I think its pretty crappy of the neighbor. I know he has the right to do what he wants on his property and maybe he is saving his property for the rut. But as sportsmen,we all have certain responsibilities to do the right thing towards the deer we hunt. This means finding them or trying to find them using all available resources and helping those in need find them as well.

Hate to hear this for you WGDfarm.

I can see it both ways…..Don’t get me wrong, if my neighbors around here called me up with this situation then I’d be just like y’all are talking about and give them permission without thinking twice. However, with all the stuff that I’ve seen since I started tracking…..I can also see situations where someone might not want their property tromped over by search parties just because the neighbor decided to blast away again…. taking some half-ass marginal shot that ends up just crippling the deer…Then suddenly it’s supposed to be the neighbor responsibility to be a good guy and allow him to come over into his place with a search party and tromp down the woods in hopes that maybe the bad decision worked out……

This doesn’t have anything to do with the OP’s track were talking about at all so don’t take that the wrong way. I’m just generally speaking from my experiences of seeing any and everything hunters do. It isn’t just as cut and dry as y’all are making it. I completely agree about being good neighbors…..But there’s a fair amount of these situations that are a direct result of the hunter just lobbing a hailmary at one hoping for the best….A fair amount of calls that come into trackers are due to hunters making really bad decisions about when to shoot….and taking shots that they never should have taken in the first place…..one bad decision leads to another and they go chasing after the deer pushing it……500 yards later they hit the property line and now they need permission to keep chasing it onto the neighbors property.

Again, I do agree for the most part that we should all extend our neighbors the same courtesy that we’d want to be given. But I also can see another side to why someone might say no. It isn’t suddenly his problem because you decided to shoot the deer in the arse…. or facing straight at you…..or while it was running……or from 55 yards with a bow….or any of the other bad shots that get made, I’ve made plenty of them myself over the years so don't think I'm trying to be high and mighty about that part of it or anything like that….I’m just trying to give a little perspective to the conversation and show that it isn’t just always as black and white as the neighbor being the one that’s an arsehole.