DwightD123
Silver Member
Looking for some tactful advice here. This past deer season I had my property squeezed in several directions by guys setting up right on the property line. In most cases they were legal on some it crossed. For those I put a very friendly note asking them to move their stands to where it did not cross property lines. I don't want to be an A-hole and start any wars but I don't want next season to be like this. I have already made contact with who I can and expressed my views for us to give each other some breathing room. Not sure if they are buying into it so I want to be prepared for next year.
If anyone has ideas that will channel deer away from specific areas that is what I would prefer. I have been thinking about felling trees and placing them on the draws these guys sat up on this year as well as clearing the edgelines while letting the interior grow up a bit. I think this will force the deer in different direction and keep them inside a bit more during hunting pressure.
Just to give some insight I have 40 acres and the other hunters have 150,230 and 80 acres so I don't have the only decent place to hunt.
Again I want to avoid going down the war path like setting up stands right where they are, setting up alarm clocks, etc...
I would rather be more passive about it. If it gets stupid and they get pushy I can always take it up a notch but I think I can handle this in a better way and still get the desired results.
Thoughts and ideas are appreciated.
If anyone has ideas that will channel deer away from specific areas that is what I would prefer. I have been thinking about felling trees and placing them on the draws these guys sat up on this year as well as clearing the edgelines while letting the interior grow up a bit. I think this will force the deer in different direction and keep them inside a bit more during hunting pressure.
Just to give some insight I have 40 acres and the other hunters have 150,230 and 80 acres so I don't have the only decent place to hunt.
Again I want to avoid going down the war path like setting up stands right where they are, setting up alarm clocks, etc...
I would rather be more passive about it. If it gets stupid and they get pushy I can always take it up a notch but I think I can handle this in a better way and still get the desired results.
Thoughts and ideas are appreciated.