Why not just introduce yourself to your neighbor with a friendly visit, handshake and smile. Tell them that you are making the rounds visiting neighbors to put their minds at ease about gunfire from your property. Let them know you are military police with many hours of firearm safety training and have made a safe shooting area and offer them to visit to check it out and perhaps offer any suggestions (while they are there offer to let them shoot) IF they do not show intrest or get irrate then look at your options. At least you tried and if things get ugly you use your visit to your advanage. (you might record your visit)
we live about 8 miles out of the city limits, if the officer wouldve actually went out back with me I wouldve showed him the backstop, I only shot about 20 rounds and couldve dug up the steel plate and showed him 20 dents, but apparently he is friends with the neighbor, according to our other neighbor these people call the cops for everything, yet they have about 15 cars sitting in their field, junk all over the place and the electric fence, I could be wrong but I always thought that if you put up and electric fence you had to have it 6 ft off the property line or have something in between it, if my son was to touch it there would be more than 20 rounds in the backyard lol
So is this an invite for all of us to come to your back yard for a little range time???
Im not to worried about the fence right now, So I wont be digging it up anytime soon, the shooting on the other hand I will be addressing tomorrow, after several PM's and conversations tonight with people who have had issues with the same officer I plan on contacting the department tomorrow about it. Id like conformation before I shoot just because I dont want a bad reputation in the town because I have current applications in at the county and city so I dont want to make to much trouble. Its just really dishearting that on the first day of shooting a new weapon it ended like that. I try to respect my neighbors and dont shoot to early or to late in the day and have offered my newest neighbor some lessons in shooting.
This is the proper approach. If there have been issues with other folks by this same officer it needs to be addressed. I hope this all ends well for you.
It's called adverse possession, but they have to openly claim that the land is theirs (the fence might satisfy this) and pay taxes on the land as well (bet they're not doing that), etc. I believe Indiana still has this. You need to have this attended to ASAP.I beleave that is refered to as the Homestead Act/law. MOST states have done away with it.