The first year that I hunted on the spot that I hunt now, I bought the landowners a $50 gift certificate for his favorite restaurant, for Christmas. My wife works with the landowners wife, and this is how I got permission to hunt there. I mailed the gift certificate to them with a very nice Christmas card, (I mailed it because I know that they would not take it if I gave it to them in person, thats just the way they are) When they got it iin the mail, his wife came to work the next day, and was very angry at us for thinking that I had to give them something for letting me hunt on their land. She told my wife that they would not take it and that if we didnt take it back, that that would be the last year that I would be hunting on their land. This brings up a question, what would you have done if you were in my shoes?? I tookk it back, against my will, but I know that this woman was very adament, and she meant it. The only thing that they ask of me, is that I hunt the gun season with the landowner. He had given it up, becouse he didnt have anyone to go with, and he didnt like the iodea of going by himself. If we dont get anything durring gun season, I make sure to get them a deer with my bow. That tickles them to death.