A Reddit user said he was bowhunting on his lease in early November 2022 when a man came onto the property and pointed an AR-style rifle at him for about three minutes. According to the post, he was sitting in a blind that had been out there for more than three months and was positioned about 50 feet from the property line overlooking a food plot they had planted. He wrote that all the windows facing the neighboring property were closed, and from his point of view he was exactly where he had every right to be.
He said the stranger did not just stop at the line and yell. He crossed onto the leased ground and held him at gunpoint while accusing him of stalking his kids through a tent on the neighboring property. The hunter wrote that the whole thing was recorded on video, which is one of the details that made the story so hard to shake. It was not just his word against someone else’s. He said there was actual footage of a man trespassing onto the lease and leveling a rifle at him while he sat in the blind.
According to the post, he tried to press charges afterward, but the prosecuting attorney said there was not enough evidence. That was the part that seemed to frustrate him most when he wrote about it later. From his point of view, he had been on land he had permission to hunt, in a blind that had been there for months, with video of the confrontation, and it still was not enough to move the case the way he thought it should.
The story he told was simple and ugly. He was bowhunting on leased ground near the property line when a man came over, pointed a rifle at him, and accused him of watching the neighbor’s children. The hunter said his blind windows facing that property were closed and that he was about 50 feet inside the line. By the time it was over, he had video of the encounter, but not the outcome he wanted once he tried to press charges.
What do you think — if someone crossed onto your lease and held you at gunpoint while you were in a blind, would video of the encounter feel like enough proof to you, or would you be stunned if prosecutors still would not move on it?
Original Reddit post: Man trespasses onto leased property and holds hunter at gunpoint
