i am on the other side of the fence here. if i undertand this right, your BIL has been hunting the same spot for 20 years, youve been hunting it for 4 and now you want to hunt his spot?

i would be pissed if i was him, too. on less than 400 acres, the only reason he's CONSISTENTLY seeing more and better deer is because he's doing something your not. I share 300+- acres with a couple of my cousins. every year for the past 20 i get a decent buck from "my" spot. And every year they horn in a little closer, encroaching "my " area, and it's getting old. this year i found my cousins tree stand less than 50 yards from my stand. WHY?

I'm just trying to show it from a different perspective. 400 acres is small, man. All the deer he shoots could just as easily walked in front of you.

Just my .02

thanks
moose