2Arrows, does IP still have land unleased?? I'm in Nacogdoches Co. and I know alot of guys who hunt their land. I was just suprised to hear that they had land going unleased? Pretty interesting for sure. Good luck to you, sounds like ya'll have a good plan. Most of those hunting clubs on paper company land are sad. They shoot everything that walks and can't even spell QDM. There is an IP lease about 3 miles down the road from me and I have an old high school buddy who's on it. They have less than 500 acres and there are 15 families hunting it! They shoot every single deer that walks. I know some people who hunt a 450 acre (privately owned land) lease next door to it. There is only 4 people hunting that place and they killed a 137 B&C last year and a 150 class B&C this year because of their QDM. Word of those deer got back to my buddy on the IP lease and he asked me about it. In a serious straight face he asked me "how do they see and kill those big bucks? We never see anything like that." I asked him if they ever pass on any deer and he said "no". I asked him how he thought those bucks could grow if they didn't let them walk. I got the typical response, "if we don't shoot them, someone else will". He still couldn't understand how those deer could be next door but not on their lease. I asked him if he had any idea what 15 families all on 4-wheelers in the woods on only 500 acres must sound like to the deer? He said he didn't think deer paid attention to that kind of thing!!!lol

Sorry to get waaaaay off topic but I do that sometimes.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> I'm glad to hear that ya'll have a good plan and aren't going to be the typical club I described above, good luck to you! Oh, if you end up with any land in Nacogdoches Co. let me know, I know of a couple guys who'd be interested in a club like you've desribed.

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Hunting the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.