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kbnelson3

kbnelson3

Supporter of Landowners
So last night I'm out making my usual glassing rounds on some fields that border our farm because I didn't feel like dropping down into the valley to check ours. There's 5 minutes of light left, and I'm watching roughly 40 deer feed in an alfalfa field with a couple bucks that are at or pushing Boone. i notice towards the end of this gravel road(becomes private road at the end) there's a truck also glassing. All of a sudden, the truck is driving towards me, honking his horn in an attempt to scatter the deer from the field, which is a success. After a few minutes of awkward following and turning around, i block them at the end of the gravel and flag them down to talk. it ended up being the guy who owned the field, a house, and a little land around it. After he figured out who he was, he was apologetic and I politely let it go. But talking to him just made me sick. He was concerned about people out looking at "his" deer. Mind you, this is a public road, and he's saying nobody has "business" being back there beside my family or him and another neighboring landowner. This idea that because you buy the land, you "own" the deer is getting to be absurd. What makes this worse, is that the man, his brother, and another man that owns land with them have done this to not only me, but several other people driving on the public road. The guy even said he was mad about an elderly couple viewing elk that had escaped from a game farm in his field, saying they should go look at them in a pen if they want to see elk in iowa.

A little backstory, this guy and his brother moved from Wisconsin to Iowa just for deer hunting. Good for them. But does that make it acceptable to accost everyone traveling a certain part of a road because they're viewing "your" deer? Is that the new thing to do, keep highly visible deer from the viewing public because they don't own the land?
 
I hear yah there. People are crazy. I swear everyone thinks just because you are pulled over along side of the road looking at deer they all think you are a poacher. I just like looking at deer. A lot of people have the attitude if its not on your property you have no right looking at deer on anothers. I would like those same people to drive by our farm, see a 190ncher 75 yards out in our bean field and not stop and take a look. Who wouldn't stop. I wouldn't call you a hunter if you didn't :) To each their own I guess.
 
Sounds like he need to put up a screen if he does not want people looking as the deer, my farm is at the end of a dead end road, but if people want to drive down it I cannot stop them. I can plant stuff on the fenceline to keep them from looking in if I do not like it. :D
 
Lol..Sounds like 10 guys a night need to drive down the road , drive real slow, and park every night for a month. He will tire of his game when he realizes that his attempts are futile at blocking people from engaging in legal activities, he will sell his land, and move back.
 
Shoot, play his game right back! Scare those deer every night FOR HIM, and see how many are still there in a week or two... You'd just be doing him a favor, right? Ridiculous...
 
A little backstory, this guy and his brother moved from Wisconsin to Iowa just for deer hunting. Good for them. But does that make it acceptable to accost everyone traveling a certain part of a road because they're viewing "your" deer? Is that the new thing to do, keep highly visible deer from the viewing public because they don't own the land?
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Sounds to me like it's time for a legal easement to that little piece of our State's public hunting ground that sits in "the middle" of your guy's little honey hole.;):way:
 
I had a very similar incident happen just last night! People are rediculous and you can guarantee that any free night I get I will be out there looking for deer and pushing his buttons.
 
That's out of hand for sure. I would say if I was that guy, I would screen the ground. I would SUSPECT he doesn't want folks glassing, etc because he thinks it will attract poachers and tresspassers. he's probably CORRECT but he is going about it the WRONG WAY. What you described is insane. He would be best off planting trees, egyptian wheat, miscantheus or corn SO he could keep the attention off his place, hopefully keep the deer safe and not be an idiot.
So, understand he's probably trying to stop poachers/tresspasser BUT the guy is an idiot.
 
There are guys a lot worse than him out there. Last summer we had been seeing a monster 8 point in a bean field across from a well known "physco's" house. We ended up throwing the spotting scope up on him one night and sat there for awhile admiring that buck. After awhile I heard a plink plink. I looked at my buddy and was like "wtf was that?" about that time two more rounds ring off. Then the lead hits in the ditch in front of where we were viewing. Needless to say we ducked and hauled ass, giving him the satisfaction he wanted. People are crazy.. However, he has had a lot of sleepless nights trying to load that .22 when the spotlights hit his bedroom windows at 2 am. :D
 
I was over there again last night when I was stopped on the same road by a landowner who lived a half mile away! he already had one truck stopped interrogating the man when I rolled up. After about the 5th question, he figured out who owned the entire valley behind him and was apologetic. But jesus, this is getting out of hand. I'm as anti-poacher as the next guy, but if they're "your" deer, why not just high fence it? I'm assuming because then bucks from the bigger surrounding properties wouldn't move into the smaller properties of the psychotic neighbors.
 
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