A hunter on Reddit said he was sick and killing time in what he called the heated “Cadi Shack” overlooking his field when his dad walked the thicket along the east property line and spotted something that did not belong there. According to the post, it was a stand sitting on his property, with an ATV trail running right up to it. When he got down to look, he said he also found a salt lick and a scent drip nearby, both of which he said were illegal where he hunted. That was the moment the whole thing stopped feeling like a simple boundary mix-up and started looking like somebody had crossed onto his land, built a setup, and baited the area besides.
He wrote that the neighbor, who he had never met, already had a big permanent enclosed stand on his own side of the line and another permanent stand a little farther south on swamp ground they each owned part of. That was part of what made the discovery so maddening to him. In his view, this was not a case of somebody having nowhere else to hunt. The man already had multiple setups of his own, which made the stand on the wrong side of the line feel even more deliberate.
The first reaction at home was split. He said his girlfriend told him not to start a war by yanking the stand down. Her advice was to put up a no-trespassing sign and leave a note on the seat instead. But you could tell from the post that he was already thinking harder than that. He was not just annoyed that a stand was there. He was trying to figure out who exactly had put it there, how long it had been there, and whether confronting the wrong person would make the whole situation messier.
That uncertainty got worse before it got better. In an update, he said he checked county GIS records and realized the house he thought was tied to the land was not actually the right one. The trail leading east seemed to point toward a house, but according to the records, that property line did not connect the way he first thought. So now he was not even fully sure which neighbor was behind it. Later, he said a friend without Facebook helped track down two possible property owners and sent him screenshots so he at least had names to work with. He even thought one might be the same man whose profile picture showed him with a bear that had once tried to climb the poster’s stand.
Then he got more precise. In another update, he said he moved a camera over there and used Garmin coordinates along with the county GIS website to verify the property line. After checking the overlay and working through the numbers, he said the stand was about 10 yards inside his property. He even broke down the distances from the north and east lines and said that, even allowing for some margin of error, he was confident enough now to know he was in the right. At that point, the story changed from “I think this stand might be over the line” to “I know for sure it’s on my land.”
The replies pushed him in two directions. Some people said to take the stand down, post no-trespassing signs, and report the illegal baiting. Others told him to slow down, keep things civil if possible, and start with a conversation in case the neighbor had the wrong idea about where the line actually was or was letting someone else hunt who had made the mistake. One commenter even laid out a neighborly script for confronting the issue without openly accusing anyone right away, while others warned that county GIS maps can be wrong enough that it is worth confirming property lines carefully before starting a feud.
The original poster seemed to understand that balance. He replied in one spot that if the drip and lick had been on his side, he would absolutely report it because he did not want to get caught up in that himself and knew DNR penalties were not worth messing with. In the end, though, once he had the camera set and the line confirmed, he said his plan was to wait until he caught the right person on camera and then confront him with confidence. That made the whole thread feel like less of a blowup and more like a slow simmer. He was angry, but he also wanted to be sure he had the facts before he turned it into a neighbor fight he would have to live with afterward.
So the story was not just about a stand on the wrong side of a line. It was about that ugly moment when a landowner realizes somebody has not only crossed onto his property but has built a hunting setup there, cut a trail to it, and left illegal attractants nearby. The stand was the first thing he saw. What made the whole thing bigger was everything around it.
