ballastictip, sorry to hear of your loss, but i have to ask this, is there anything preventing you from HUNTING, not just sitting in a blind and waiting for a deer to come by a planted plot? i am not trying to sound snotty, but under qdm so much of what i have read seems to take the hunting out of deer season, where we become baiters sitting in a blind overlooking a food plot or bait pile. your deer will still be there, go out and find them, if there isn' t anything preventing you from hunting adjacent property. plus, you still have one tract on your own lease to hunt, too. deer probably travel through it, even if the property is being burned.