Hi folks - a bunch of you knew me as Kubota over on the QDMA site and may remember my land tour thread. I am going to try and get it going over here now...
It all started off with my Aunt and Uncle buying the property in 1976. It is a rectangular 80 acres that runs S/N in a pretty much unbroken forest of around 3000 or so acres. The property has a county roan that splits 15 acres off the south end from the rest. The N neighbor has about 30 acres of land they cleared MANY years ago that they run cattle on that is gradually being reclaimed by the forest. I remember when I was in my teens going up with my uncle to check the place out in fall/winter. He used to have an old wooden cattle trough he had set up in the woods and he put some sweet feed in it for the deer. In all the years they had it he only killed 1 small 7 pointer off of the property. He was strictly a meat hunter but he liked big horns but would not pass deer if another one was in front of him.
My uncle had a neighbor on his west side that had made a driveway that cut through a good size portion of my uncles land to go around the head of a hollow to his house which is roughly halfway along the property line on the westside and 80 feet from the property line. This neighbor was also known as the poachingest individual in the country back in those days. He shot everything he saw and deer were very scarce anywhere around. My uncle tore multiple wooden deer stands down he had built on this 80 and ran him off every chance he got. Whenever my uncle would go up to go hunting the neighbor would decide that was a great time to shoot all of his guns either all morning or all evening.
My uncle told the neighbor numerous times to move his driveway but he wouldn't do it. My uncle cut trees across it and strung wire across it so the neighbor would cut the trees up or cut the wire so 1 day my Uncle had enough and he hired a backhoe while the neighbor was gone to work and had them dig a huge hole across that driveway. The neighbor ended up having to build their own driveway across that hollow after that.
My uncle died in 1997 and my aunt never went up to the property so I would go check on it a couple times a year to make sure nobody was dumping, cutting wood or 4 wheeling on it. In December 2013 I found 2 things. A red Dodge pickup with a blown out rear tire stuck in the hole my uncle had dug across the old driveway and a realtor sign on the 15 acre side of the road. I called my aunt to tell her about the truck and the sign. She wasn't real interested in the truck but was interested in the sign. She told me she didn't have it listed but was thinking about listing it. I asked her how much and she told me how much she would sell it to me for. My wife and I made a split second decision to buy...
It all started off with my Aunt and Uncle buying the property in 1976. It is a rectangular 80 acres that runs S/N in a pretty much unbroken forest of around 3000 or so acres. The property has a county roan that splits 15 acres off the south end from the rest. The N neighbor has about 30 acres of land they cleared MANY years ago that they run cattle on that is gradually being reclaimed by the forest. I remember when I was in my teens going up with my uncle to check the place out in fall/winter. He used to have an old wooden cattle trough he had set up in the woods and he put some sweet feed in it for the deer. In all the years they had it he only killed 1 small 7 pointer off of the property. He was strictly a meat hunter but he liked big horns but would not pass deer if another one was in front of him.
My uncle had a neighbor on his west side that had made a driveway that cut through a good size portion of my uncles land to go around the head of a hollow to his house which is roughly halfway along the property line on the westside and 80 feet from the property line. This neighbor was also known as the poachingest individual in the country back in those days. He shot everything he saw and deer were very scarce anywhere around. My uncle tore multiple wooden deer stands down he had built on this 80 and ran him off every chance he got. Whenever my uncle would go up to go hunting the neighbor would decide that was a great time to shoot all of his guns either all morning or all evening.
My uncle told the neighbor numerous times to move his driveway but he wouldn't do it. My uncle cut trees across it and strung wire across it so the neighbor would cut the trees up or cut the wire so 1 day my Uncle had enough and he hired a backhoe while the neighbor was gone to work and had them dig a huge hole across that driveway. The neighbor ended up having to build their own driveway across that hollow after that.
My uncle died in 1997 and my aunt never went up to the property so I would go check on it a couple times a year to make sure nobody was dumping, cutting wood or 4 wheeling on it. In December 2013 I found 2 things. A red Dodge pickup with a blown out rear tire stuck in the hole my uncle had dug across the old driveway and a realtor sign on the 15 acre side of the road. I called my aunt to tell her about the truck and the sign. She wasn't real interested in the truck but was interested in the sign. She told me she didn't have it listed but was thinking about listing it. I asked her how much and she told me how much she would sell it to me for. My wife and I made a split second decision to buy...
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