Time to put this one to bed. Well respected members are starting to infight with each other over a fallacy. So here goes, this is all my own research that was piqued by a cryptic post that has since been removed. So lets say you get into stand on Nov. 28 to hunt the last hour of legal shooting light. Go on facebook live and state you're hunting Southern IA and it is the last chance to take a deer after going deerless for the year. Sunset in eastern IA is 4:34PM and western IA is 4:55PM. Sit is largely uneventful and light is fading fast. Just after 5pm you spot 3 does heading towards the fence crossing and decide to take on on facebook live. They hang up just on the otherside of the property line and legal time is nearing if hunting eastern half of IA. The lead doe is 7 yards from hopping the fence. Now or never You decide to take the shot and spine her, drops in her tracks so you have to take a follow up shot before letting facebook know you shot a doe. Neighbors daughter follows on facebook and alerts her dad that you shot across the property line. The next day he walks past a batch of trailcams all pointed into his property along the property line and he shows his displeasure with the doe from the night before and the cameras. Then use those images to start calling him jealous. After suspicion arrives said kill video is deleted from facebook. The end. Paints a bit of a different picture.
Based on this new information I completely understand and it does change the perspective dramatically for sure.
Yes. One place is a manual card check and the other is digital based sign in. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
You sir are absolutely out of your mind. you don’t have of your facts straight. This has nothing to do with that hunt/property. The neighbor to the farm where i shot the doe is the landowners sister/brother. Not the people i referred to. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm guilty of hunting where the bucks are....I hunt the edges of public that most overlook, bodies that provide sanctuary, especially if those edges are hard to reach or isolated...where State Forest connects to State Park, public to a golf course, campground, 4H center, natural center, spots that are marked as habitat or refuge and off limits all together, ect. I usually stay away from the private borders, they're covered up with the private land owners, most of which, act like the public belongs to them also.
I have trouble believing Boober would shoot a doe across a fence line under any circumstance. How many does has Boober passed on this year I wonder. I know people can lose their minds at times when it comes to deer hunting but that seems grossly out of character from a guy I have a lot of respect for on this forum. If he did that then my opinion of him is a little diminished but I refuse to believe it until something better appears.
I have stands on my fence line. It's not because I'm trying to draw deer from the neighbors property on to mine, it's because I have the timber and travel route. The neighbors properties are ag and hay fields. The deer are moving through my property, so I hunt the least invasive way possible, you have to when you hunt small acreage. I can't come and go through the heart of my property and expect to not bust deer out of it. I have a lot of stands on my little 40 acres, but I have to to be able to hunt it right. Certain stands for certain winds. Evening stands and morning stands. Rut stands, early season stands, late season stands. Some of them are on the fence line, but my neighbors and I get along just fine. Hit my buck too far forward this year and had to track him across the neighbors field. No problem, he even let me drive my tractor through the waterway to retrieve my buck. Be kind, communicate and reciprocate, you'd be surprised how much trust that will buy you with your neighbors.
New to the forum and it started off with a bang! I was just gonna put a "i'm just here for the comments" post but here is my 2cents. I have bowhunted various properties in the past 20 years, none that I have owned, I have just gained access by asking permission none the less. IMO it is absolutely busch league to set up a camera on your neighbors fenceline, and to point it on his property to monitor the movement. That's just asking for trouble unless there is an agreement that he/she is ok with it. I understand the hard work and "wanting it" more than any other hunter, but that's where you're obsession with deer is getting you in trouble Boonerville. I've followed thousands of "professional" hunters on facebook that want to make it big. They post their hero shots, "like" each others products, "share" each others products, hell ive seen guys make up secondary profiles and claim themselves as "athletes" for more likes, only to use that secondary profile to like and share more of their stuff lmao. You know how many of that thousand are actually getting paid to hunt now? None. I agree with Fletch. The ethics aren't what they use to be and thankfully my father taught me some ethics. Because legal, and ethical don't always go hand in hand. On a positive note, great forum and website, wish I would of known about this 10 years ago!
Absolutley! It does not mean that I am right, but it feels right for me and that is what counts. I know a lot of guys that will not consider sitting on or near a fence unless they have the blessing of the neighbor on the other side. I definitely don't want to have to tramp all over someone else's sanctuary to recover a deer that I shot too close to his boundary. I know that I would prefer they are not on mine doing the same. Why make enemies when you are supposed to be outside doing something for recreation and pleasure? Fence sitters cause a lot of ill will among landowners and it's just not necessary in most cases. If it is necessary to kill that big buck, maybe it's just not really worth it.
I'd have never posted it had you not deleted the video after mentions of it were made yesterday. Then after I made my post you deleted the other video They were up for 3 weeks without a care until the assertions came to light. Doesn't really bother me either way, I live in IL. I just got tired of resepected members going back and forth over something that was made to be what it was not. Good luck with the neighbor, hope it all gets sorted out.
I could go either way on this, adding fuel, lol. You have to milk a fun discussion like this for all it's worth, lol...they don't come around very often. I just can't see hunting a property line as a "ethical" debate...I can see it as a "common courtesy" or lack there of issue. The unique divisions and culture's in this awesome country, will cause some culture shock to those who aren't thrown about it on a regular basis. I've been fortunate enough to travel all over the country and interact with the natives (lol) for over twenty years now. The farther north you go, the less common...courtesy becomes, almost to the point of being nonexistent in certain areas. And the farther south you go, the more common...courtesy becomes, almost to a fault, in rural areas of the deep south....just a strange and irrelevant observation.
Brett, I would appreciate it if you would point your camera back on your side of the property line. What me and my friends do Saturday nights is none of your damn business.
