re: Deer hunting assholes; need to vent: pics added on page 3

Holy shite I'm glad I've never had to deal with stuff like this.

The only thing close was when I went to hunt on a friends property. It's got a hunting club crescent around his property. I walk to my stand and there a big Dow under my stand. I let her leave hoping a buck will follow her scent before I get in it.

Well, 30 minutes into the hunt I hear dogs in the distance. Aparetly they smelled her bc they came straight to my stand and howled for a good 5-10 minutes under me. I put my scope on one bc I was pissed but I wasnt going to shoot a dog.

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I am going in my stand this weekend and will shoot every living fricking thing I see if he is in that stand

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do this

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My dad owns 65 acres of land, mostly a strip 96 feet wide.

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That's a little mind numbing there. That means his strip is like 96' x ~30,000' -- give or take since you said mostly.

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My dad owns 65 acres of land, mostly a strip 96 feet wide.

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This is your problem. You are hunting a place about as wide as a football field yet expect privacy. It's not going to happen. If you want privacy and exclusive rights to an area much larger, buy a lot more land or join a club. Don't expect your neighbor to alter what he does on his land in order to accommodate you.

But yea I understand the frustration. I have one plot of land similar to yours with rather active neighbors. Eventually I had to just accept the fact that it is their land, not mine, and my hunting is going to be affected at times. I suggest talking with the guy and see if you can work something out to keep from scaring the deer away from each other. But don't go in with an attitude like if he has to do things your way or he will tune you out and mess up your hunting just to spite you. Find common goals and talk about those.

I'm thinking the lad needs a mentoring. Invite him to the campfire, get him drunk as frick, then start mocking him for shooting baby deer while you slide the conversation to management.

I know the guy is an a-hole but if you want to change his behavior that's your best bet. He might just not know any better. You go all rambo on a dipshit like that and you can bet your arse that from now on, if it's brown it's down forever. This is a job for maturity at this point. And manipulation. Sucks but there ya go. Might not be a bad guy. Just might be ignorant.

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My dad owns 65 acres of land, mostly a strip 96 feet wide

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That's one long strip of land! About 5 and a half miles long...sounds more like a powerline ROW.

so you meant 196' wide not 96' right?

THE ARPENT: French Unit of Measure
Ordinary measurement used by Government Surveyors in South Louisiana.
Various areas and dimensions are given for the arpent
General Land Office Report of 1869, pg. 406, gives under the heading, Superficial Measure,

1 arpent = 0.8507 acres; 1 arpent and 17.551 perches= 1 acre.
1 mile square contains 725 arpents and 32.64 perches or 640 acres.
And Others Give: 1 arpent= 2.9172 chains, 192.24 ft., or 0.848398 of an acre,
10 perches= 1 arpent.
taken from a pamphlet produced by Orres Leblanc, Ckerk of Court- Iberia Parish

In the time of the French, property usually ran 40 arpents back from the river or bayou.

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The properties run 1/2 arpent wide

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i missed that. honestly, i can understand your frustration, however, your land is only 30 yds. wide. i dont see what you can do, its thier land to do with as they please. you and your pops should have bought the adjacent land when you had the opportunity.