hoosierhunter Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 Has anyone, only in thought of course:), given consideration on how to influence deer away from neighboring properties? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Givan Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 A really tall fence lol Realistically, providing more food, thicker cover, and less pressure than neighboring properties is about all you can do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 thought and acted on.... - natural funnels from our property to theirs (continuing the funnel) to a food source I've hinge cut trees to divert deer to stay on ours. - have cleared some hedge rows of trees and brush leading to their land so deer walk through our more of our woods to skirt the field and get to point B. - Putting a corn field adjacent to our swamp in the middle of our 350+ acres worked well. - Reseeded hay fields adjacent there older ground works well. - Cutting hay fields later in the growing season just to start tender new growth has helped. - if you're planting any food source adjacent to the neighbors (maybe it's your only option) try to only do so if it's up (prevailing) wind from cover on your neighbors. you can still hunt it's edges, marginal winds, and funnels to it from your side. However, they mostly have a bad wind for it. Nothing can keep them on your property the whole time, as you know, but the more you can get them to stay on your ground longer or more often the better. Deer will still get killed by them no matter what you do. A lot of the above were changes that we made for other reasons and I happened to notice how it effected the deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted December 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 theoretically speaking..... Any use of unnatural scents, objects, etc that have worked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 i've put vick's vapor rub all over a trails on our property leading to a treestand 6 yards off the border. set the jar on the stone wall border. don't know if it helped or not.... sure it had some kind of effect. those types of methods although legal are a little bit brazen, more costly, still time consuming, and they only last so long. any object or scent deer will eventually get used to. they more tick off the neighbor than anything. try not to them that much for those reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 12, 2012 Report Share Posted December 12, 2012 A really tall fence lol Realistically, providing more food, thicker cover, and less pressure than neighboring properties is about all you can do Yup. And it can go both ways, would suck if a shooter about to come by your setup hung up on the neighbor by something you placed to stop the deer from going to them. Kinda figure karma comes in at some point; the guy who tells you he and those hunting their lease are passing little ones all the whilst someone hunting their ground is shooting every blasted deer they see I keep telling myself is eventually going to have some kind of ending/outcome, whether it be someone else picking up their lease and them losing it or something else happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missilelock Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 a wrist rocket and a pocket full of m-80s should do the trick........jk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 I recently covered a property line with gain dryer sheets. Our neighbor placed a feeder literally 15ft off our line and was hunting over it which is illegal here. I shoved a dryer sheet into every knot hole I could find about every ten steps. Also hung a posted sign to where he can almost get in his blind and reach out the left window and grab it. Don't know if it will have an effect on his hunting or not, but he can either move his feeder or I can keep it up or call the gw. I can reek more havoc on his little 25 acre pasture than he can affect me on our 1400 acre lease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrown Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Dang redkneck, wouldn't want to get on your bad side. That's good question hoosier, I can't think of anything either. I have the same problem too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 hahaha.... The old boy had cut a trail through the briars to our fence and there was fresh shells all on our side where I assume he had been over there squirrel hunting. If I knew him I would talk to him, but I'm not driving around ten miles on the highway to try to wait for him at the road that goes into this place, not worth my time. He'll get the message and move his feeder or I'll make a phone call next time and let the gw sit around and wait for him. The feeder was bad enough, the trespassing was icing on the cake. This isnt a questionable line, this is my large hardwood swamp then a barbed wire fence then his small sedge field planted in small pines. No comparison, he knew he was in the wrong on both counts. There was also ribbons tied a few years back from his side to a climber about 200 yards on us. I removed the climber, not sure if it was the same guy, but I figure it most likely was. We invest too much time and money in our property to have it poached from behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 Has anyone, only in thought of course:), given consideration on how to influence deer away from neighboring properties? A bigger and better dinner table, your grocercies need to be more appealing to them. This is hard in my case due to the fact I hunt agricultural lands that is bordered by the same, so I hunt the funnels and transition areas in hopes in catching them coming and going. I recently covered a property line with gain dryer sheets. Our neighbor placed a feeder literally 15ft off our line and was hunting over it which is illegal here. I shoved a dryer sheet into every knot hole I could find about every ten steps. Also hung a posted sign to where he can almost get in his blind and reach out the left window and grab it. Don't know if it will have an effect on his hunting or not, but he can either move his feeder or I can keep it up or call the gw. I can reek more havoc on his little 25 acre pasture than he can affect me on our 1400 acre lease. I helped a buddy out with this very same problem, here's what he did. We went and visited all of our female relatives and got all of the cheapest nastiest AVON perfume we could get from them and soaked strips of rags in it and hung them on trees and such bordering his smaller property. Right or wrong it worked and he moved on without confertation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msman825 Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 try moth balls, and i have heard of folks going to a barber shop and gather up bags of hair and speading in there gardens to keep deer away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msman825 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 did you try anything, hoosier hunter. what about trying a electric fence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted January 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I didn't try anything, but I would guess that a few of these ideas would be extremely effective if put into practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msman825 Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Good luck man, I know the feeling. I have a feeder here ( year round) in Maine in my back yard 2 acres and every year they are 2-3 deer that are shot up walking are i find dead after the snow melts. and your not supost to shoot does are little ones in my zone. it really burns my --- and theres nothing i can do about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Really depends on what's on your borders. Interesting replys & ideas so far. Pat...we'll be dealing with a similar problem we have with 1 neighbor in MO that owns just 14 acres bordering us and one of our friendly neighbors that's now the 2nd largest landowner around there. The jerk decided to play outfitter & had 2 guys bowhunting it & 1 guy gun hunting it in Nov. for 12 days. It's been very obvious he's deliberately being a jerk trying to gouge us for $ to buy him out. Last number he mentioned he'd sell to another neighbor to pass on to us was $100K...yea that's right! In our case due to the lay of the border, we have very few options but a high fence is sure being considered...1800' of it so the nearest E/W crossings around each end would be 150 yards N & S of his property. That's a lot cheaper than what he wants to gouge us for and would sure resolve the problem. He's gotten wind of what we're considering doing & needless to say, he's not happy about it. The 2nd to last conversation was pretty heated. He was more humble on the last one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msman825 Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 I thought of another idea, If it was my property ( not sure of your land lay out) might make a awesome place for a fishing pond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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