Hunter erects a raised stand directly on the property boundary

We have built in a very rural area. Behind our property is farmland followed by a lake and a small forest. In short, only deer, wild boars, and the like live behind us. Recently, the area was leased to a new hunter. He has now erected a hunting stand directly on our fence. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with this, but I always thought that hunters are generally not allowed to shoot near residential houses. Isn't there a minimum distance or something similar? I basically have no problem with it, but I feel somewhat uncomfortable at the thought that someone is shooting live ammunition right next to my house. What do you think?

Well, I think I would be more concerned if the hunting stand were about 50 meters away from the property boundary. Right next to your boundary, one should assume that the shooting direction always points away from your boundary towards his leased land.

Well, I think I would be more concerned if the hunting stand were about 50 m away from the property boundary.

They also exist, after all. :eek:

I would share your feeling (I myself live in a rural area), but the hunter only has to observe boundary distances with his hunting stand at most - if required by the state building code. Otherwise, the rule is: he may hunt as he likes. If he stands right at the garden fence and thinks he has to fire 148 shots from there, then you have to accept that. In the past, there used to be distances to residential buildings, today the only rule is that hunting is not allowed within enclosed areas. But that is probably not the case for you.

P.S. Shooting direction towards residential buildings is always prohibited.

We built in a very rural area. Behind our property is farmland followed by a lake and a small forest. In short, behind us there are only deer, wild boars, and the like. Recently, the area was leased to a new hunter. He has now erected a hunting stand directly on our fence. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with this, but I had always thought that hunters are basically not allowed to shoot near residential houses. Is there no minimum distance or something similar?

I faintly remember deer visits, fence construction, and the right to swing:

We built in the outer area. Three sides border three different farmers. The right to swing applied. Already when purchasing, we were told that the area is designated for future farming. Accordingly, we also received the building permit. Meanwhile, the entire street has been declared building land. So we are no longer in an outer area. Theoretically, the right to swing no longer applies. At least we are unsure. Since we have a relatively cheeky deer, we now have to put up a game fence. But of course, we want to place it as close as possible to the boundary. The three neighbors have not changed and no one has built immediately next to us yet.

Didn’t we conclude that your fence would have to maintain a certain distance from the actual boundary, meaning “directly behind the fence” would practically still be on your land (?) A hunting stand is, to my knowledge, a "hunting facility" and probably not an object regulated by building law as such. In forests, I often see hunting stands standing very close to fences. Could the hunting lessee be under the mistaken impression that your residential house is legally a forestry house? Possibly, depending on the time of day, the discharge of firearms must comply with a limit of 35db ;-)

Hunter here. Coordination on where the hunting facilities are located must only be done with the landowner. You moved to the countryside, and that simply comes with it; if it’s a field, the farmer will fertilize right up to the edge of his field/your fence... As someone already wrote earlier, when firing a shot, it is of course crucial to pay close attention to where you are shooting, i.e., at an existing bullet trap, and only (!) natural ground counts as such. If there are buildings or similar in the shooting direction, shooting is not allowed.

Most hunters nowadays hunt with silencers, so you should generally not have problems with noise – but anyway, it’s not like shots are fired every day ;) A shot every few days, and mostly alternating from different stands.

My recommendation: Talk to him, let him explain things to you, it’s really interesting, and maybe you’ll get a venison saddle out of it ;) There’s nothing better than meat from right outside your doorstep!