You were so confident in this area that you had team-mates drive down and were openly saying how you were gonna donate the meat to needy families. You had the meat given away before you even were in the bush..cocky to say the least! Only after asking permission to bring an outsider in to hunt, and having that permission denied, did the plan change.
It does have the ring of sour grapes..sorry just my opinion. These deer are not your deer, or my deer, or the neighbors deer, they are just deer. A legal and hunt-able asset put here by God above.
Perhaps if the neighbors are taking the nice deer off the land, then next year you will find out what working for a deer is..you may have to scout some land, gain new permissions, place stands etc..instead of just walking 225 yards (my 3 iron distance) out the back door, to the deer watching stand!
Again sorry if you take this bad, maybe I don't have all the details..but 1 post can pass by without comment and written off as venting..a second cries out as jealousy.
GR8....Please tell me how the "plans change" has anything to do with my story, above. Please....go ahead and say what you want.
Deer ARE a legal and huntable asset given by God. BUT...the landowner gives the permission to hunt them in a legal manner. If you're there, illegally, hey shouldn't be HUNTABLE.
So now you're going to tell me I don't know how to work hard to hunt the deer I do. All this...and you have NO IDEA of what I put into this passion. That's rich.
Why should I have to scout new land and gain new permission when everything "I'm" doing is legal and ethical......just to make way for the opposite? this is like saying the guy who hunts YOUR land at night has figured out a method that is superior to yours.....and that you'd better figure out how to take the bucks you're after in a more superior method to his. Otherwise...."sour grapes" when he spotlights and kills the deer you're after.
I said he neighbor's property was a 3-iron distance......I didn't say I hunted, there. He don't, either. Yes. I walk to a lot of places I hunt. Yes. It's cool being able to do so. No. Don't be a hater.
Am I "jealous" of these guys? Hardly.
Jeff