One of our family farms is a county away, we don't live there and can't watch over it like we should. This farm was purchased 30+ years ago and has been surveyed twice. Sunday evening my Dad (owner) was out for the final day of firearms season. At about 5:20 prime time, a quad came down through the woods b line to a stand that was placed on our cornfield. Dad, wanting to see who this was, walked up to the stand.
The guy asks Dad what he is doing, Dad explains he was trying to enjoy the last evening of season until a quad came through the woods to him. This random dude goes on to explain that the stand is his cousins (owner of neighboring property) and that he was checking to see if his cousin killed anything. He then questioned Dad on how he knew he was on the right property. Dad is easy-going and one thing that really pisses him off is to question his ownership of property. This questioning will throw him into a rant about paying for two surveys, 3 decades of ownership and paying property taxes. Wish I could've been a squirrel on a tree and heard that blow up.
Yesterday evening I met Pops out at the farm to re-mark the property line, the orange t-posts weren't enough, and remove the stands, one stands 400+ feet over the line, another 30 feet. We didn't take the stands, just placed them across the line on the atv road the guy made. On our way out I found a trail camera on a scrape on out another 100 yds onto our property. Before I head home I swing up the owners house to give him the camera and explain what is going on.
He went on to say that he does not hunt or own a stand, and that the guy is not his cousin. Just the neighbors boy that lives in Columbus. Needless to say the owner is now pissed that this all took place and went on to explain how he showed him the lines and informed him that the stand he had 30' from the line was on us not him. Based on the neighbors demeanor I think this dude mighta lost his hunting spot. In addition to bending the truth he was dumb enough to put his name inside the trail camera cover and write "Do not steal you bastards" I got it for now, tried giving it back to his mom but she wouldn't answer the door.
People amaze me.
The guy asks Dad what he is doing, Dad explains he was trying to enjoy the last evening of season until a quad came through the woods to him. This random dude goes on to explain that the stand is his cousins (owner of neighboring property) and that he was checking to see if his cousin killed anything. He then questioned Dad on how he knew he was on the right property. Dad is easy-going and one thing that really pisses him off is to question his ownership of property. This questioning will throw him into a rant about paying for two surveys, 3 decades of ownership and paying property taxes. Wish I could've been a squirrel on a tree and heard that blow up.
Yesterday evening I met Pops out at the farm to re-mark the property line, the orange t-posts weren't enough, and remove the stands, one stands 400+ feet over the line, another 30 feet. We didn't take the stands, just placed them across the line on the atv road the guy made. On our way out I found a trail camera on a scrape on out another 100 yds onto our property. Before I head home I swing up the owners house to give him the camera and explain what is going on.
He went on to say that he does not hunt or own a stand, and that the guy is not his cousin. Just the neighbors boy that lives in Columbus. Needless to say the owner is now pissed that this all took place and went on to explain how he showed him the lines and informed him that the stand he had 30' from the line was on us not him. Based on the neighbors demeanor I think this dude mighta lost his hunting spot. In addition to bending the truth he was dumb enough to put his name inside the trail camera cover and write "Do not steal you bastards" I got it for now, tried giving it back to his mom but she wouldn't answer the door.
People amaze me.