[QUOTE=iSnipe;3562429]I don't even care to read the others' reply, as I know what to expect by now, so I'll just give you my .02 cents worth...

It's YOUR lease! Any deer found on that property is YOURS!

Had it been on public ground, it would be your friend's buck.

Now if you keep the buck, of which in my opinion is yours anyway, and your friend decides he wants nothing more of you, then what kind of friend was he anyway? If he was a true friend, then he could see that it was YOU that spent your hard earned money on the land to lease and NOT him!

If I was that guy, I'd tell you all about it and "ask" if I could have it. I would not assume I could keep it. If you said "No" and explain why, I then may offer to buy it from you.

In no way would I think it's mine in that circumstance.

Good luck coming up with a solution.

iSnipe[/QUOTE

I disagee, Just because the guy has paid for the lease does not give him rights to own everything on the land... Hell I own my land and if I had someone on their rabbit hunting or something and they found a dead buck like that and wanted to keep it I would say go for it--they found it and I didn't not me.. For heaven sake it was buck that the lease holder didn't even shoot... Like others have said in this post the you "so called" didn't read the lease holder wouldn't have found it anyways... It sounds like to me that the lease holder is slight baby and is the type of guy that is "my way or the highway"!! Those types don't make for good frends and for sure not good for hunting buddies..