re: Neighbor put ground blind and feeder on the property line--he has 10 acres bordering 150

if his blind is on a corner, build a big privacy fence that surrounds just that corner so he cannot hunt your property from that corner.

No.

I am not going to say no now.

I am going to want the deer and only because I know there is very good chance he shot it on my property. Now if he had been hunting the season up in the middle of his property and shot a deer that ran on my property I might believe it and go help him get it.

I figure if he knows I am going to ask for the deer then he will suddenly become a better shot and there will be very few deer wounded. I suspect the location of his feeder would change over night.

With all of the readily available information out there, it is truly amazing that people still do not know how to hunt on a property line.

For those that do not: set up on the line with the stand facing into your property. Close back window so that you cannot shoot into neighbor’s property. Yes, this means you could theoretically have two stands back to back both facing inward. It’s by far the safest way to hunt a property line.

Common, but incorrect, mistake: place stand 50-100 yards off the line, but facing the line. That’s dangerous as shite.

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10 or 12 foot wide

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Thats plenty wide enough. You are the one being unreasonable right now.

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I am going to want the deer and only because I know there is very good chance he shot it on my property.

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Kennabruh would whip the shite out of you if you took his deer

Just as a hunter can blood trail a deer from where it was shot, a deer can also be backtrailed. If the dead deer is on your property, ask him where he shot it. The blood trail should lead back towards his property. If it does, he's in the right, if not he's in the wrong and shot it on your place. Even game wardens can follow a blood trail in either direction, and ascertain where a deer was shot.

He can call the warden himself, show where it was shot and the evidence will show where the deer was shot. Hair, blood, chunks of meat, etc will be present where the deer was shot.

You're looking to make an enemy of someone legally positioned to hunt his own property. If I was you I'd carry some good insurance on your mixed timber. It might mysteriously go up in flames. You do what you wish, pretty sorry of one man to tag another man's legally taken deer.

At what point am I unreasonable?

The guy has maybe 600 square feet of open shooting lanes on his property and probably 10000 square feet on mine.

Where would you think he plans to shoot? Particularly if he called you July about “retrieving wounded deer.”?

Attitudes like yours are why more and more private land owners are tired of deer hunters and why Mississippi passed those property line restrictions.

This always boils down to “he’s gonna shoot my deer”

You have no reason to accuse him of shooting deer on your property but in your mind you’ve already convinced yourself he is a poacher.

I have already told him not to hunt my property.

I will take care of it. Every one of my other neighbors are welcome on my property. Hell I would probably let them hunt on my property.

This bozo is simply pushing the limit. He has another absentee owner next to him that borders me too and he has been very nice.

You run your property and I’ll run mine.