So.... I went semi hunting yesterday (I had to come back in due to getting a little ill to where I wouldn't be able focus properly) and I found a bunch of NO HUNTING OR TRESPASSING signs running along the property right next to where I used to hunt. Though I was on my side of the property; I made sure I was whenever , I can't but get the feeling that the neighbor doesn't like the hunting. So I've decided to just stop hunting there due to it being pretty much the only place on my property that I am able to hunt and the signs just takes the fun of the feeling of me and the woods, like a fence being erected. From now on then I'm just going to go a few miles down the road to some state land that I've been wanting to hunt on but the convenience of hunting on my own land(though technically my dad's, just I'm a dependent on it) made me prefer to hunt here but after yesterday I've decided to just hunt on the state land. So I just thought that it wasn't worth it because the place I was at had perfect shooting lanes and now that it would be better to move, would make it more inconvenient since with all the brush I would need to clear and with only a little piece to actually shoot and track the deer would make it seem not worth it.
I just wish we had more land that I could hunt on without worrying about other people's property or other hunters and I can hunt in peace , but I guess that's just how life goes.

You give up too easily Pvt!

Who gives a crap if your neighbor puts no hunting signs on their side, stay on your side and hunt.

Pardon me, but it's called a few years of hunting that showed me a few bucks but all ran off the property if hit.
Just got tired of being able to hit one just not getting it. And this was just the last straw. Because I felt like a tuna in a can back there sometimes with the space I had to deal with(which was about 1 acre. So I've decided to go to the spot where my grandpa shot at a buck a few years ago. Which is at the place only a few miles from me, aka going to greener pastures; or should I say, a pasture from a barn.

I'd be leery too but would continue to hunt my property. Id give the neighbor the benefit of the doubt that they had poachers on their land.
I'd also be leery of the neighbor interfering with my hunt.
Casually bring it up saying something like.... I noticed the new signs, did you have poachers hunt on your land?

I would stay if I had more land to hunt on the property but the knowledge of if I get one I would need to get a direct knockdown hit to even retrieve it makes the odds of me actually bringing one back very slim, especially when I've never even had a successful hunt in my life.

Well they are my back door neighbors and we've lived in this house for over a decade and we've never even seen or talked to them in all that time, actually we didn't even know we owned some woods till our neighbors asked if they could hunt on our property for coyotes.(We aren't very close to our next door neighbors like we rarely talk to each other)

It's a shame that you don't feel comfortable hunting your own land but with only one acre it's a great possibly that the deer will run off your land before expiring. Tough call.

That's what I was thinking and was one of the big reasons why I just decided that I would have a better chance on state land.

Pvt Davis, go talk to the neighbor folks before you hunt and simply ask them if you can retreive a deer if it runs over on them. I don't allow folks on my place to hunt because family has all the spots covered. I do, however, let people track wounded deer, or retreive dead ones.......even the one neighbor I once had arrested for ORV trespass. Even if they say no, they can not keep or tag a deer you kill. If a deer crosses the line to croak and they say stay off, call the local DNR officer. It is actually a fairly common occurance and the officer could possiblt retreive it for you. If the neighbor tags it, they will be ticketed and the deer taken from them......to likey be given to you. Seen it happen here more than once.
Good luck.

J. Morse has given you great advice. The signs could be used as a reason to go talk with them and get retrieval permission. I would not give up on it yet.

Moosetrot

If it makes you feel any better I will tell you an unbelievable event that happened to me. I own 155 acres. Yankees from Baltimore Maryland bought the farm beside mine and put a posted sign on every tree. I wasn't concerned because myself or my guest never hunted the property line, basically hunted the middle of my place. They do not live there full time, come down probably 4 times per year. When the neighbor is here he constantly rides the property line on his john deere mule. Buddy of mine shot a scrub 6 point buck from my ground shooting house at least 800 yards from the neighbor. The buck had 1 point (spike) on one side and 5 points on the other side. Great hit on the deer but as soon as he shot a rouge deerdog came and started pursuit. The deerdog from the local hunting club ended up catching the deer under my neighbors rear deck. It was baaahing like a sheep and very ugly. The neighbors sold the house and farm and now I have new yankee neighbors that fortunately I have not have contact with yet.

I have considered many times about stopping by and asking but either I don't have the nerve or I forget to. And plus the road that runs behind our house doesn't have the most trustworthy looking neighborhoods that I would like to go knocking on doors and everything.

But I will try and take that advice, since my parents know someone on that road to see if he knows the people.

I also forgot to say that I have only about two more weeks to hunt before I ship out anyways.

If it was me I would use your upcoming activation in the conversation. The worst thing they could say is "No". Go in extremely polite and you may preserve your ability to hunt your own land without worries. The best thing that could happen is just maybe you will be able to hunt their property as well.

Go for it. My .02.

Moosetrot

If you wound an animal and it crosses a property line here, not only are you allowed to go retrieve it, but you are required to go and do all you can to retrieve it.

I appreciate your service. If you want to harvest a deer in virginia before you leave, message me. Will trade you basically a guaranteed hunt in return for you protecting my freedoms. Will also pay shipping of processed meat to your family in michigan. Unfortunately the only season open is archery. If you hunt with a bow or cross bow, come on.

Bow or gun hunting. If gun hunting shoot central nervous system head, neck, or best yet high shoulder shot. Grip the no their tracks. Done right hi shoulder bust the shoulder and spine or shocks the spine enough it drops. Look it up for placement.

I do hunt with a bow and would love to go, only problem is is time and complications. Tuesday will be the 2 week mark till I leave to Missouri for boot camp and on top of that I will need to report to Camp Grayling this Saturday and stay there till Sunday which gives me about a week or so that I would have to work with. And also the whole explaining the going to someone's house that I've never met(no offense in the slightest) in a different state that I've only talked to online. So you can see my dilemma.