Okay. The way I read this is, you don't own the land. Yet you get a biologist to come out and assess the deer herd? I'm sure that wasn't a free service. You're spending your time, effort and money to build up the deer herd, but for whom? THE LANDOWNER.

What happens when you get everything set up right and start seeing some good, mature deer with decent racks? SOMEBODY is going to notice. That somebody is going to tell somebody else and so on until word gets to someone with deep pockets. He'll come along and pay the landowner a goodly sum of cash that YOU won't be able to match.

Someone is going to be hunting the deer you cultivated and YOU are going to be out in the cold with no place to hunt. I've seen it in Texas, over and over and over again. I've seen it enough to know for a fact that practicing QDM on land you don't own is a fool's errand.