If it's my property, they won't be invited if I feel they are a sloppy hunter. If it's somewhere else, I just make sure I'm far enough away that they don't affect me. Dan's place in NY has a few other guys that are family friends that hunt it and don't hunt as "smart" as we do.They definitely smarten up the deer there. We just make sure that we hikein,stay away from the easily accessible and destination source stands, and we continue to encounter and kill more and bigger bucks than anyone else on the property........consistently.

There are only 2 people that hunt my place in PA with any regularity. Dan (Jawshooter) and my father. Dan hunts exactly the same way I do. Our success rates are very similar. I'm 1x buck up on him over the last 4 years, but I suspect that if you average us out over a longer period of time we will have very similar success.

My father on the other hand, is not so sensitive to the little things that we are. I love the guy to death, but he will sit ina stand when the wind is wrong, he won't follow a scent control regimen, and he likes to sleep on stand. He's my dad though and still my favorite hunting partner [8D]. He's been hunting this way since the 1960's, and he's not going to change now. His success is much lower than Dan and I, yet hunts the same property and a lot of the same stands. The deer are quickly educated to him once season starts, and change patterns based upon what stands he hunts. Luckily (for Dan and I), it's usually only our destination stands that he hunts, so Dan and I simply get into the timber to get away from the spots he pressures.