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Old 12-21-2005 | 02:07 PM
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I am saying that it is unsportsmanlikeif you own hundreds of acres of land, do not let anyone set foot on it or track wounded deer on to it, but are always out hunting elsewhere.
unsportsmanlike? That's the craziest thing I've ever heard of.

I own 120 acres of land and don't hunt it much at all or do I let anyone else hunt it. I have it posted. I just simply don't want anyone on my land. That's why I own land........so I can do whatever the hell I want to do with it. That's why I make mortgage payments on it, that's why I pay property taxes on it, and that's why I pay school taxes on it. So I can do whatever I want to do.
Now....... I hunt 4 other different pieces of land varying in size. I have written permision to hunt all of them. I am fortunate enough (for now) that our little group is the only one that hunt them for the most part (we share the land a little bit on 1 piece of land.)

However, I went out and pursued the land to hunt. I've been "squeezed" off other pieces of land that started out the same way and ended up where the landowner gave permission to everyone and it ended up a carnival atmosphere. No problem....... I'm not going to whine about it. I'll pick up and forget about hunting there. Maybe find a new piece in the off season. The point is it's the landowners right to do what he wants.

I dont' see a problem with the guy hunting other land and posting his for nobody to hunt. If one of the landowners on a piece of land I hunt choses to do the same thing as the guy you're describing then so be it. I'll move on.

Let him hunt wherever he has permission to hunt and let him do whatever he wants with his land. You have nothing to say about either. If you don't like it............... buy some more land or find another place to hunt.
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