Tough, tough pill to swallow tonight

I know I'm not the first....

I watch this evening a 150 class walk my fence line...on my neighbors property

I've met them once, didn't seem like the type to allow me taking him

I have their number and trust me, almost called.

I was sure the answer was no

A true low fence trophy 5 feet off my property

It happens around 5pm today and I am still wound up!

Bummer maybe tomorrow he will be 5’ on your side of the property line, good luck

Watched the 10 pt I shot this year blow past my feeder and head to the neighbors property on a Saturday night. Figured he was gone for good. Next morning he showed back up to take a shot to take a dirt nap. Never know, I'd hunt there tomorrow.

You can bet he has a place on the fence that he prefers to cross for its ease of effort. If he's bedding on the adjacent property and coming onto your place to eat, put a stand up and hunt it in the evenings to catch him when he's headed to the dinner table. Morning hunts will carry less potential because he'll most likely have already gone back across the fence and found his bed before morning daylight. This will also increase you chances at getting him while there is still light as older bucks know to hit feeders in the dark this well into the season. You want to catch him about a half hour or so before dark.

Corn your side of the fence...

That could work but doesn't guarantee he won't run onto the adjacent property. It could also change his travel habits and give hm another place to eat after dark. If you catch crossing the fence when he's headed to your dinner table, you can shoot him when he's almost certain to continue away from the fence after the shot.

He will be on your side soon enough

surely, if you shoot him on your side of the fence, your neighbor would let you cross the fence to retrieve him?

Oh, I am throwing corn.

My wife has saw him twice! I don't have this deer on camera.

She told me there's this deer that's bigger than the others. probably the biggest I have seen around here...

Honestly, my gut told me yeah right. She doesn't know, but she by golly did!

I do have some nice ones and he dwarfs them.

I am 99 percent sure he stays on a different property that also adjoins mine.

It's a few acres that he lives in or calls home.

I think he was after a doe this evening

Just a beautiful deer, 150's low fence just don't grow on trees.

I was luck to see him and thankful

My son and I watched a 10 pointer last year at 75 yards on our side of the fence.

Standing perfectly broadside, I wouldnt let him take the shot.

I explained that if he missed or if bullet went straight through it would cross property line.

He was disappointed but understood.

Got plenty of pictures but never saw him again.

I almost think I will have to call the Game Warden should that happen.

They kinda owe me a favor, so that's gonna be my ace in the hole.

I helped them once with cattle they own and never asked for anything.

I really don't know

He has twice!

I wasn't home for either, wife was

The downside of hunting near the fence lines, if you shoot him on your side and he crosses to neighbors property. Then yes you call the game warden and he maybe help ask if it's ok for you to retrieve the deer but the neighbor could just deny the request.
Good luck on the deer, he will most likely travel on your property somewhere as well.

See if you can pin point similarities on those occasions and start piecing the puzzle together.

Yeah, I hope they understand.

I would.

The 2 times she saw him was between 830-9am

This the first evening sighting I know of.

And why do you think that's so? It's probably because he doesn't suddenly see corn on the ground or other sign that makes him cautious.

Short of rutting activity, a mature buck's life consist of eating, sleeping, and drinking. Pretty simple if you want to get a shot at one. Find a setup between the places where they eat, sleep, or drink and leave no sign or smell that you've been there. Otherwise, focus on the doe and lesser bucks who have yet to earn their wariness. They never get old being stupid.

Why is your feeder there? Our neighbor did the same thing who happens to be an awesome member here and great guy. I posted a pic of it and he got word and moved it. His daughter bagged a giant this year.

That is my fenceline behind that feeder. This is different location.

We saw the deer from a different stand about 400 yards from here.

I just got this picture on trailcam when he was leaving this wheat field.

My stand is 75 yards east of west fenceline and feeder is southeast of that stand location.

If he went to feeder he would have been dead.

But now all those trees are gone and I have a grassfield so there are no stands anymore. Landowner really screwed me. Did it at last minute too when I had no time to find a better option. Finally saw some really good deer last year then he tur ed entire place into CRP.

Well this instance is what it's all about!! The hunt is on. You just have to hunt and you'll catch him. Play your cards right and don't push him out. I'm excited to here if you get him. Then you'll be a little sad cause the hunt is over. Makes you appreciate it all. Best of luck

Take your grunt call to the blind with you. You would be surprised how quickly he'd jump that fence for a fight.

And I made the mistake of not having my hunting bag with me yesterday.

I told my wife last night that deer probably would have came in w a grunt.

I've got it with me today though.

Good luck!!

if your neighbors are not hunters, be patient, you might get lucky, if you do anything to disrupt his habits, you might not ever see him.

Best way to avoid this type of frustration altogether is not hunt where you can see into neighboring places. Also makes for better relationships.

I have to add, you are to be commended for not taking the shot. A lot of people would have.

I am hunting right now, where I live.

We own 9 acres...

We also have 215 acres in Oklahoma.

But I hunt here a lot.

It's my land, I will hunt here be damned.

From the Outdoor Annual: it is illegal to hunt in a subdivision on lots 10 acres or less in an unincorporated area of a county if the commissioners court, by order, prohibits the discharge of a firearm or the use of archery equipment in such subdivisions. (Contact local county clerk and ask about §235.022, Local Government Code.). Hope your legal. I know if you were in Brown County, you would not be.

Cool story

This similar event is probably happening hundreds if not thousands of times seasonally in TX. Has personally happened to me at least 5-10 times hunting South Texas over 35+ years. Rub of the green as they say. On 1-2 of my occasions I either later hooked with that same buck on our place. Most other times it was a different similarly nice one.

Good luck getting him or another similarly good one!

It's not a "story", it's a fact. It's everyone's responsibility to be aware of all the laws, rules, of their area, because they differ by county. Having said that, I'm sure in your case it wouldn't matter, because from both of your replies it is obvious that you are one of those "I will do as I damn well please" type people. Fence line hunters, and ranchette hunters, are a breed of their own. Good luck to you.

My mom hunts. She has acerage. Big wide heavy buck walked up by the house to eat acorns late evening the other day. She was unloading a stove out of a truck. She walked around the house and took a picture. She does this often. Takes a picture and never sees them again. I dont sit in her stand. Did one year on this day and a 150 walked out and flipped me the bird. I had binocs only. The deer out there are telepathic. Know when you are not armed.

Interesting. People hunting on less than 1/10 the acreage needed to support on buck per harvest season.

Our neighbor is a 10k acre game ranch. I can see their property from every stand on our land. They have many stands that can see onto our land. Elevation changes. Guess we need to stop hunting our place and tell them they should do the same.

That's a good looking buck. I hope you get a chance at him! One of my hunters shot a deer a few years ago that piled up on a neighbors property. I knew the neighbor to be a cranium penile juvenile might be senile individual so as the ramrod I took the hunter over to ask to retrieve his deer. Of course the guy says "no." I just calmly backed us off the porch and drove to the road and called the warden. Warden showed up in about 30 minutes and I tell him what's going on. Warden says, "Well, let's go ask again." Neighbor tells the warden no, he can't get his deer. Warden looks at me, I point and say "write that man a ticket!" The warden asked for what? I said, "It's against the law to waste a game resource, this man is trying to retrieve it, and he won't let him. He can't tag the deer because he didn't shoot it, so it's wasted game." The warden picked up on my bluff and pulled out his ticket book. Suddenly the neighbor was more than willing to escort us down there to get the deer.

Now, I know my proposal was a complete bluff and would have no legal standing whatsoever, as far as I know the warden could have retrieved the deer himself, but with a good poker face and a sharp warden, things can get done.

obviously not the same scenario.

How is it not sir? I'm sitting in my stand right now, the piece of land I'm on is 368 acres. I can see for miles and have 6 different pieces of land touching this 368 acres and I can see parts of all of them.

368 acres, hunting from an elevated position - 9 acres hunting on the fence line. You are right, identical situation. My apologies. What was I thinking.

I don't think you can compare hunting 9 acres to 368 regardless of how far you can see from an elevated stand on a rise. I don't blame the OP from wanting to hunt his 9 acres but the reality is if he had 20 neighbors around him with 9 or 10 acres and they all did the same thing there would soon be no deer left.

Why were you sitting in a stand without a gun? That seems like a terrible decision. You never have to take a shot, but you can't take one without a gun. Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

This is why the new MLD program will never work. Anyone with less than 200 acre will likely not get a buck tag. & every swinging richard with 2 acres thinks they have the right to shoot any deer that crosses it. No thought or concern to what they put into the ecosystem, they gotta "fill muh freezer".

It's also the reason HF fencing companies stay in business.

the ranchettes that have cropped up around me have beaten me down to the point that I am seriously considering giving up hunting. Something that has been my passion for over 40 years. If high fencing were a viable option for me, I would do it in a heartbeat

I understand. The ranchette craze is moving into my area of the country. They all like to set up deer feeders on their 5 acres, right next to the neighbors fence, & call that deer hunting. It has driven me to the point of planning to HF.

Any particular reason you can't HF?

A law that makes it illegal to hunt deer near a feeder on such small acreage might neutralize the situation. It’s obvious that in these situations, feeders are being used to pull deer from surrounding properties with much greater deer holding habitat.

Define subdivision. If I cut out 9 acres of my 140 acres in the county is that a subdivision. No.

He might not live in a SUBDIViSION

use a decoy ! works great !

my place is on 2 different sides of a county road, then there's the whole money thing. Lol.

the way it was explained to me, is it is an ordinance set by each individual county. If they set a minimum amount of acreage required to discharge a firearm, or even a bow, it doesn't matter what you are surrounded by. If you own 9 acres, in the middle of a 1500 acre ranch, and the ordinance states you have to have over 10, no shooting allowed. They are just trying to keep people from shooting their neighbors, their neighbors livestock, their neighbors assets, etc. Just food for thought, if a 9 acre place is square, it is roughly 200 yards per side.

We've turned a lot of our 300 acres into native prairie grasses. Deer are flourishing. Still have plenty of cedar though. I see deer bed down in tall grass frequently. Probably freaks them out at first then they realize it's a great bedding and loafing area. It probably bothers you more than the deer.

Ah, it's good to see that some things never change

Hope you get a chance to drop the 150" ASAP, ProCraft

He will be on your side of the fence sooner or later, and you just have to be there when he shows up.
That's why they call it hunting.

One of the best managers I have ever had said it at a seminar one time a man place money in the middle of the table there were five guys at the table Thomas my manager eventually ask if he could have the money and the man said yes!

Not everyone calls it hunting when your waiting on a deer to jump a fence onto 9 acres.

Call it what you want, tho.

Not having a 150 class deer in your area the entire hunting season is a much tougher pill to swallow. At least you have reason to go out.

Dang I thought you'd of killed him by now. Hope it all comes together soon. Turn those feeders up. Lol

I'm tuned in. Please post when you get him. Come up that front leg to the low spine and anchor him. Best of luck.

Rattling horns!!!

Just part of hunting a very small acreage. Do as others above have suggested and get creative. Bushwack him where he crosses the fence if you can. Good luck but don't let it discourage you. Not the first and probably won't be the last time this happens to you.

Yes sir, I haven't laid eyes on him again.

I've heard maybe 2/3 shots around me but I know for sure a neighbor shot a doe.

And I haven't heard of him bein killed

I did have 23-24" wide 8 point come in twice late, I have pics

I attended a birthday day party for my grand mother the evening he first came in

I'm taking either given the opportunity