There is one in Huntsville!

Think its on Hwy 75

Yep there is one.

Whatchu doing around Huntsville? Prison?

Not tempting fate by driving through Huntsville...

Its pretty serious.. you can see it standing over the pine trees for miles before you even get close

Darn I forgot my bullets, I'm going to have to go back down to the truck and grab them...ouch! Or worse, TP after a few coffees, would be a hell of a climb down with one knocking at the door.

If the terrain looked the same on both sides of the fence, would the guy still have put his stand and feeder there? That's my biggest problem with it, he wouldn't. He knows because he's got a wide open pasture with no cover he has to put his setup as close to his neighbors as he can. If you want to deer hunt your neighbors fence line because you have no deer population because of the decisions you made by clearing your place out and putting in a coastal field that won't support deer... That's bs. Hunt the carrying capacity of your land. That means quit cramming 12 hunters into a 400 acre pasture that has a deer density of 1 to 20 acres.

You make a lot of assumptions. Maybe it's someone poor guys lease and its all he could afford. H may not be the one that cleared it t all, he's just working with what's he's got.

I am a HUGE believer in individual landowner rights. You do as you please on your land and I'll do the same on mine. I'm about the only landowner that deer hunts. Some of my 5 to 10 acre neighbors with land adjoining mine are anti hunting and choose to start target practicing on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons. Irritating? Yep. Rude? Of course. I have heard that there are laws involving hunter harassment. But I'm not going to try to tell them what to do.

I've considered retaliating by starting shooting somewhere around 5 in the morning when the season ends but that's just not my style.

I agree. Legal? Yes. Unethical? Yes. Our neighbors don't pull stunts like this and neither do we. Poor form is right. Of course your neighbor has no cover at all. Not your fault.

I read through most of the post in this thread and many say that fella doesn't have any cover? how do you know with that one photo?? I wouldn't like that set up and bet you would get very little out of speaking to that hunter, BTW it does appear that that hunter has at least angled the feeder away from the lateral fence line and not directly towards your property.

It may be worth getting to know them in any event, just so y'all can size up each other. Could be a guy that only hunts once or twice with his kid IDK, but a bunch of assumptions being made with only 1 photo

Naahhh.... it is just a knee jerk reaction to someone hunting their deer. No one wants their deer shot unless they shoot them.

Then they need to "Tag", "their" deer!!

That would be so much easier..think about it. If every wild game animal had a tag on it then no need for guides or outfitters. You self guide yourself. You purchase or draw a permit and it will have a tag(s) number on it for your species. You pay the same set fee per animal as everyone else. They tell you what you can shoot and when. They tell you where it is and you have to hunt it. You can hunt it anywhere it lives on private or public. No need for game laws, GW's, state DNR or wildlife dept. You will be told what you can kill and when. Now serving...... It would be kinda like the Ickey Woods commercials...#44...get you some cold cuts...get you some cold cuts...

There are laws that protect hunters from harassment, however target shooting will probably never qualify for this.

People lease land like that in the photo. I have seen ads that ended up being a feeder and blind in a pasture.

Deer like pasture just as much as cover. Here pretty soon when there are no more acorns browse in the woods will be limited and the burclover and volunteer rye along with other browse will be heavy in the pastures... nothing wrong with leasing a place like that and hunting it.. especially if your feeding heavy.

You are completely missing the point of the argument because you can't see beyond what you think the neighbor should do on their side of the fence.

You wouldn't do it? That's fine - and your choice. But simply because somebody makes a different choice than what you personally would do doesn't equate them to being disrespectful - that is simply how you are choosing to view it because it's different than the choice you make.

There are a whole lot of unknowns based on one single picture.

You're kidding, right?

hopefully so!

I don't go near the cover on my lease, that's theirs, I hunt nothing but open crp and wheat fields. See several sometimes 30+ a sit.

Nope.

Its a balance. They need cover but pasture also plays a big role.. the edge line more than anything

If I was the guy that people are complaining about I would have set the feeder farther into the open area. Actually I would have set 3 feeders in that large open area. With the blind near the fence line as it currently is. Facing the open field from the blind one feeder off to the left at 45 degrees at a 100 yards, one to the right at 45 degrees at a 100 yards. The last feeder straight down the middle at 100 yards.

The above basically describes what one of our neighbors set is. The field/pasture was a grain field but the new owners don't farm it, so they have let grow up in weeds and what ever voluntarily grows in the field. We have cover as does the landowner to the south of them.

They never shoot anything, they are too lazy to walk to the blind, they park their pickup or a 4 wheeler next to the blind to alert everything and everybody that they are there for the weekend. They feed "my" deer year around and feed them protein. We start my feeders in September or October and keep most of the deer in the cover of our pasture. Our neighbor to the south of them does the same thing. You got to love neighbors like this.

That looks like it's all edge line as short as the cover is.