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12-15-2011, 03:06 PM
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We had that problem back in Md with a bunch of guys who rented the farm across from me. After the first week or so of archery I found the deer were hanging around my place all the time. The farm amnager finally told 'em it was his way or the highway..If they wanted to conmtinur=e to rent the place..any buck they shot HAD to be mounted..if it didn't happen they lost their lease..just like that. All of a sudden they stopped killing all the little bucks. Took a couple or 3 years but the larger bucks started showing more often...but they still came over to my farm during hunting season....BTW..that hunting club was a bunch of guys from Pennsylvania. I asked 'em one time why they shot ALL the bucks and that it was ruining the herd. They actually told me they were renting the place..it was their money and they could do what they wanted.. I just told 'em..well I live here 24/7/365. If they wanted to rent the place next year(at 18,000 bucks per)... They wouldn't even see a buck cause I would kill 'em all..Then the area would be rid of them..the club. Then the farm manager (a long time friend)..changed their rules for 'em. and raised the rental too..
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12-29-2011, 12:12 PM
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Could be worse, the guy next to my farm lost his property to a flim flam by his in-laws. I met the new owner (the stepbrother) a few weeks ago, unfortunately. This guy announced that it would be OK if I hunted on his land and I asked if he was going to lease the property to hunt on, he said nope, anyone was free to hunt on his land or come and go as they please, it was open to any and all. Sounds an awful lot like real bad trouble to me. Allowing folks to hunt is one thing but free run of a place is a whole different matter, especially with the deer dog hunters, which are legal here. Most folks will not allow dog hunters on or near their place.
So I put up another 1/4 mile of fence including a run across a connecting logging road and another set of big concrete gate posts with a locked gate across his dirt road onto my place. He will not be back, and a small group of us neighbors are putting together a plan to buy the guy out. The old decent hunters moved all of their tree stands off his place two weeks ago for fear of being shot by a free run idiot. Yep, they guy is from town and lives 30 miles away. Instead of doing hunters a favor he has just stopped any management, feeding or crop growth for food on his place. Forethought is the same length as his foreskin. Ed
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