seeth07
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So something has been eating at me and I haven't entirely decided if I want to say or do anything. Looking for any opinions from any of you east coast folks that have dealt with this before.
My wife and I own and sort of lease thru a reduced tillable rent on ours to have a total of about 200 acres to hunt behind our house. About 150 of it is tillable across 4 separate fields so it isn't like a big woods but all pieces between fields and a large 30ish acre piece in the middle of quality habitat. It's really a great setup with fantastic bedding.
For a couple years, we have not entirely by choice but due to full freezers of elk and moose haven't needed to kill any deer at all. We've been just holding out for the largest bucks and it just hasn't connected for one reason or another.
Deer in general do not travel much west or east do to vast open fields but they certainly travel north and south.
To our north, the few neighbors there are great and shoot what I would consider an appropriate deer/acre ratio - bucks and does.
To our south, there are mainly three neighbors, one that owns a large 450 acres of mostly marsh, another that owns 800 acres of ag fields and marsh/woods and one that owns a 20 acres woods directly south of us.
The two with 450 and 800 acres are old school mindset and only shoot bucks. They shoot their fair amount and generally take some quality bucks.
Here is where my issue comes in. The 20 acre neighbor historically has claimed there are no deer. Part of this is because its a pretty open woods and part of it is the deer just typically stay in the marsh east of it. They normally get 2 to 5 deer a year and its never been an issue. This year we had a great population of deer including 6 quality bucks (130 to 160 range or so). It was the most fun bow hunting we have ever had and no excuse why there aren't 3 of them dead but both my wife and I suck (we missed).
The neighbor with 20 acres harvested so far 23 deer with only 5 being bucks and only 1 being one of the 6.
My feelings are that this neighbor is being disrespectful to us neighbors by being so greedy and completely wiping out this nice herd.
Am I crazy? I get its their land and they can do what they want.
So things I could do are they have an easement thru my property with some specific language that would hurt their current use. I don't want to go there as I would be a complete dick in doing so and end up no better than what they are doing.
I'd like to just talk to them about it but I'm confident I'm going to get the finger basically and them saying too bad.
There are some major trails that go into the woods and I could block those up and it would be pretty effective to skirt the deer around their woods as well...again a dick move I know
My wife and I own and sort of lease thru a reduced tillable rent on ours to have a total of about 200 acres to hunt behind our house. About 150 of it is tillable across 4 separate fields so it isn't like a big woods but all pieces between fields and a large 30ish acre piece in the middle of quality habitat. It's really a great setup with fantastic bedding.
For a couple years, we have not entirely by choice but due to full freezers of elk and moose haven't needed to kill any deer at all. We've been just holding out for the largest bucks and it just hasn't connected for one reason or another.
Deer in general do not travel much west or east do to vast open fields but they certainly travel north and south.
To our north, the few neighbors there are great and shoot what I would consider an appropriate deer/acre ratio - bucks and does.
To our south, there are mainly three neighbors, one that owns a large 450 acres of mostly marsh, another that owns 800 acres of ag fields and marsh/woods and one that owns a 20 acres woods directly south of us.
The two with 450 and 800 acres are old school mindset and only shoot bucks. They shoot their fair amount and generally take some quality bucks.
Here is where my issue comes in. The 20 acre neighbor historically has claimed there are no deer. Part of this is because its a pretty open woods and part of it is the deer just typically stay in the marsh east of it. They normally get 2 to 5 deer a year and its never been an issue. This year we had a great population of deer including 6 quality bucks (130 to 160 range or so). It was the most fun bow hunting we have ever had and no excuse why there aren't 3 of them dead but both my wife and I suck (we missed).
The neighbor with 20 acres harvested so far 23 deer with only 5 being bucks and only 1 being one of the 6.
My feelings are that this neighbor is being disrespectful to us neighbors by being so greedy and completely wiping out this nice herd.
Am I crazy? I get its their land and they can do what they want.
So things I could do are they have an easement thru my property with some specific language that would hurt their current use. I don't want to go there as I would be a complete dick in doing so and end up no better than what they are doing.
I'd like to just talk to them about it but I'm confident I'm going to get the finger basically and them saying too bad.
There are some major trails that go into the woods and I could block those up and it would be pretty effective to skirt the deer around their woods as well...again a dick move I know
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