A Reddit user said the whole nightmare started while he was bowhunting on leased property in early November 2022. According to the post, he was sitting in a blind that had been out there for more than three months and was overlooking a food plot they had planted. He said he was about 50 feet from the property line, with the blind windows facing the neighboring property closed. From his point of view, he was exactly where he was supposed to be, doing what he had every right to be doing, when a man trespassed onto the lease and pointed an AR-style rifle at him.
He wrote that the man held him at gunpoint for about three minutes. In the post, he said the whole thing was on video. The trespasser later claimed the hunter had been stalking his kids through a tent on the neighboring property, which the poster flatly denied. He said he tried to press charges afterward, but the prosecuting attorney told him there was not enough evidence to move forward. So after being held at rifle point while sitting in a blind on leased hunting ground, he said he was left with no real resolution from the legal side of it.
Then, according to the same post, things got worse more than a year later.
He said his brother was hunting that evening, over a year after the original gunpoint incident, when the same man supposedly saw him walking to his treestand about 150 or more yards from the property line. The poster wrote that the man then opened fire with the AR into the thicket where his brother was. He said bullets were whizzing under his brother’s stand for over an hour. His brother waved an orange hat and yelled that the police were on the way, but according to the account, the shooting continued anyway.
The story did not stop with the gunfire. The Reddit user wrote that after the shooting, the same man trespassed onto their property and confronted his brother directly. According to the post, the man said, “what, are you afraid to talk to the guy with the gun?!” So in the version the hunter told, this was not one isolated bad confrontation that blew over. It was an ongoing land dispute that escalated from a man allegedly entering the lease and holding him at gunpoint, to later firing into the area while his brother was in a stand, and then physically crossing onto the property again to taunt him afterward.
He wrote that he was not trying to “play victim.” What he wanted, according to the post, was to make sure a clear message got sent that this kind of behavior was not okay. But the details he shared painted a picture of exactly the kind of land dispute hunters dread most: neighboring anger, disputed stories, a property line that becomes the center of a feud, and a man with a rifle who keeps bringing the argument back into the woods.
What do you think — if somebody had already held you at gunpoint once on your lease, would you ever feel normal going back into that stand again?
Original Reddit post: Man trespasses onto leased property and holds hunter at gunpoint
