whatever the reason I would sure love to hear it!

you could really get him jacked up if you had a drone

The old "private property rights" argument deoesn't sound as good in this situation, does it?

I actually think old habits are hard to break is his problem. He is a died in the wool LF person. Now that I have a HF he still thinks he needs to protect "HIS" deer from me.

Maybe some Tannerite practice about 2:30AM

Yeah all that does seem ridiculous given the HF being right there.....

Then the deer would get hungry and come eat your corn stoned!

Weird

I'll throw this one out there and see what you think!

The deer are walking down that road between the low fence and your high fence.
He can't shoot them because they are on your property. Look on the road to see if you can see tracks! That might be why he's doing it, trying to get the deer to turn and jump the fence into his property before they get to the shirts!
That would possibly also explain the camera, in that he is trying to figure out how many deer are using the road to skirt around his blind/property.
As long as there is cover nearby deer will usually take the path of least resistance around an obstacle (fence), and in this case it's the road.
Anyone who has ever hunted along a high fence knows that there will be deer travel trails side by side following the fence.

Why don't you just ask him what's up?

I would put up more elaborate scarecrows. Maybe go buy some manikins and dress them up in lingerie or something.

If you are hunting exotics (Axis) there is no closed season, and you can hunt them year round....Really!!!!

And so may indicate it isn't a deer/hunting issue.

looks to me like his camera mount is the same as the scarecrow maybe he is moving his camera around and is hiding it with the shirts so no one knows which mount is the actual camera location just checking his fence line for any action he should just put a blind on that fence line that's a nice ready made sendera

Only problem is I own the road. Ask him what he is doing? No, I don't really care. As for the camera I talked to the lady that owns the place and got it removed but the scare crows were erected the next day. It will all come to bite them in the butt one of these days. I have a good memory.

So he has woken a sleeping giant but what can you honestly do? Are you trapping axis or something like that to make him act so stupid?

I don't understand why any of this matters to you given the situation. You have a HF all along there-what difference does it make what stupid stuff he does? (And, yes, it is stupid on his part.) He could put up life-sized Bozo the Clown statues every 20 yards and your deer ain't going anywhere...

It doesn't matter to me. I just thought some might be interested in what you have to put up with sometimes. Kinda like if you lived in town and had a neighbor with a camera pointed at your entrance all the time. Or they put out so called scare crows in their yard next to you.

I get where you are coming from, been lucky wit the neighbors on both sides

Is that road locked may have poachers driving that road night hunting!! That would explain the camera.

People are weird.

High fence and a road along the fenceline that is yours.....I say let him have his fun!

This is beyond strange to me.

On a side note you got some nice fences Don.

Why not just put something up as goofy on your side??

No, I think I will put a tall blind in the middle of the road and start corning it.

that should really get his goat.

You wouldn't consider that goofy??

C'mon man! Ask him what's up.

You ask him. You know what happens when you argue with a fool don't you?

lol. Not saying argue with him.

But I would ask him what's up just out of curiosity. Something like "Hey Neighbor, I'm digging the scarecrows. What do you have them scaring...?"

No offence but you must not be from around this area.

No, not from around Bandera and no offence taken. Doesn't sound like a very friendly place though. Also sounds like the scarecrows are only part of the story...

Some are friendly and some aren't. You learn who you can talk to and those you can't. Just like any other place in the world. You learn to live with it.

Are you friendly? I mean I ask because you have talked repeatedly about how pissed off you are, what a dumb sh** he is, how you have a long memory, blah, blah, blah....

All over something that cannot possibly affect you in any way other than possibly give you a chuckle.

Give me his number. I gonna ask him where he got them scarecrows...

Kinda blah blah like you heh np?

How tall is your high fence? It looks kinda short to me

So he took down the camera. What about the noise makers?

i'm not weird, i've been tested. little goofy maybe

The fence is a little over 6'. Just high enough for my Ibex. I have seen deer, Axis and WT jump in and out of it. I am not in the WT business. The weird part about the whole deal is. I bought around 20 acres off that place a few years ago. Part of them selling to me was that I had to buy the road and fence it off. So I built a 5 barb wire fence on their side and a taller fence on my side of the road. 2 other ranches access their property through this road. The property with the noise maker and scare crows is rectangular in shape. 3 sides are HF and the short side is LF. The short side has neighbors that take every deer they can so there is a lot of pressure on deer that would access their property. The noise maker and scare crows are in the back side of the property near the HF's. So it seems as if he wants to actually chase all the deer off the property. And no I am not going to ask him his reason for doing what he is doing. I tried that years ago. The camera was different. I went directly to the land owner with that. The rest of his actions I can live with.

That's goofy all right....

There is just an outside chance (sarcasem) that he may just be hurting his own chances, but obviously he doesn't seem to care about that!

this explains a lot

I rest my case.

Goofy...weird...bizarre! He's obviously willing take his own time/money and disrupt his own hunting/deer population just to mess with you. I'd be irritated too but I'd document and leave it be. Hope it just goes away with time...Good luck!

Are you friendly? I mean I ask because you have talked repeatedly about how pissed off you are, what a dumb sh** he is, how you have a long memory, blah, blah, blah....

All over something that cannot possibly affect you in any way other than possibly give you a chuckle. [/quote] Kinda blah blah like you heh np? [/quote]

I rest my case.[/quote] Hopefully you are not a lawyer. If you are do you income from another source?

I know how you feel in a way. On the lf property I own, the neighbor drives by twice a morning and twice an evening hoping to scare the deer away I guess. Only it helps... Normally he chases the deer into our property and then their attention is focused on him waiting to pass by. He learned last year when I dropped a nice 8 about 75 yards in front of his truck. Anti hunting jerk gets annoying.

Personally, I go buy up all the gut shot burritos I could get at the local picos....eat them....wash them down with a quart of Bordens chocolate milk and wait...once everything begins to churn, I'd mark every place he has put a "scarecrow" that I could....(all at night of course). But that's me...

he got a wife named Dorthy, dog named Toto, lion around with a tin man, named Pluto, following de yellow brick road ta the Wizard of Oz, on a horse of a different color

beware of little guy wondering about de woods, escaped from loony-bin complaining bout depain, depain, boss, d epain .

Still got 5 scare crows and his cannon. I haven't seen a deer on that side of the fence in a few weeks. Looks to be keeping those darn LF deer off his lease.

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he might be doing U a favor Don, keeping your investments from jumping fence. whin ya gonna play in ya gotta have a er in de band. Us loofer's don't get no respect

Take a couple Viagra and walk up and down the road so the camera gets a real nice show.

That was my thought. I'd have had alot of fun with that camera before I said anything, maybe get a bigfoot suit and some stilts. Sounds weird though, those "scarecrows" dont look like they'd accomplish much.

I love neighbors like you got.
I would park an old cattle or horse trailer on the road right in front of his camera (something that can take a little damage and not be a loss). Then I would put burlap over the windows so it flaps in the wind.....maybe a couple of lounge chairs outside, maybe a couple of wind chimes on each side so they always catch the wind....... and of course a fire ring........ cant go campin at the lease without a fire ring, Right?

Lemme know if you need a trailer

Maybe he has heard something negative about you, and wants to keep his dogs from getting close to your property. Doesn't have anything to do with hunting.

If that keeps the dogs away I may put some scare crows myself.