A hunter on Reddit said the problem with his neighbors’ setup was not subtle at all. In the post, he wrote that both of their stands were set back only slightly from the property line, but the only real shooting lanes ran directly into his property. He said he did not even care that much if they were bowhunting deer on his side. What had him worried was rifle season. From where he stood, the danger was not theoretical. He believed the stands were placed in a way that could send shots straight onto his land.
The way he framed it made it clear this was not a brand-new annoyance. It sounded like part of a longer-running problem with the same neighbors. In the replies, after people told him to just talk to them, he said that conversation had already happened and gone nowhere. According to him, the neighbors got defensive, argued about where the property lines were, and told him to get a survey if he felt they were shooting into his property. He added that getting a survey line there had been quoted at around $8,000, which made the whole thing feel even more stuck. He was not dealing with somebody who had never heard the complaint before. He was dealing with people who already knew the complaint and were basically daring him to spend thousands to prove it.
Then came the part that explained why he sounded so fed up. He said this was not the first boundary issue with them. A few years earlier, according to his reply, the same neighbors had actually put stands directly on his property and refused to take them down. So he and his side removed them. He added that this was one of those families who seemed to think that because their grandfather hunted the land years ago, they were still somehow entitled to do the same. That one detail changed the whole tone of the story. It was no longer just about whether two current stands were a little too close to the line. It was about a pattern of people acting like the line only mattered when it benefited them.
The comments split into the usual camps pretty quickly. Some people told him to stay calm, talk it out, and try to come to an agreement before the season turned ugly. One commenter said this was Reddit, where no one wants to have a simple conversation, then sarcastically added that sometimes bad things happen when people talk — like solving the problem. But by that point the original poster had already made it clear that the neighborly conversation route had been tried and had hit a dead end.
Other commenters got more practical. One said the real issue was that the neighbors did not believe they were shooting into his land, and that without a survey it would be hard to force anything. Another suggested blocking the shooting lanes with brush piles or hinge-cut trees. Several people told him to put up cameras along the line, especially facing the stands, so that if the hunters shot into his property or crossed over to retrieve something, he would have proof. One person said he should make at least one camera obvious and another hidden, just in case someone tried to remove the visible one.
A few replies pushed for involving authorities. One commenter said to call the game warden and explain that the neighbors had been harvesting off his land after being told not to. Another said this sort of thing does not end until a survey gets done and a game warden is brought in, because everything else only escalates the conflict without settling it. A different commenter said that if the poster caught them shooting onto his land, even with a bow, that could be enough to support a trespass or poaching complaint depending on the rules where he lived.
The original poster also dropped one small detail late in the thread that made the whole situation feel even dirtier. He said the property still had three of its original survey stakes, but the one closest to one of the disputed stands was missing. He did not outright accuse the neighbors of removing it, but he said it was worth mentioning because it showed the kind of neighbor he believed he was dealing with. That line did not prove anything on its own, but it gave the story a more bitter edge. He was not just worried about where they aimed. He was dealing with people he no longer trusted around the line at all.
So the story was not simply that two stands sat a little too close to the border. It was that the poster believed the stands were positioned to hunt his side, the neighbors had already been confronted once, old disputes over trespassing had already happened, and the only thing everyone kept circling back to was an expensive survey he did not want to pay for just to prove what he felt was already obvious. By the time he posted, he was not asking whether the setup looked bad. He was asking what someone is supposed to do when the other side keeps acting like the property line is a suggestion.
