Critr-Gitr

Around here we have a saying thatsays "good fences make good neighbors." Most folks tend to agree with it. Really what it means, is respect your neighbors property, which most do pretty well. I don't have trouble with any of my neighbors, if I need to track or recover game I just give them a call, they do the same, justout of courtesy. But then again, we are talking mainly about large tracts of open country, I could see where it might get difficult in more compressed lots.

Rick James

I have a good mix. Dan does as well in NY.

Have I told you Jeff that one of my favorite stands on Dan's property is coined the "Dumper" stand? It's on a corner where Dan's property, public property, and a third property owner all come together. 2x years ago I was sitting in that stand when a hunter from the third property owner came right to the line, dropped his trousers, and pinched off a loaf right in front of me. Much to my horror, he realized I was there halfway through and didn't seem to care in the least.......just finished his business and went on his way after.There is nothing I can remember in my life more uncomfortable and awkward than eye contact from another man that is pooping. [&:]

At my place I have about 8x neighboring landowners......some good some bad.

One neighborwe have a wounded pursuit only agreement with, but he also won't shoot a buck unless it's 8 points and wider than it's ears. He's known in town as being a PITA, but that's only because when he finds trespassers he looses his cool. He's the best neighbor I could wish for. He has around 100 acres that I know of and also has food plots, etc.

Another neighbor supposedly gave us "exclusive" permission to hunt this year, but turns out 2x more were given permission to hunt during rifle season. No one can archery or turkey hunt there except Dan and I at this point which is good. I'm really consideringto offer him a lease next year though to give us exclusive access. Problem here is thata LOT of people trespass on his patch and/or hunt right on the line of his property which will be difficult to monitor. I'm hopefully going to be able to minimize this next year,I already know that at least one person shot a deer with no permission off his patch this year.......less than 150 yards from one of my food plots. [:@]

We have a crew of other neighbors that trespassed for years on the property before I started managing it and before we posted it, but it seems that their traffic has at least been minimized. They still trespass though occasionally, but it only seems to happen during rifle season.The last weekend I was there I found their tracks in the snow walking right through the main sanctuary area that I keep off limits except the last week of archery season......... I haven't caught them in person yet but I will be prosecuting them when I do and can't wait for the day.

One other neighbor seems to give permission to everyone and their brother to hunt, and because it's all steep sidehill with an old road on top of it on our side of the line they like to walk our side and hunt it. This is where I caught the one trespasser during our rifle season this year, and where I got pictures of another while he tampered with my camera.

There is also an old dirt path that is "technically" a town road that runs right through one of the best parts of the property that technically anyone can walk through, even though we own both sides of it.Hopefully soon we will legally be able to havethis gated and can restrict access to it though. There is a landlocked landowner that has 6 acres back in there that forces the town to not technically abandon this road and turn it over to us, but hopefully one of these days he will accept our bid on that land and sell out, giving us the ability to have the town road officially closed. As of today, this landlocked landowner has turned down bids from us that are approximately 200% above the real value of the property, because he's delusional and thinks that he can sell it in 1 acre lots and turn into a development (it's swamp land for the most part and would never perc test). He's VERY old though and I have a feeling when he kicks the bucket his kids will cash out quickly on our offer.

130woodman

My neighbor does a lot of work around my place Planting, checking camera's, helps with the atv trails. He is more welcome to hunt my property then some of my other hunting partners. The gut across the street is another story. If I caught him on mine he is going to jail.

GMMAT

We should start a support group.

Germ

Be looking into eye of one who just poached a deer

rybohunter

While not from a landowner's point of view, my situation is such.I am allowed to hunt on the neighboring properties of the main land I have access to, but usually I don't stray too far off. Because my landowner doesn't really let them on his, unless its to go after a deer. BUT during gun season things turn into a free for all, and i just try to steer clear of everything. Now there's the neighbors of the neighbors....those will land you in hot water should you try to cross the line.

Edited to add:
There are only 2 hunters I get along with on the other properties. Super nice guys, known them for a while as aquaintances. Everyone else I really have no time for, not people who I am proud to share the woods with. We'll leave it at that.

GMMAT

I think it was the same guy.....same day, for me, Germ. I heard him shoot on this Thursday....and found this, Saturday.

HuntinGUS

Yes. I have one neighbor that would let me hunt his stand if I asked. He is great. My other neighbors are not so liberal, but they are respecable and we get along fine.

Oneneighbor............. a gun hunter.........."imagine that"waited on me at my gate just to ask if he could walk on my property to look for a deer he had shot. I thought they were all trespassing slob hunters..... Although we don't hunt each others land, we have get along fine.

I have another neighbor that will let go get a deer if it runs on them. He is a little wierd and will not let anyone hunt the property. The property is tied up in a family dispute and he happens to live there ont he property........350 acres. His cousin who lives 35 miles away gave us written permission to hunt it, but since our camp neighbors the man who don't want us to hunt,...........we don't. We didn't feel right going against our neighbors wishes. I ask and will continue to ask him every year.

All in all we get along just fine.

Talondale

I have great neighbors and 2of 3 are absentee owners. I can hunt on one's property and retrieve game on all 3. All nice guys.

davidmil

Well right now it's not a concern. I tell you though, I've had them both ways and every place in between the Good, The Bad and the down right UGLY. My best advice is to make contact early and just say hello. Tell them who you are and where you'll be. Depending on the meeting depends a lot on which of the above options I'd choose. With many years of experience and having seen all sorts of things, my advice would be NOT to jump in bed with anyone right away no matter how they seem. Take baby steps in the beginning. If they enquire about hunting or trailing I'd defer until a later date if I could. On tracking in the beginning I'd make it a "give me a call". That might seem unfriendly to some but it's harder to get out of a bad situation than it is to get in it. I don't care if they have 1000 acres and you only have a hundred. Sometimes it's simply best to keep them separate. That's so probably most of the time to be honest. There are more bad stories than good. After you've had a chance to stop and say hello a couple more times and see how well they can follow the boundries/rules... you could loosen up. The biggest problems are usually people that have always considered YOUR place their woods until you showed up. They get offended that you don't honor their 20 years of traspassing. Even the best of situations can be bad when people have different ideas about things like hunting someone elses stand etc.