I SAY......BACK OFF!!! GET OUT!!! Find someplace else to hunt. If you own a frickin' golf course you should have more than ample resources to find and hunt other land. 350 acres is NOT enough for that many hunters to be hunting. Not even close! These guys have been hunting that same land for decades and if they have been "watching" it for the landowner then so frickin' be it. Who are you to come in and piss on their parade? You know how many times I have asked permission and been granted it by a landowner only to find out that there is already someone else who has permission to hunt it as well? I bow out and find something else, that's hunting etiquette IMO. Many landowners don't hunt and don't have the first clue what hunting involves...especially bowhunting. If the landowners are just nice good ole boys they will let anyone in to hunt but that doesn't mean that you should!!! You should have let it go! You said yourself, "I truly feel the landowner has been taken advantage of. He has no idea about hunting or the work that goes into it pre-season (putting up stands/scouting). we invested a lot of time on that land to have those people do that to us" What about what the hell you did to them!!!! THEY have 20 frickin' years invested in the property butthead! You should have recognized this and LET IT GO!!!
"And I don't want to seem like we want to take over the land totally, but Ummmmmm I guess I do. They deserve it!!" That comment makes me want to frickin' puke. You suck! So you and Biff and the boys from the country club want to annex farmer Ted's property to convert into the Beverly Hills Bowhunting Club...nevermind that Cooter and his sons have been hunting the land for 20 years and built lifelong memories there, you have the Conquistador mentality and manifest destiny makes it yours...you go Donald Trump. Bottom line is you suck...really bad!!!<img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle>