[quote=huntingbig8]You guys are what makes management tough, we feed them and let them age and grow and your cheap asses shoot them as soon as they jump the fence. It's tough luck kid, but don't quit trying.

I'm confused !! Did this happen to the OP or his son or is it just a general letter ?

I've read this thread and just wondering why everyone had dog piled this kid for ranting?

Seems like I've read several post on here before about someone hunting on the fence line and everyone get's pissed at the fence hunters.

Is it because this kid is privileged?

Class warfare? I just think its funny that people get all butt hurt over what someone else does on their own land.

I've read this thread and just wondering why everyone had dog piled this kid for ranting?

Seems like I've read several post on here before about someone hunting on the fence line and everyone get's pissed at the fence hunters.

Is it because this kid is privileged?

I've read this thread and just wondering why everyone had dog piled this kid for ranting?

Seems like I've read several post on here before about someone hunting on the fence line and everyone get's pissed at the fence hunters.

Is it because this kid is privileged?

I, a 17 year old b[s][/s]oy has had the privilege to grow up doing I believe is about as hands-on as you can get. I live on an extoic breeding ranch in the hill country; I fill protein feeders, bottle feed babies, and cut and stack firewood to sell so I have money to do things. My ranch is HF however we have a creek that is LF. Here I do all my hunting from hogs, axis, WT, predators, and varmints.
Two summers ago, I spotted the biggest axis I have ever seen. (35 in +, 24 in wide, just estimates) That afternoon I went out and bought a feeder, 5 bags of corn, a game camera, and a bale of alfalfa with my own money. I set up everything I bought and have maintained it to this day.
two months ago, the axis made their presence known on my game camera and wiping out my alfalfa. I caught a male on my camera and knew he would be a trophy. Over the next few weeks I would go and sit in a brush blind I made and watch this axis. He was growing. Brow tines were coming out, as well as extra points at the base of his brows and main beams, his main beams had also started. Time had gone by and his brows were about 12 inches long in velvet and main beams still growing. A week ago his caudals had shown. He was going to be a wall hanger I had watched for what seemed like ever.
Two days ago, I went out to academy with my money from Christmas and bought a Game Winner 2 man quad pod to hunt out of. I set it up with the help of my cousin, with intentions of shooting this trophy axis in mid May-June for when he comes out of velvet.
This evening I was out with my father replacing burnt out light out bulbs that light our main gate entrance and heard a gun shot. I knew immediately where the shot came from. The 100 feet wide and 10 acre long "property" you own. Matter of fact, a state, land granted easement, granted in the 1800s for ranchers to heard their cattle to the creek for water, that you claimed squatters rights on. Due to the fact your blind and feeder are so close to my property I went to make sure all of our exotics were accounted for and you hadn't shot them.
I drove up to your feeder, that pretty much lays on top of the HF, that is filled a month out of the year, and saw an axis laying there, in velvet. "Are there extra points at his bases?" I asked you hoping to identify whether or not it was the axis I had watched for so long. Then came the answer I dreaded to hear, "Yes."
"You know this axis would have a big one?" I questioned.
"There's no doubt he would. With 12 inch brows and 28 inch main beams at least just at the bottom of it's caudals."
"I've been dying for one of these, my wife told me next time I see him to shoot him. There's another one anyway."
You've ruined hunting for me for a good while. There will be no shoulder mounted axis above my bed anymore thanks to you shooting him. This rant is more of based on the fact that you shot him in velvet and not giving him a chance to grow. Now please, do me a favor take your feeder of my fence line before the fence "moves" and knocks it over.
Sincerely,
Your newest fence driver.



EDIT: After much speculation I went to investigate where the deer was shot because the deer's feet looked wet, I decided to go look for blood on our side or the creek. Sure enough a found a drag line mixed with blood and hair. The deer was shot on the opposite side of the creek, which we own, and drug across the creek bottom on to his strip of land. Pics this afternoon.

EDIT: After much speculation I went to investigate where the deer was shot because the deer's feet looked wet, I decided to go look for blood on our side or the creek. Sure enough a found a drag line mixed with blood and hair. The deer was shot on the opposite side of the creek, which we own, and drug across the creek bottom on to his strip of land. Pics this afternoon.

Drag marks and blood across creek.

I'm reading three separate rants here:
The guy is hunting near a fenceline - He can do what he wants on his side of the fence (assuming he has permission to hunt that land).
The guy shoots animals and doesn't feed much - He can do what he wants on his side of the fence (assuming he has permission to hunt that land).
The guy shot across the fence onto the OP's land - This is complete crap and the guy needs to be reported and prosecuted for it.

Originally Posted By: grout-scout

I can bet alot of money I know where this 10 acres is at. Maybe off of Wenegroth ( prob misspelled) road??? Is it a landowner or a leaser?

Originally Posted By: Glowka

Correct. He doesn't own it. Which is my major arguement.

What forensic technique did you use to determine the location of the shooting? I am intrigued. I don't doubt the animal could have been shot and run. Such is discussed here quite frequently. So how do you know know it was shot on YOUR land? That you have blood and drag marks isn't sufficient. Anyone who has had an animal run across the fence line after being shot and had to drag it back had undoubedly made the same sort of blood trail. I have with hogs. I have also had animals not start pumping out blood until some distance from where they were shot.

That you said the feet looked wet is quite interesting because that is exactly what you would expect if the animal was shot, then crossed the creek where it fell dead and then was dragged back by the hunter.



You missed ... on noting the ownership of the strip of land, Glowka said...





However, then in the edit, Glowka does in fact refer to the strip of land as the shooter's, LOL.

I'm reading three separate rants here:
The guy is hunting near a fenceline - He can do what he wants on his side of the fence (assuming he has permission to hunt that land).
The guy shoots animals and doesn't feed much - He can do what he wants on his side of the fence (assuming he has permission to hunt that land).
The guy shot across the fence onto the OP's land - This is complete crap and the guy needs to be reported and prosecuted for it.

Im still amazed that your 17 and you said your WIFE said to shoot it. your married and 17 years old

Im still amazed that your 17 and you said your WIFE said to shoot it. your married and 17 years old