ORIGINAL: moose1915
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
Yes, he is doing something I'm not. Hes hunting the best habitat. Every other hunter that has been on the lease with him is now hunting elsewhere. Coincidence? I think not. I know several others who have hunted there with him. All left for the same reason. 380 acres of habitat, 100 acres of which is very good habitat, 280 is so-so. He has kept the prime habitat to himself and intends to continue. I've come to terms with that. I will improve the area I hunt and ask him to stay out of my food plots etc. I don'twant in to his stand, I'd like to hang a stand 300-400 yds away in the same bottom. If he is hunting down there on the same day I would stay out. I don't think thats unreasonable but its really a moot point now.