Man Says His Neighbor Kept Shooting Arrows Across the Property Line — and He Says It Had Been Building for Years

A man in r/Hunting said he finally got fed up after finding what he described as a fairly fresh arrow embedded in the ground on his side of the property line. He said he and his neighbor both had large acreage tracts, so in his mind there was no good reason for anybody to be shooting across the line in the first place. He took pictures and left the arrow where it was, but the post made it clear this was not some one-time annoyance that popped up out of nowhere. He said it had been going on for years.

What made the whole thing feel more personal was the history behind it. The hunter said the neighbor was somebody he already had a bad relationship with, and that the problem went back to catching him hunting on his property years earlier. In the thread, he said he had told the man not to come back, but later found hidden trail cameras and feeders way back on the property and had to tell him again to leave. According to the post, that is what the neighbor was still mad about.

He said he found the arrow while walking the line to check fencing because he also has livestock. That detail made the whole thing feel less like some petty boundary squabble and more like a real safety problem. In the post, he pointed out that a person could have been walking there, livestock could have been in the area, or his friend who hunts the property could have been out there too. He also made it clear he did not think this was some accidental bad shot from a regular guy. He said this neighbor is in law enforcement and had been trying to “attack” him in different ways ever since getting caught on his land.

Once the thread got going, people started asking why he did not just go talk to the neighbor. He answered that too. He said the man refuses to talk, and mentioned that even when he tried to be friendly about a year and a half earlier by yelling hello and waving, the guy would not even look in his direction. So by the time he found the arrow, he was not asking Reddit how to smooth things over. He was asking if it was time to report it to a game warden because he was done ignoring it.

The comments were full of people telling him to start documenting everything and take it to conservation officers or a game warden instead of trying to handle it himself. One commenter told him to collect evidence, follow trespassing laws carefully, and get wildlife law enforcement involved. Another said if the neighbor was local police, he should call the state. Others pointed to the same thing the poster seemed hung up on: this was not just about an arrow. It was about a man who had already been told to stay off the property and kept finding ways to push it anyway.

The thread kept circling back to that history because it changed the whole feel of the story. This was not two neighbors having one awkward moment over a boundary line. It was one man saying he caught the same neighbor hunting his land, later found hidden cameras and feeders on it, and now was finding arrows coming across the line too. By that point, you can see why he did not sound confused in the post. He sounded tired of it.

A few comments tried to cool things down and suggested returning the arrow or trying one more conversation, but the poster did not make it sound like that was realistic. His version of the story was pretty simple: he had already tried being reasonable, the neighbor had already ignored past warnings, and now he had a fresh arrow stuck in the dirt on his side of the fence line. That was the point where he seemed ready to quit treating it like a weird neighbor issue and start treating it like something enforcement should look at.