Agree with tiguy and Danny. Guy may have had permission for 20 years and is unaware of the sale. Person trespassing isn't probably going to have a camera, mow, etc. I would put the note on the camera as the mower may not move until next year. Do you know where it is being accessed from?

If the person accesses that spot by car or truck he has to use my road / track past the boat
If by ATV he can get there by another track on the property
The previous owner did not give permission to anyone to be on the place for any reason by the way

Funny thread.

You just want to see me in a skirt
Beware what you wish for is all I can say and blindness could be a blessing

guy might be a rascal and need dealt with harshly but it wont hurt a thing to find out. rural area like that you make an enemy of somebody over something easily sorted out, you may have a whole bunch of folks not friendly toward you.

Turn them in!

To easy on them and they will just do it again.
Take it all to your place? And now they know who you are and where you live!

A conservation officer is almost a sure bet they will leave and stay gone.
One phone call

Sounds like the shooting lane and food plot are practically line of sight with the trailer and not too far from the road in. Wouldn't take a genius to figure out who called it in if the stuff was gone but not at the trailer.

if you get a grass fire from burning trash brian, your neighbors going to help you put it out?

I think I’ll take the advice of taking the camera down and leaving my phone number with a note in its place. Then take it from there. Arrange a meeting at a local diner to hand it back and sort the issue out
He will not hunt that spot though no matter what. I gave my neighbor permission to hunt in the lower part of he lets me know before he goes so we don’t get in each other’s way . Me cutting wood or testing loads while he tries to hunt sort of thing is not helpful to either of us but I am not planning on other folks being there other than him

I would talk to him here in this part of Iowa its easy to tell the property line with the fences but down there in the hills somebody may have made an honest mistake and got on the wrong property.

Good ideas. Take the camera leave a note handle in friendly manner. If he's not friendly about it, a call to the warden.

Yup

Just take all the stuff.Its on your property,let him figure it out.
When he tracks you down(if he ever does)just tell him you thought it was left by the previous owner,then ask him why the h--- he is trespassing on other peoples property,since you already know the previous owner did not give him permission.

I still wouldn't remove his camera. What will that gain you?

A phone call from the guy who put it up and an explanation.

You'd get that with a friendly note. It could be an honest mistake.

Maybe. Maybe not. If he's like me every time he checks the camera there's a pretty good picture of his face trying to get the housing open. So he may be more inclined to call and try to make peace if he knows he's been busted. Leave a friendly note and a scoundrel will ride off into the sunset on his mower with his camera and any proof he was ever there.

I'd pack it all up as well and bring it to my place and leave a weather proof note telling him your the new owner and had no idea what was going on and to simply come pick it up.

No sense dragging this out more than needed in my view, meet and greet or heave ho !

So, what's the down side to that? He'll have moved on and isn't that what Scuba wanted in the first place?

I'd at least give the guy a chance to do the right thing. I wouldn't take his stuff.

Dalton: "I want you to be nice until it's time to not be nice." - Road House

Well Scuba what's the plan?