3 years ago, a guest on my property was walking back to this car when he jumped a REALLY nice buck that was simply bedded down in some tall grass between the vehicles and the woods.
The buck jumped and ran directly away from the hunter, who, in the all excitement wildly shot twice at the deer running away from him, hitting it in the rump each time. (1st dumb move).
The deer ran onto my neighbor's land where 3 shots rang out. Apparently the neighbor heard the shooting, saw the buck approach his land and bang: dead deer.
This guest (not mine, but my partner's) followed the buck onto my neighbors land and started the whole "that's my buck" argument (2nd dumb move: going onto someone else's land)
They literally got into a "tug of war" with the animal, both having loaded guns there (obvious, 3rd dumb move).
My neighbor eventually won the tug of war and had a dandy wall hanger. Later that evening, the guest chewed on MY ass for allowing MY neighbor to steal his buck (4th dumb move: Pi**ing off the owner)
I conferred with my partner and I told the guest to pack his bags and get frick'n lost (1st smart move).
I then went over to the neighbors' to apologize for the guest's actions and he told me never to step foot on his land again for tracking a deer or whatever. Angrly, I said that it now applies to both sides of the fence and so, stay off mine.
Two days later, this same neighbor is tracking all over my woods on a blood trail while I'm hunting.
I confronted him and (h2g) he says: "A man has a right to track his deer!" (5th bad move: purchasing land near pigs).
