ATAShooter
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Guys, I need a bit of help. I have been an avid hunter for 30 years, and made sure to follow local laws and regulations. I have made it a point to respect all my neighbor's properties and rights and get permissions needed. The way our lands is laid out, it leaves a 1 acre square in between all my neighbors and myself. This lot I don't hunt. The son of the owner of that 1 acre lot has built a blind that is definitely used to hunt my, and all my neighbor's lands instead of his own. Now, if I had been asked could he hunt my land, I would have said yes without a hesitation, but he hunts our land out of his blind on his property without our permissions. He retrieves the game without permission off our property, which in VA is a no-no. So, I tried to contact this 1 acre owner to try to come up with a resolution, but he refuses to speak, I also saw his son and tried to engage in conversation and was snubbed. I called the game warden and was told there was nothing he could do unless they caught him in the act, but they are to busy to come and sit and wait OR it would take so long for an officer to get here that they'd be gone by then. I bought 2 infer-red game cameras and both have mysteriously dissappeared off the trees. All of our lands are posted and clearly marked ( all my other neighbors are angry also ). I find dead fawns that have been shot and left,... but no proof that he was the shooter and my neighbors are picky harvestors like me, so I know it isn't them. It is to the point that my wife & kids are scared to go back in our own woods, a fear of this dumb dude eiither shooting us or our dog. He is VERY careless. SO,... my question is, what is the easiest way to constantly run off deer? A scent,? a noise,? I figure if I can ruin the hunt, they'll go away to somewhere else ( Gosh I hate to do this ). I know I am commiting hunting season suicide here for myself, but this has to stop. Or does anybody have any ideas of what else to do?
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