Gunny456 said:
I grew up on 40 acres or so in the hill country in Comal county. We had the river on one side and three large ranches around us. My dad would not build blinds along our fence lines and he told me to not sit on the fence lines to hunt. Our neighbors did not build blinds along the fence nor did we ever see them hunting along the fences.
My dad's reason was proper neighbor property and hunting respect and etiquette. It was common in those days.
We were on a lease of 600 acres in Blanco county in the 80's and one of the guys on the lease shot a nice buck across the fence of a neighboring ranch. He got caught and almost cost all of us to get kicked off the lease.
He simply said temptation got the best of him.
Best not to hunt on fence lines and test temptation.
Because respect and hunting etiquette are no longer important to some folks.
Just about every one of our blinds are on the fenceline - facing into our property.
I'd rather blinds be on the perimeter facing in so when I am shooting, I am shooting into my property and not from the inside out towards other's property. There is no reason I should sacrifice the use of their land simply because somebody on the other side of the fence doesn't like it. I don't mess with the land on the other side of the fence, as far as I know they don't mess with ours either. Deer jump the fence all of the time, I work to make it more attractive for them to be on my side