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thanks for the advice- I think I will wire the fence higher even though he can still shoot over the fence because his stand overlooks a nice valley. Behind his stand is an open field, I mean he is really only hunting about 15
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yards of trees. (I guess thats the reason he's pointed over the fence.) Anyway I think I'll just put other few strands of wire up and walk to one of my stands from that direction. I'm sure he's a good guy but does'nt understand how much hunting means to me. I bet he would'nt like it if I brought some cattle over to his farm and let them feed whenever I wanted.
 
The bottom line is if the stand is not on your property there is nothing you can do about it. It's one of those situations where hopefully someone takes the high road. If you arrive at your stand and the bordering landowner is in his stand, choose another stand site, and hopefully your neighbor does the same.
I know some people can't be reasoned with, and in that case harvesting a deer is not worth an altercation.
 
QDMer,
I think that you are just going to have to grin and bear it. First of all, if you are not from the area and have come and bought ground just for hunting then you are going to make some local hunters unhappy. It comes with the territory. I could see a disgruntled hunter doing this just to erk you! He may never have intentions of hunting out of the stand, but knowing that it being there will drive you crazy and make you go out of your way to do something about it will make his day. I think you are just going to have to live with it and learn to ignore it. On a related note, isn't QDM in SE Iowa an oxymoron? Maybe around places like the Moore Ranch I could see.
 
I don't think you should learn to just live with it. While I agree that the high road is the best to take, I wouldn't be afraid of confrontation. If those guys want to hunt they should have ponied up and bought the land.
 
we had the same incidence occur on our lease in SC- it seemed that there was a treestand placed on the fence line their side overlooking our field 'good spot planted and great cover into it' not much open to shoot at on their side they kept shooting deer our side-then it seems that everytime someone was up in that stand the field edges got mowed!
that is after several discussion with them-they moved on-
 
I don't think who owns the land has much to do with the problem. Whether one owns the land, or simply has permission to hunt the property gives the individual the right to be on their respective pieces of property. Confrontation over a deer is not a good idea, especially considering both parties are armed. Fence rows, fence lines where properties and different types of vegetation meet are deer magnets. Work out the problem like gentlemen. I read in one instance the two parties actually worked out a schedule between them.
 
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