Or vice versa.
Fact: Every shooting range has someone's property downrange. Check and see what legal requirements are in the afflicted area.
New to Virginia - Neighbor shoots towards my property
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Or vice versa.
Fact: Every shooting range has someone's property downrange. Check and see what legal requirements are in the afflicted area.
brendonjames65
US Veteran
I don’t think others missed what the OP said about the property manager saying the neighbor is a wack-job. Perhaps the manager and the neighbor have a longstanding adversarial relationship and the die has been cast since then. The OP hasn’t really provided enough background information. It does seem like the OP doesn’t feel it necessary to talk to this neighbor based on what his manager has said. Perhaps before taking an adversarial approach, the OP can meet with the neighbor first, then he can decide how to proceed. Sometimes things are not as they appear.
YeshuaIsa53
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My attorney, when told by my Dad and I we were having buckshot fall out of the sky into the very small pond we were fishing in, advised me what to do afterwards. I got my Dad out of the boat and into his house quickly, then ran fast as I could to the gun reports. That never happened again, for some reason or another.
He said to post the entire property with violators will be prosecuted added to the signs, and he would prosecute anyone on my land. I did. No more problems. I sang into the wind that night, at the ground under me, about 20 times.
A neighbor's kid(18 year old) killed all six of our geese, who could not fly, on my property while we ate Thanksgiving dinner with my in-laws. One had his head sticking through the chain-link fence with a hole in his head. He and I had had words a few times already. He busted up the .22 and left the wood on the bank of the goose pond. He had no Father. Told his Grandfather if I ever saw his Grandson on my property with a gun again, my life would feel threatened and I would treat him like a man.
Think he somehow spent the rest of his teens in a corrective jail, because of other things he had done elsewhere. Be very careful pushing people "not right" around, and be prepared to protect your life and others at all times.
In your scenario, I would build a small goose pond. I would build a large mound of dirt behind his little range. I would have game cameras here and there. That way, you are showing him the proper way to have a place to shoot. Find where he is coming onto your property and get a video of it. My olive branches were always laughed out. "I'm not going to have some old, small bald headed %# telling ME what to do." I begged him to just stand there and wait til the county police got there, so he left then. I never hid behind the police, and never made an open threat to anyone on my property. Always went to their parents or grandparents and told them the negative side of what would happen.
Having dogs run deer off your property is all in. We sold that place. Still miss it. Will always miss it. Good luck.
He said to post the entire property with violators will be prosecuted added to the signs, and he would prosecute anyone on my land. I did. No more problems. I sang into the wind that night, at the ground under me, about 20 times.
A neighbor's kid(18 year old) killed all six of our geese, who could not fly, on my property while we ate Thanksgiving dinner with my in-laws. One had his head sticking through the chain-link fence with a hole in his head. He and I had had words a few times already. He busted up the .22 and left the wood on the bank of the goose pond. He had no Father. Told his Grandfather if I ever saw his Grandson on my property with a gun again, my life would feel threatened and I would treat him like a man.
Think he somehow spent the rest of his teens in a corrective jail, because of other things he had done elsewhere. Be very careful pushing people "not right" around, and be prepared to protect your life and others at all times.
In your scenario, I would build a small goose pond. I would build a large mound of dirt behind his little range. I would have game cameras here and there. That way, you are showing him the proper way to have a place to shoot. Find where he is coming onto your property and get a video of it. My olive branches were always laughed out. "I'm not going to have some old, small bald headed %# telling ME what to do." I begged him to just stand there and wait til the county police got there, so he left then. I never hid behind the police, and never made an open threat to anyone on my property. Always went to their parents or grandparents and told them the negative side of what would happen.
Having dogs run deer off your property is all in. We sold that place. Still miss it. Will always miss it. Good luck.
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YeshuaIsa53
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It may very well be in most scenarios and in a perfect world. LE agencies may handle some things better. Had a young man crawl over a posted gate and knock on my door in my gated and locked property. Made him leave the same way he came, then drove around to where they were stuck with chains. I was verbally assaulted by the irate man that told him to crawl over the fence with barbed wire. Told him to stop screaming at me and to get out of my face a few steps back.
He started screaming "You're assaulting me": over and over. I called the police. Went and got my neighbor I had seen out front of his business for a witness. The police actually were rude to me. My friend was an off-duty policeman who told me he could not play police while he was off-duty. Told him who to call on my behalf. Showed the two police the chains in the back of my truck I had brought to help them, when the man started screaming in my face. I felt like it was so stupid it could be a setup. Signs don't always stop people who just don't care about anything but themselves. My GSD could have bit that young man, had he been outside without me.
No more stories. Do what you have to do. I refuse to hide in my own house on my own property.
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Thank you all again for some great insight/advice. Yes I'm a LEO but not in VA - I'm aged out but the Chief likes me so I'm a reserve until he retires, he says. I plan to talk to the sheriff but I've known a few and some are more helpful than others. The range poses no threat to the dwelling, it is in a remote corner of the property but on a path to a remote lake (that had a lot of poaching going on in the past). They had to remove a few truck loads of trash before marketing the property which is another reason why I am being proactive about posting. But yes, some people see posted signs as offensive. These are mostly multigenerational farms and I'm not the most popular guy around having bought it at auction after out bidding a bunch of locals. And I'm a yankee on top of it. Some have been very nice after learning that I am going to farm and have no plans for a vineyard or wedding venue. I'm going to assume the range was placed there out of ignorance and not as a threat but that doesn't mean I want to catch a round.
twodog max
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Before escalating the situation my suggestion is to go introduce yourself to the neighbor and talk about generalities and get a handle on the neighbor. It is entirely possible that the situation can be defused without the target even being mentioned. That IMO is worth a try. All other options are still available later.
Pisgah
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So -- you know the guy has a range, you don't like its location, but he hasn't done any shooting yet. And you haven't talked to him, since someone else thinks it's a bad idea? And folks are already telling you to call a lawyer, or worse yet, the Sheriff?
Boy, you are going to make a lot of friends in your new neighborhood...
Boy, you are going to make a lot of friends in your new neighborhood...
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